Class Calendar
PDS offers classes:
Tuesdays 7-8:30 PM @ Mascher Space
Wednesdays 10-11:30 AM @ Mascher Space
Thursdays 7-8:30 PM @ CHI MAC
Saturdays 1-2:30 PM @ CHI MAC
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
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 do we 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
Kate Seethaler- saturation points
Saturday 9/13/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: utilizing contemporary dance vocabulary, improvisational scores, and brief meditative practices we will dip into our bodies--submerging, repelling, drenching, floating, soaking. we will approach each moment, each experience as an opportunity to titrate our own level of absorption with respect to the task at hand. a meta-practice; cultivating your autonomy within the context of a "technique class." how much more/less can you take in? what else can you accept? you good? alright.
let's hydrate ourselves through movement. join me in this experiment!
LEVEL: open. previous contemporary dance experience a plus but not a requirement.
Photo by Jessica Brown.
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #3
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #3
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
mikah simone/bd- I’m the love of your life (September)
Thursday 9/18/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: I’m the love of your life is a contemporary technique dance class exploring the momentum that comes with loving and falling in love with yourself. Through this practice, we seek to somatically understand how the phrase “I am the love of your life” can be turned inward and become a tool in interrogating, observing, and unraveling the oppressive systems we’ve learned and continually perpetuate. Through personal reflection, we will individually use this somatic experience to understand both the questions as well as the ease of experiencing this kind of self love.
In this class we will begin with floorwork, explore and define momentum with a loose movement phrase and create solo phrases defining this feeling.
Masks encouraged.
As part of this new fancy 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!
Raylá White-Spraggins- Sensual Release: A Movement-Based Sensuality Practice
Saturday 9/20/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Sensual Release is a guided movement practice focused on slow, intentional motion. Rooted in somatic techniques, self-contact, and improvisation, this session supports a deeper connection to your body and your sensual expression.
In this class, you will:
Move through slow, full-body sequences designed to increase awareness and release tension
Explore guided improvisation and breathwork to support embodied presence
Practice self-touch and body mapping to cultivate comfort and sensory connection
You are encouraged to move in ways that feel authentic and supportive, with full permission to modify, pause, or opt out at any time.
Who this is for:
This class is ideal for anyone looking to slow down, reconnect with their sensuality, and release physical or emotional tension through embodied movement. No dance or movement experience is required.
LEVEL: Open
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #4
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #4
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
mik phillips- contemporary forms: roadkill/rigor mortis/resurrection
Thursday 9/25/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: we'll be moving in and out of contact with ourselves, the floor and each other while moving/thinking/processing the concepts and bodily responses to dying. this class will focus on the concepts of roadkill, rigor mortis, and resurrection by means of guided improvisation, abstraction, connection and phrase material. together, we'll aim to hold the heaviness, lightness, the unknown, excitement, fear, and the play inside of living while dying.
LEVEL: while any experience level will be able to engage with the improvisational and conversational aspects of class, the phrase material will likely be most comfortable for intermediate level movers with experience in learning set material. however, anyone with an open mind and willingness to try should come anyway, we can talk about ways to engage with set material from different experience levels in the moment.
As part of this new fancy 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!
PDP x PDS Workshop #1- Adam Kerbel
Saturday, September 27, 10AM–12PM
@ Mascher Space (1170 S Broad St)
Leaving things unfinished
Inspired by our residency time together, I offer this question: what am I trying to capture when I’m making a dance? For this session, we will spend time generating material from scratch, iterating on it, and then turning our focus towards the environment we’re working in. Rather than pinning down the dance we’re busy making, we’ll incorporate lighting, space, and playful naughtyness to provoke movement compositions that are layered responses to what we navigate more broadly. I see this session in relief to the pace of Fringe season; an invitation to go somewhere else from here.
