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

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

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #6 (SUBBED BY ANNA SCATTONI)
Oct
7

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #6 (SUBBED BY ANNA SCATTONI)

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #6
Oct
8

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #6

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Kayliani Sood- Are You Down? #2
Oct
9

Kayliani Sood- Are You Down? #2

Kayliani Sood- Are You Down? #2
from $0.00

Thursday 10/9/2025
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

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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Nicole Bindler- Invagination: we are enfolded by space
Oct
11

Nicole Bindler- Invagination: we are enfolded by space

Nicole Bindler- Invagination: we are enfolded by space
from $0.00

Saturday 10/11/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street

DESCRIPTION: Invagination–not to be confused with the anatomical vagina–is a fold, or the act of folding. It is a biological process, a state of being, an embrace, and a way of relating to space and others. We originate as a simple structure that divides and complexifies, enabling us to perform more refined processes through increased surface area. The embryological development of the various tissues in the body go through a fractal process of coiling, creasing, and differentiating – producing infinite folds. In this class we will practice invagination and develop a queer, feminist reimagining of space through somatic research, embodied embryology, ensemble dance improvisation, and performance practice.


LEVEL: Open. All levels of experience are welcome and all genders are encouraged to engage in this work!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #7
Oct
14

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #7

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #7
Oct
15

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #7

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Megan Bridge- Widening the Circle: Composing Somatically #1
Oct
16

Megan Bridge- Widening the Circle: Composing Somatically #1

Megan Bridge- Widening the Circle: Composing Somatically
from $0.00

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

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet (October)
Oct
18

Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet (October)

Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet (October)
from $0.00

Saturday 10/18/2025
1-2:30PM @ 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


Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #8
Oct
21

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #8

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #8
Oct
22

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #8

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Rodney Murray- MOVEABLE BODIES
Oct
23

Rodney Murray- MOVEABLE BODIES

Rodney Murray- MOVEABLE BODIES
from $0.00

Thursday 10/23/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street

DESCRIPTION: The class begins with sensory-based explorations that heighten attention and responsiveness, grounding the body in principles of quickness and awareness. From this foundation, dancers move into dynamic phrase material that emphasizes agility, precision, and choice-making within complex structures. By testing the limits of sensory perception, dancers investigate how awareness of space and momentum can expand possibilities for action. The class culminates in expansive phrase material that propels dancers through space with boldness, clarity, and dynamic presence.

LEVEL: Intermediate, Advanced

Photo by Stepan Liubimov.

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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Michelle Slavik- Movement Alchemy
Oct
25

Michelle Slavik- Movement Alchemy

Michelle Slavik- Movement Alchemy
from $0.00

Saturday 10/25/2025
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.


LEVEL: Intermediate

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #9
Oct
28

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #9

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #9
Oct
29

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #9

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Harlee Trautman- Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT)
Oct
30

Harlee Trautman- Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT)

Harlee Trautman- Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT)
from $0.00

Thursday 10/30/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street

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).

LEVEL: Open. This class welcomes adults of all levels—from experienced dancers seeking to expand their range to newcomers drawn to a practice grounded in both excellence and ease.

PHOTO: Harlee in SBT dialogue, Chicago 2024, photo by Erika Ruch @ladyredphotos

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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Corinne Jones- Theme of the day: ghosts
Oct
4

Corinne Jones- Theme of the day: ghosts

Corinne Jones- Theme of the day: ghosts
from $0.00

Saturday 10/4/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street

DESCRIPTION: “Theme of the Day” is a game of scores-

and this time, we will be playing with the spirit. Oooo.

Throughout this improvisation class, you will be presented with several scores that relate to the “theme of the day.” With support from these prompts and the present moment, your imagination is free to interpret and you may move along as you wish. The bodies in the room and our individual movement choices will hatch truly magical happenings.

The desire of this class is to create moments of awe, comfortable spontaneity, group composition, and of course… surprise! So come haunt.

