2026 Philly Train & Create

🗓️ Saturday-Sunday, March 28-29 | 9AM-4PM
💰 Sliding scale, $125-$300
📍 CHI Movement Arts Center

PDS X BDF

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PDS X BDF 🪩

Bates Dance Festival’s 1st ever intensive in Philly is in partnership with Philly Dance Share! Offering inspired dance training and creative exchange, this two-day intensive is designed for intermediate and advanced dancers.

Sliding Scale Registration
from $125.00

Intensive Schedule

Saturday, March 28:

9-10:30AM Train with Chelsea Murphy
11AM-12:30PM Train with Miles Yeung
12:30-1:30PM Lunch
1:30-4PM Create with Raphael Xavier


Sunday, March 29:

9-10:30AM Train with Miles Yeung
11AM-12:30PM Train with Chelsea Murphy
12:30-1:30PM Lunch
1:30-4PM Create with Tania Isaac

Artists

  • Chelsea Murphy

    Chelsea Murphy is a Philadelphia based dance maker and therapist. Since completing the Headlong Performance Institute in 2012, she has created and performed with Pig Iron Theatre Company (Superterranean, 2019, Poor Judge, 2024), Lily Kind (Wolfthicket, 2021, I've got a tape... 2024), Nichole Canuso Dance Company (The Garden, 2024, Lunar Retreat, 2025), Chloe Marie (For Now presented by PDP, 2024), Magda San Millan (Shame Symposium, 2016), and the Vaudevillian’s (Philadelphia’s Queer and Femme-led Mummer Brigade). Her work has been presented by FringeArts, Urban Movement Arts, DanceNOW @ Joe's Pub, JACKnyc, and Miami Light Project.

  • Miles Yeung

    Originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Miles Yeung-Tieu is a dance artist currently based in Philadelphia, PA. His performance credits include Brian Sander’s JUNK, Stacey Tookey’s Still Motion, Helen Simoneau Danse, La Biennale di Venezia’s Arsenale della Danza, and the New York City production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Miles has worked with international dance artists including Ismael Ivo (Brazil, Italy), Isabel Lewis (Germany), and Douglas Becker (Belgium) while studying and performing across Europe. Miles received his training at the University of the Arts, completing both his BFA in Modern Performance ('14) with honors and MFA in Dance ('19). He currently dances with Brooklyn-based company Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and is a collaborator with Mark Caserta's BIGkid Dance.

  • Raphael Xavier

    Raphael Xavier is an award winning artist from Wilmington, Delaware and currently lives in Philadelphia. He is a self taught Breaking practitioner since 1983. In a continuation and extension of his craft he has taught a technique called Ground Core. A movement technique that makes the Breaking form accessible to any moving body and is incorporated in the vocabulary he uses in the dance work. His company represents Breaking and its roots as his work sheds light on the sustainability and longevity of the form. Raphael is currently a Lecturer at Princeton University teaching: Intro to Breaking and Comparative Hip Hop dance practice and Aesthetics.

  • Tania Isaac

    Tania Isaac is a former Pew Fellow and McDowell fellow; a choreographer, dancer, writer who has led international performances while creating models for thoughtful, audience-centered engagement. During that time, she also presented papers, publications and projects on creative process in the arts and its potential applications across multiple fields.  In addition to numerous independent projects, Tania has been a member of David Dorfman Dance, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Urban Bushwomen and a collaborator with Emily Johnson/Catalyst. Her company, TaniaIsaacDance has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, The National Performance Network, and The Independence Foundation & Bates Dance Festival, among others. She is a former MANCC Fellow, Pew Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Tania holds a Bachelor of Science -Dance from UW-Madison, an MFA from Temple University and is currently completing an MPA from University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute for Government.

Class Descriptions

  • This class is about calling our attention back to the present moment through sensing, moving, and relating. We will use mindful movement, playful training, and improvisation to counteract the effects of the attention economy on our minds and bodies. The goal of this class is for you to experience presence, connection, warmth and wakefulness in your body and with others. Participants can expect a rigorous warm up practice, floorwork, and creative prompts in couples or groups. Please email me with any questions or curiosities about the class for more information :) ChelseaMurphy.Moves@gmail.com.

  • This class begins with a warm-up that includes a combination of structured movement exercises and improvisational tasks, promoting stability, mobility, and dynamism. Class will then quickly move into phrase work that challenges dancers to engage with weight, tone, texture, musicality, and form. This class is based on Miles's experience in contemporary, modern, and post-modern companies and is designed to provide a rigorous practice where dancers can bring their own histories into the space and multiply their potentiality. 

  • This workshop offers a unique approach to blending various styles of movement to find personal expression by focusing on connecting movement from shared practiced vocabulary such as hip hop, contemporary, pedestrian movement and life experiences for authenticity. 

  • Description coming soon!

REGISTER

2026 Philly Train & Create

Sliding Scale Registration
from $125.00

FAQs

  • Currently we are only allowing registration for the full intensive. Drop ins will open on March 21st if there are spots available!

  • This intensive is designed for intermediate and advanced dancers.

  • Yes, contact us about setting up a payment plan via Venmo or Paypal. Our email is phillydanceshare [at] gmail [dot] com.

    • Let us know by March 7th (3 weeks prior to start of intensive)- refund of 100%

    • Let us know by March 14th (2 weeks prior to start of intensive)- refund of 50%

    • Any cancellation less than 2 weeks before the intensive, your payment will be applied as a donation to PDS/intensive teachers.