Kate Seethaler- saturation points #2
Saturday 9/27/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: utilizing contemporary dance vocabulary, improvisational scores, and brief meditative practices we will dip into our bodies--submerging, repelling, drenching, floating, soaking. we will approach each moment, each experience as an opportunity to titrate our own level of absorption with respect to the task at hand. a meta-practice; cultivating your autonomy within the context of a "technique class." how much more/less can you take in? what else can you accept? you good? alright.
let's hydrate ourselves through movement. join me in this experiment!
LEVEL: open. previous contemporary dance experience a plus but not a requirement.
Photo by Jessica Brown.
As part of this new fancy 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!
PDP x PDS Workshop #2- Viola Lévai
Sunday, September 28, 1-3PM
@ Mascher Space (1170 S Broad St)
Meeting point
I would like to invite you for a movement workshop which is inspired by the time I spent in Philadelphia. As a Hungarian artist, I'm curious what arises to me, how can I channel it to my mody and how can I channel back for the people. I'm curious how we can meet in the universal language of movement and awareness to each other and to space.
PDP x PDS Workshop #3- Emiliya Toncheva
Monday, September 29, 6-8PM
@ Mascher Space (1170 S Broad St)
Moved by Questions
This improvisational contemporary dance workshop invites participants to let questions be the motor of their dance. Instead of following instructions, we’ll generate questions—opening doors to new sensations, perspectives, and possibilities of movement. We’ll explore different kinds of questions: those about sensation, quality of movement, and mapping of the body as if we were inhabiting it for the very first time. Questions don’t necessarily ask for solid answers—they serve as tools for opening space for exploration and curiosity.
Inspired by the choreographic practices of Berlin-based Anna Nowicka and Sweden-based Israel Aloni.
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #5
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #5
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #6
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #6
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #7
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #7
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Megan Bridge- Widening the Circle: Composing Somatically #1
Thursday 10/16/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Widening the Circle, a movement improvisation class open to all levels, is an invitation into movement, mindfulness, and presence. Choreographer and performer Megan Bridge’s performance, teaching, and research centers around consciousness & attention in the embodied, moving self. This class will guide students to heighten perception and use all their senses, accessing their own phenomenological experience and using it as the very material of their own performance. Formal dance training is not required, but participants should be comfortable in their bodies and, ideally, have some kind of regular physical practice.
Megan Bridge’s teaching draws on her own decades-long investigations into bodywork, somatics, dancing improvisationally, and her intensive study with masters of improvised dance such as Brigitta Herrmann, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Manfred Fischbeck, and Merian Soto.
LEVEL: Open
As part of this new fancy 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!
Megan Bridge- Widening the Circle: Composing Somatically #2
Saturday 10/18/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Widening the Circle, a movement improvisation class open to all levels, is an invitation into movement, mindfulness, and presence. Choreographer and performer Megan Bridge’s performance, teaching, and research centers around consciousness & attention in the embodied, moving self. This class will guide students to heighten perception and use all their senses, accessing their own phenomenological experience and using it as the very material of their own performance. Formal dance training is not required, but participants should be comfortable in their bodies and, ideally, have some kind of regular physical practice.
Megan Bridge’s teaching draws on her own decades-long investigations into bodywork, somatics, dancing improvisationally, and her intensive study with masters of improvised dance such as Brigitta Herrmann, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Manfred Fischbeck, and Merian Soto.
LEVEL: Open
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #8
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #8
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #9
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #9
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Kayliani Sood- Are You Down?
Thursday 9/11/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: This class is an experiment of stylistic fusion; we will explore the interplay of house footwork, lofting, and contemporary floorwork. Students are invited to explore foundational aspects of each style as distinct and related forms. Curious intricacies arise in the rhythm, flow, and connectivity between. Experience in all of these styles is not necessary to join, but comfortability with one technique is recommended.
LEVEL: Intermediate
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #2
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #2
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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 Desimine- Preparing for Performance
Saturday 9/6/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: What do you need to feel present, available, and prepared to perform in front of an audience?
In this workshop I will share some grounding techniques and tools for mental and physical preparation for performance, drawing from my own experiences as a dancer. Any performer who uses their body on stage will be able to benefit from these tools!