(Will there be a projector involved? probably so)

LEVEL: Open

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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Chelsea Murphy- Somatic Jawnt
Oct
2

Chelsea Murphy- Somatic Jawnt

Chelsea Murphy- Somatic Jawnt
from $0.00

Thursday 10/2/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street

DESCRIPTION: I’ve been learning a bunch of juicy stuff this past year and I want to continue to integrate it all by teaching! My goal is for us to move fully with our senses activated, feeling alive and playful.

We will use with mindfulness, imagination, partnering, floorwork, rhythm and qualities to train our movement capacities and find expression. We will do improvisation and a “set” “phrase” of “choreography”.

We will probably do stuff on our knees if you want to bring knee pads or long pants.

LEVEL: Intermediate

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #5
Oct
1

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #5

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #5
Sep
30

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #5

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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PDP x PDS Workshop #3- Emiliya Toncheva
Sep
29

PDP x PDS Workshop #3- Emiliya Toncheva

PDP x PDS Workshop #3- Emiliya Toncheva
from $0.00

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.

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PDP x PDS Workshop #2- Viola Lévai
Sep
28

PDP x PDS Workshop #2- Viola Lévai

PDP x PDS Workshop #2- Viola Lévai
from $0.00

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.

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Kate Seethaler- saturation points #2
Sep
27

Kate Seethaler- saturation points #2

Kate Seethaler- saturation points #2
from $0.00

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.

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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PDP x PDS Workshop #1- Adam Kerbel
Sep
27

PDP x PDS Workshop #1- Adam Kerbel

PDP x PDS Workshop #1- Adam Kerbel
from $0.00

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.

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mik phillips- contemporary forms: roadkill/rigor mortis/resurrection
Sep
25

mik phillips- contemporary forms: roadkill/rigor mortis/resurrection

mik phillips- contemporary forms: roadkill/rigor mortis/resurrection
from $0.00

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.

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #4
Sep
24

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #4

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #4
Sep
23

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #4

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Raylá White-Spraggins- Sensual Release: A Movement-Based Sensuality Practice
Sep
20

Raylá White-Spraggins- Sensual Release: A Movement-Based Sensuality Practice

Raylá White-Spraggins- Sensual Release: A Movement-Based Sensuality Practice
from $0.00

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

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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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mikah simone/bd- I’m the love of your life (September)
Sep
18

mikah simone/bd- I’m the love of your life (September)

mikah simone/bd- I’m the love of your life (September)
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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.

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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!

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #3
Sep
17

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #3

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

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$1.00

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #3
Sep
16

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #3

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
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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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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Kate Seethaler- saturation points
Sep
13

Kate Seethaler- saturation points

Kate Seethaler- saturation points
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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.

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$1.00

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Kayliani Sood- Are You Down?
Sep
11

Kayliani Sood- Are You Down?

Kayliani Sood- Are You Down?
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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

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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #2
Sep
10

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #2

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
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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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #2
Sep
9

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #2

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
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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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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Katherine Desimine- Preparing for Performance
Sep
6

Katherine Desimine- Preparing for Performance

Katherine Desimine- Preparing for Performance
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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

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
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Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet
Sep
4

Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet

Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet
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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


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Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #1
Sep
3

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold- Class Series- Class #1

Nicole Connaughton: Push Pull Fold - Wednesdays 10-11:30AM, September + October 2025
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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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #1
Sep
2

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #1

Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS - Tuesdays 7-8:30PM, September + October 2025
from $0.00

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!

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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mikah simone/bd- I'm the Love of Your Life
Jun
28

mikah simone/bd- I'm the Love of Your Life

mikah simone/bd- I’m the love of your life (June)
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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.

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
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Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #8
Jun
26

Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Class Series- Class #8

Lu Donovan: drone tones - repetition, relief, release- Thursdays 7-8:30PM, May + June 2025
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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.

Optional $1 Donation to Cover Fees
$1.00

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