Class Calendar
PDS offers classes:
Tuesdays 7-8:30 PM @ Mascher Space
Wednesdays 10-11:30 AM @ Mascher Space
Thursdays 7-8:30 PM @ & Space
Saturdays 1-2:30 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
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #9)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Niaya Taylor- Beginner Hip Hop vibes w/ Ni
Thursday 6/25
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: Beginner Hip-Hop (All Levels Welcome!)
This class is for anyone ready to step in, vibe out, and learn the basics of hip-hop in a fun and supportive environment. We’ll focus on groove, confidence, and performance while keeping the energy high. No pressure—just good music, good vibes, and a great workout.
ADULT BEG HH with Niaya IS BACK! No experience needed! Just vibes, sweat & good time ! 🥳 It’s ALWAYS a party over here.
LEVEL: Beginner
Instagram: @soflynii
MASKING: Mask optional.
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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #8
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #8)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #8
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
*Cancelled* GC Harper- The Upside Down
(Cancelled) Thursday 11/20/2025 & 12/4/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Inversions, handstands, cartwheels, bear crawls and more... upside down! This 2 class series is a workshop full of tools aimed at increasing comfort and control while upside down. Through a contemporary lens we will begin with strengthening exercises catered to taking weight on the hands, wrists, and shoulders. We will talk about fluid transitions and control to safely move in, out and through multiple types of inversions. There will be space to increase and decrease the intensity if desired. Come take a risk, play, experiment, and have fun upside down!
LEVEL: Participants should have basic comfort with being upside down and taking weight on the hands and shoulders (think short planks, push-ups, downward dog)
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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #7
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #7)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #7
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
CJ Abeshaus- Contemporary 2000's Pop
Thursday 6/11
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: Gosh I love it when we all move in-synch to early 2000s music! Class will start with a brief warm up to get us comfortable with funky shapes, facial expressions, and precise timing. We'll do some improv exercises across the floor to get into character and spend the bulk of class learning jazz/contemporary choreography to Gwen Stafani's The Sweet Escape!
LEVEL: Intermediate (We'll be moving quickly through choreography, but all levels of experience are welcome to come party with us! )
MASKING: Masks optional.
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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #6
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #6)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #6
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
Natanya Apfelbaum- Healing Bellydance
Thursday 5/14
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: Like water, your body wants to move! This will be an introduction to the ancient and sacred art of bellydancing. The ethos of this class is that bellydance is an awakening of the natural movements of the body, and flows from the anatomy of bones, muscles and breath. Bodies need motion and much contemporary dis-ease comes from stuckness in the body-mind. Bellydance is an incredible medicine for dispelling this stuckness ~ bringing both sensuous flow and percussive movement to wake up and break up places that have been held for too long.
This class will be oriented to those who love to dance but have had a difficult experience of body, knowing that the best way to dance more is to show up and dance with whatever ability you have today.
Instagram: @dancingalive18
LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional.
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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #5
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #5) **SUBBED BY Tatiana Fakoukaki**
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #5
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
Pheobe Ricker- Rubber Bands, Strings, and Springs
Thursday 5/28
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: In this class, we will play with ideas of energy storage and release, repetition and reversal, winding and unwinding-- thinking of our bodies as rubber bands, strings, or springs. We will increase awareness of the paths our bodies are taking through time and space and follow these threads back and forth by breaking choreography into symmetrical "halves". This class will offer both a mental and physical challenge to dancers across a wide range of abilities as we reframe how to intuitively process timing, direction, and transitions.
Instagram: @phoebericker
LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional but encouraged.
Dancers will feel appropriately challenged as long as they are aware of the basic structure of a typical contemporary dance class (warm up, stretch, learning short combinations) and know their own bodies' limits. Advanced strength, flexibility, and technique are not necessary to succeed in this class. Modifications will be provided to dancers who need them.
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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #4
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #4)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #4
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
Tessa Meehan- Back to Technique Basics
Thursday 5/21
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: We’re bringing it back to your 2012 turns and progressions class. Think jazz class across the floor realness. We’ll start with a guided warmup to wake up and engage our muscles and joints and transition into across-the-floor work, focusing on jazz technique foundations including turns, progressions, jumps, and dynamic traveling phrases. Dancers can expect a mix of drills and combinations designed to build stability and power behind our fundamentals. This class is about refining technique while reconnecting with the joy of dancing by tapping into that nostalgic, high-energy feeling that made you fall in love with jazz in the first place. Come ready to move, groove, and leave with combinations that feel just as fun as they are challenging.
Instagram: @tessameehan
LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional but 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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #3
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #3)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #3 *SUBBED BY EMMA HALPER*
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
Natanya Apfelbaum- Healing Bellydance
Thursday 5/14
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: Like water, your body wants to move! This will be an introduction to the ancient and sacred art of bellydancing. The ethos of this class is that bellydance is an awakening of the natural movements of the body, and flows from the anatomy of bones, muscles and breath. Bodies need motion and much contemporary dis-ease comes from stuckness in the body-mind. Bellydance is an incredible medicine for dispelling this stuckness ~ bringing both sensuous flow and percussive movement to wake up and break up places that have been held for too long.
This class will be oriented to those who love to dance but have had a difficult experience of body, knowing that the best way to dance more is to show up and dance with whatever ability you have today.
Instagram: @dancingalive18
LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional.
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!
Kalila Kingsford Smith- Spiral Body Techniques® Class #2
Wednesdays 10-11:30AM May and June 2026
Mascher Space
1170 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
DESCRIPTION: Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® classes introduce and develop foundational movement principles, emphasizing increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than "getting the steps right." We will practice the somatics of sensing and exploring these movements in order to “really dance” the more complex phrasework. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. This SBT® class series for Philly Dance Share will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher. For more information about Spiral Body Techniques® visit www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com
These classes are intended for intermediate contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Long sleeves and/or kneepads recommended.
Masks will be optional
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!
Sarah-Jane El Kassmi: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body (Class #2)
DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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!
Ben Capp- Image & Impulse Laboratory Class #2
Saturdays in May + June 2026
1-3PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION: What is an impulse? How does impulse become action? How do impulses generate more impulses? How do images (emotions, associations, thoughts, imagined realities, and embodied sensations) feed movement? How does movement, in turn, feed image?
In this series we will explore containers for improvisational movement that stimulate the imagination and cultivate curiosity. We will build psychosomatic awareness in the presence of others, building trust with one another so that we can move with more agency and freedom.
No performance experience is required. This practice finds a meeting point between theater, dance, ritual, and just being a regular human. Participants are encouraged to attend more than one session to develop familiarity with the exercises and build a strong group dynamic.
Masks optional.
LEVEL: Beginner
Class packages available!!
4 class package– $60
Full series package– $100
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!
Claire Natiez- surrendering
Thursday 5/7
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: This class is a beginner-level, contemporary style class. We’ll begin with a warm up, some movement prompts, and then end with learning a bit of choreography. This class is open to any and everyone who loves moving, and is also a class for me to grow more comfortable with teaching <3
Instagram: @clairenatiez
LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional. Wear a mask if you have any cold symptoms (or stay home and rest).
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!