In addition to me sharing some practices that I personally enjoy and find effective, we will work together and in small groups to devise exercises that will help prepare you for the demands of a specific performance you may have coming up… (and if you don’t have a performance coming up, you could think of one you’ve done in the past!)
Together let's explore, in a supportive and collaborative environment, how it feels to be prepared and available for performance-- and how to consistently access that physical and mental state.
LEVEL: Open to all levels of movement experience
As part of this new fancy 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!
Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet
Thursday 9/4/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Come join us in Intermediate Ballet to experience this dance form in a fun and contemporary way. This class subverts the norms of ballet being about perfectionism; experience it through a dramatic, somatic and playful lens. Experience how ballet can make you feel beautiful and aligned in your body!
LEVEL: Intermediate
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #1
DESCRIPTION: This intermediate contemporary class invites exploration through guided improvisation to prepare a supple, responsive body and deepen connection to sensation. Emphasizing floorwork, we’ll use push/pull/fold modalities to move fluidly in and out of the floor, focusing on use of the spine, transitions, and power. Dynamic phrase work will offer space for play, choice-making, and the development of one’s artistic voice.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #1
DESCRIPTION: Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices designed to be strung together and aimed towards a communal redistribution of energy.
Inspired by music, trees, summer, sensory systems, film, & much more!
LEVEL: Intentionally open to all
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
mikah simone/bd- I'm the Love of Your Life
Saturday June 28th, 2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: I’m the love of your life is a contemporary technique dance class exploring the momentum that comes with loving and falling in love with yourself. Through this practice, we seek to somatically understand how the phrase “I am the love of your life” can be turned inward and become a tool in interrogating, observing, and unraveling the oppressive systems we’ve learned and continually perpetuate. Through personal reflection, we will individually use this somatic experience to understand both the questions as well as the ease of experiencing this kind of self love.
In this class we will begin with floorwork, explore and define momentum with a loose movement phrase and create solo phrases defining this feeling.
Masks encouraged.
As part of this new fancy 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!
Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #8
DESCRIPTION: the lowest hum. a buzz. going on and on and on and on and on. the part that holds a song together such that trilling frequencies may layer and flit atop. also a type of bee. a device of state surveillance. an annoying person.
each class in this series will dive into a different angle of droning research. themes include: a deep listening dance party, the anatomy of the ear, the physics of sound waves, the buoyancy of the hyoid bone, the bagpipe, resistance songs, tuning our bodies (as if we were to play a concerto)... and more. we’ll use both improvisation and set movement phrases to enter into long-form repetition scores, repeating repeating and repeating until the repetition itself tells us what to next layer onto ourselves and with each other.
NOTE: Masks required + provided at the door (kn95 or higher)
LEVEL: all levels with openness to choreography (with modification options, both of the steps and of the learning process). if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email lu at ludonovan8@gmail.com.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo by Caitlin Chung.
As part of this new fancy 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!
C. Woods: Soul Groove Flow- Class Series- Class #8
DESCRIPTION: This a contemporary series that focuses on the integration of House, West African, and floor work elements. We will ignite the power of our vessels with a fully embodied improvisation. Transmuting movement modes to meaningful applications to ground your mind and invigorate spirit. Let's flesh out rhythmic possibilities in luscious phrase work to scores of R&B, Soul and everything in-between.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Michelle Slavik- Movement Alchemy
Saturday June 21st, 2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Class will blend modern and contemporary styles with the intention of finding joy in movement while also building warmth and strength in the body. Class will encourage movers to find their authentic movement voice within improvisation and phrase work.
Modifications will be provided to make movement accessible for all.
LEVEL: Open
As part of this new fancy 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!
Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #7
DESCRIPTION: the lowest hum. a buzz. going on and on and on and on and on. the part that holds a song together such that trilling frequencies may layer and flit atop. also a type of bee. a device of state surveillance. an annoying person.
each class in this series will dive into a different angle of droning research. themes include: a deep listening dance party, the anatomy of the ear, the physics of sound waves, the buoyancy of the hyoid bone, the bagpipe, resistance songs, tuning our bodies (as if we were to play a concerto)... and more. we’ll use both improvisation and set movement phrases to enter into long-form repetition scores, repeating repeating and repeating until the repetition itself tells us what to next layer onto ourselves and with each other.
