Class Calendar
PDS offers classes:
Mondays 7-8:30 PM @ Mascher Space
Wednesdays 10-11:30 AM @ Mascher Space
Thursdays 7-8:30 PM @ & Space
Saturdays 11AM-12:30 PM @ & Space
Classes are pay-what-you-can and no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds. Please contact us if you have any questions about taking class! Please register for class online (by selecting the class). Scroll down for the class schedule in list form, or peruse through the calendar to the right!
Pricing
Video by Rodney Murray.
We use a pay-what-you-can-model (PWYC) where no one is turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
Please register for class in advance! When registering, select your payment amount or $0 for NOTAFLOF.
How does PDS use class fees?
We use class fees to firstly, pay for the studio rental for the respective class and secondly, to compensate the teacher! Additional funds will be used for future studio rentals and additional expenses.
Refund Policy
Class payments are non-refundable, but we can apply your payment towards any other class you would like to take! Please let us know via email before class starts in order to use your payment for another class in the future.
UPCOMING CLASSES
UPCOMING CLASSES
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #5
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Yuki Ishiguro- Contemporary Flow: Floorwork & Intention
Thursday 9/10
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION:
This class introduces contemporary dance techniques that Yuki Ishiguro developed through 15 years of professional experience as a dancer and choreographer in New York City. The class focuses on isolation, fluid transitions, weight shifts, and dynamic use of space. Drawing from his background in breakdance, Ishiguro also introduces his original floorwork method, which uses gravity, momentum, and the natural articulation of the joints to create fluid transitions from standing to the floor and back again. Beyond developing physical technique, dancers will apply these ideas to contemporary movement phrases while exploring intention, breath, timing, and the direction of energy.
Concepts drawn from Japanese movement philosophy and aesthetics—including ma (space and time), in-yō (the interplay of opposing forces), ryūdōbi (the beauty of fluid movement), and jo-ha-kyū (gradual development, acceleration, and conclusion)—will be introduced as practical tools that can be understood through the body rather than as abstract theories.
This teaching method is based on Ishiguro’s academic research, which organizes contemporary dance through a framework of sixteen Japanese philosophical and aesthetic concepts. In 2025, the project was the only arts-based research selected for funding by Montclair State University and received official support from the university. Following peer review, the research has been accepted for publication in Dance Education in Practice and is scheduled to appear in 2027.
Originally from Japan, Ishiguro holds an MFA in Dance from Montclair State University and is the founder and artistic director of Yu.S.Artistry. He received the Ellen Forman Memorial Award in 2024 and was selected for a Cannonball-supported cohort as part of the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His work has been presented at Lincoln Center, Queens Theater and the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. In Bucks County, he developed a collaboration with the Michener Art Museum and presented a performance centered on cultural exchange between Japan and the United States supported by Japan Foundation. As a performer, Ishiguro toured Africa with Catapult Entertainment. He was also selected as one of seven dancers to perform in a work by Emery LeCrone, known for her choreography for New York City Ballet, alongside dancers affiliated with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Martha Graham Dance Company. As an educator, Ishiguro has served as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University, choreographed work for students at Drexel University, and taught workshops at Manhattanville College, Coker University, Nazareth University, and other institutions.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: yu.s.artistry_official
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #5
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #6
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Harlee Trautman- Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT)
Thursday 10/22
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) class with Harlee invites dancers into an exploration of flow, grounding, and expressive range. Through spontaneously composed phrases that respond to the dancers in the room, we will begin on the ground and build toward locomotive dancing.
Together we will access the mobility of the trunk and torso, explore the complex intelligence of the ball-and-socket joints, and cultivate embodied and spatial awareness that supports both the pursuit of excellence and the prevention of injury or unnecessary strain.
Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the framework for dance and teaching movement developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. Harlee has been an advanced student of Spiral Body Techniques® since 2016, and is part of the inaugural cohort of certified instructors (2023).
Instagram: @trauty528
LEVEL: Intermediate
This class is geared toward intermediate-advanced movement artists, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities.
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #6
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #7
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Madelyn Wansong-dart, glide, swirl, and fly
Thursday 10/29
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION:
We will begin on the floor, discovering movement from our center. As we grow from the ground, we will build momentum and propel through space, using our hands and feet as highways guiding energy from the ground through our bodies. We will dart, glide, swirl, and fly; eating up space and toying with gravity. Phrases will be a scaffold to hold our individual play and spatial games will re-orient our mind’s understanding of the movement.
LEVEL: Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #7
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #8
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Frankie: Form + Flow
DESCRIPTION:
This contemporary class is organized to induce flow state within a dance practice: building steadily through sequences and tuning towards innate body-mind intelligence. Dancers will call upon somatic, contemporary/modern, floorwork, and improvisation techniques to achieve articulate and expressive dancing.
Class consists of various combinations that inhabit seemingly complex spatial patterning and weight shifts. One can expect to harness their attention, strength, and momentum through expansive release weighted, multi-directional movement that motors in and out of the floor. Class asks for full physicality and values individual/group investigative time to work through movement skills and discuss mechanics. Modifications are always welcome/suggested. Let's get after it!
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @frankly_spoken
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #8
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #9
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #9
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #10
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Madelyn Wansong-dart, glide, swirl, and fly
Thursday 10/29
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION:
We will begin on the floor, discovering movement from our center. As we grow from the ground, we will build momentum and propel through space, using our hands and feet as highways guiding energy from the ground through our bodies. We will dart, glide, swirl, and fly; eating up space and toying with gravity. Phrases will be a scaffold to hold our individual play and spatial games will re-orient our mind’s understanding of the movement.
LEVEL: Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #10
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #11
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #4
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Una Yamamoto- Experimental Contemporary Choreography and Embodiment
Thursday 10/8
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION:
We're so back!!! Elongating, mirroring, losing our balance, gluing ourselves to the air and the ground. Come join a class with infinite interpretive opportunities. Fun framework of choreography offered - but the space is entirely your own. We’ll do some fun warmups where we get used to our own presence and absence. Slipstreaming, shadowing ourselves and echoing each other. Then we'll jump into a short combo. I’m super informal!! There will be lots of laughing! Come have fun:-) :-) Let's all be movers in our own ways :-) All ambient and outer-space like music and sounds by me.
OPEN TO EVERY HUMAN!!
LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate
Instagram: @unayamamoto
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Philly Dance Share Town Hall
Philly Dance Share Town Hall
Come join us at Studio 34 for our first Philly Dance Share Town Hall! We want to hear from you!
October 7th, 6-8pm
What do you want to see more of?
What are you curious about?
What do you love about PDS?
What do you want to see for PDS and for the dance community at large in Philly!
Open to ALL!
This event is free, please RSVP below and choose the $0 option to let us know you’re coming. Payment options are for donations if you so choose.
We ❤️ you!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this event.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs.
ACCESS: The Studio 34 lounge is up 1 steep flight of stairs with about 20 steps. There is no elevator available.
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #4
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #3
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Frankie: Form + Flow
DESCRIPTION:
This contemporary class is organized to induce flow state within a dance practice: building steadily through sequences and tuning towards innate body-mind intelligence. Dancers will call upon somatic, contemporary/modern, floorwork, and improvisation techniques to achieve articulate and expressive dancing.
Class consists of various combinations that inhabit seemingly complex spatial patterning and weight shifts. One can expect to harness their attention, strength, and momentum through expansive release weighted, multi-directional movement that motors in and out of the floor. Class asks for full physicality and values individual/group investigative time to work through movement skills and discuss mechanics. Modifications are always welcome/suggested. Let's get after it!
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @frankly_spoken
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!