NOTE: Masks required + provided at the door (kn95 or higher)
LEVEL: all levels with openness to choreography (with modification options, both of the steps and of the learning process). if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email lu at ludonovan8@gmail.com.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo by Caitlin Chung.
As part of this new fancy 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!
C. Woods: Soul Groove Flow- Class Series- Class #7
DESCRIPTION: This a contemporary series that focuses on the integration of House, West African, and floor work elements. We will ignite the power of our vessels with a fully embodied improvisation. Transmuting movement modes to meaningful applications to ground your mind and invigorate spirit. Let's flesh out rhythmic possibilities in luscious phrase work to scores of R&B, Soul and everything in-between.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Lian Long Xuan- Floorwork Concepts
Saturday June 14th, 2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Creating a holistic and organic environment for floorwork that suits all dancers regardless of background. It aims to advance your freestyle and choreography, helping you to discover your approach.
In this class, you will learn:
- Repertoires to familiarise yourself with the floor
- A series of movement suggestions to increase your vocabulary in floorwork
- Various ideation and concepts to add depth to your floorwork
- Improv exercises to apply your knowledge and gain confidence in your floorwork.
LEVEL: Comfortable with, or wishes to explore more floorwork.
As part of this new fancy 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!
Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #6
DESCRIPTION: the lowest hum. a buzz. going on and on and on and on and on. the part that holds a song together such that trilling frequencies may layer and flit atop. also a type of bee. a device of state surveillance. an annoying person.
each class in this series will dive into a different angle of droning research. themes include: a deep listening dance party, the anatomy of the ear, the physics of sound waves, the buoyancy of the hyoid bone, the bagpipe, resistance songs, tuning our bodies (as if we were to play a concerto)... and more. we’ll use both improvisation and set movement phrases to enter into long-form repetition scores, repeating repeating and repeating until the repetition itself tells us what to next layer onto ourselves and with each other.
NOTE: Masks required + provided at the door (kn95 or higher)
LEVEL: all levels with openness to choreography (with modification options, both of the steps and of the learning process). if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email lu at ludonovan8@gmail.com.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo by Caitlin Chung.
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C. Woods: Soul Groove Flow- Class Series- Class #6
DESCRIPTION: This a contemporary series that focuses on the integration of House, West African, and floor work elements. We will ignite the power of our vessels with a fully embodied improvisation. Transmuting movement modes to meaningful applications to ground your mind and invigorate spirit. Let's flesh out rhythmic possibilities in luscious phrase work to scores of R&B, Soul and everything in-between.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
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Vyette Tiya- Full Score: Contemporary Grooves
Saturday June 7th, 2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION:This class is all about creative choices, musicality, and performativity.
We’ll begin by generating heat and conditioning our bodies through a guided warm-up. Then we’ll play with sequences across the floor, blending contemporary patterns with grooves, polyrhythm, and isolations. Finally, we’ll learn a dynamic phrase and add variations to it (repetition, levels, speed, etc.). We’ll embody and perform this phrase with different musical/sonic ideas.
Class will be accompanied with live music by Daniel Sohn.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #5
DESCRIPTION: the lowest hum. a buzz. going on and on and on and on and on. the part that holds a song together such that trilling frequencies may layer and flit atop. also a type of bee. a device of state surveillance. an annoying person.
each class in this series will dive into a different angle of droning research. themes include: a deep listening dance party, the anatomy of the ear, the physics of sound waves, the buoyancy of the hyoid bone, the bagpipe, resistance songs, tuning our bodies (as if we were to play a concerto)... and more. we’ll use both improvisation and set movement phrases to enter into long-form repetition scores, repeating repeating and repeating until the repetition itself tells us what to next layer onto ourselves and with each other.
NOTE: Masks required + provided at the door (kn95 or higher)
LEVEL: all levels with openness to choreography (with modification options, both of the steps and of the learning process). if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email lu at ludonovan8@gmail.com.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo by Caitlin Chung.
As part of this new fancy 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!
C. Woods: Soul Groove Flow- Class Series- Class #5
DESCRIPTION: This a contemporary series that focuses on the integration of House, West African, and floor work elements. We will ignite the power of our vessels with a fully embodied improvisation. Transmuting movement modes to meaningful applications to ground your mind and invigorate spirit. Let's flesh out rhythmic possibilities in luscious phrase work to scores of R&B, Soul and everything in-between.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Isaac- East African Contemporary
Saturday May 31st, 2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
East African dance class inspired by the vibrant rhythms and traditions of East Africa! Dance to drum patterns of Ugandan, Kenya and Tanzanian. No experience needed—just bring your joy, your energy, and your love for dance. Come shake, stomp, and celebrate culture.
All levels!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
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Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #4
DESCRIPTION: the lowest hum. a buzz. going on and on and on and on and on. the part that holds a song together such that trilling frequencies may layer and flit atop. also a type of bee. a device of state surveillance. an annoying person.
each class in this series will dive into a different angle of droning research. themes include: a deep listening dance party, the anatomy of the ear, the physics of sound waves, the buoyancy of the hyoid bone, the bagpipe, resistance songs, tuning our bodies (as if we were to play a concerto)... and more. we’ll use both improvisation and set movement phrases to enter into long-form repetition scores, repeating repeating and repeating until the repetition itself tells us what to next layer onto ourselves and with each other.
NOTE: Masks required + provided at the door (kn95 or higher)
LEVEL: all levels with openness to choreography (with modification options, both of the steps and of the learning process). if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email lu at ludonovan8@gmail.com.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo by Caitlin Chung.
As part of this new fancy 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!
C. Woods: Soul Groove Flow- Class Series- Class #4
DESCRIPTION: This a contemporary series that focuses on the integration of House, West African, and floor work elements. We will ignite the power of our vessels with a fully embodied improvisation. Transmuting movement modes to meaningful applications to ground your mind and invigorate spirit. Let's flesh out rhythmic possibilities in luscious phrase work to scores of R&B, Soul and everything in-between.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!
Nella- GOO CLASS
Saturday May 24th, 2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Working with "constructed situations” that can progress/peak through imagery, impulse, duration, and freedom! This class will be a series of improvisational practices aimed at individual and communal release/re-distribution of energy.
Inspired by music, tone, patterns, the nervous system, waveforms, spring, & more!
Level: intentionally open to all
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
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Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #3
DESCRIPTION: the lowest hum. a buzz. going on and on and on and on and on. the part that holds a song together such that trilling frequencies may layer and flit atop. also a type of bee. a device of state surveillance. an annoying person.
each class in this series will dive into a different angle of droning research. themes include: a deep listening dance party, the anatomy of the ear, the physics of sound waves, the buoyancy of the hyoid bone, the bagpipe, resistance songs, tuning our bodies (as if we were to play a concerto)... and more. we’ll use both improvisation and set movement phrases to enter into long-form repetition scores, repeating repeating and repeating until the repetition itself tells us what to next layer onto ourselves and with each other.
NOTE: Masks required + provided at the door (kn95 or higher)
LEVEL: all levels with openness to choreography (with modification options, both of the steps and of the learning process). if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email lu at ludonovan8@gmail.com.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo by Caitlin Chung.
As part of this new fancy 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!
C. Woods: Soul Groove Flow- Class Series- Class #3
DESCRIPTION: This a contemporary series that focuses on the integration of House, West African, and floor work elements. We will ignite the power of our vessels with a fully embodied improvisation. Transmuting movement modes to meaningful applications to ground your mind and invigorate spirit. Let's flesh out rhythmic possibilities in luscious phrase work to scores of R&B, Soul and everything in-between.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy 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!