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
Xander: What’s dancing anyways? Class #3 (subbed by shosh isaacs)
DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
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!
GC Harper- The Upside Down
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!
GOO X Delawhere
Thursday 11/20/2025
Cardell Dance Studio
1713 Melon St, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Sponsored by Philly Dance Share
French musician, sound designer, and composer Delawhere joins GOO class for a special open practice at Cardell Dance Studio, November 20.
Melting and reforming through "constructed situations”, GOO class is prompted by imagery, sensory information, and impulse. Nella Biacs leads in collaboration with live musicians to improvise off the same material, finding progressions and peaks within the boundaries of simple and recognizable ideas.
Delawhere is the founder of the record label People Make Mixtapes and produces for a variety of projects and clients. He often collaborates with film directors, artists, singer/songwriters, and brands including Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Adidas, Kasmin Gallery NYC, and Kimhekim.
https://delawheremusic.com/
PWYC & NOTALOF
$10-25 suggested (all funds to reimburse artists involved)
LEVEL: GOO is 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!
Thank you!
Corinne Jones- Theme of the Day: changes
Saturday 11/8/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: ¡vamo! celebrates life, resilience and connection. this class is rooted in the rhythms of jazz, the storytelling of folkloric dance and the fluid expression of contemporary movement. class begins with a communal dance party as we welcome each other into the space followed by a guided warmup, across the floor combinations and ending with choreography that feels like a nice warm abrazo (hug)
¡todos son bienvenidos!-every body, every story, every dancer. come as you are, and leave a little lighter, a little stronger, and more grounded in what makes you come alive. ¡vamo! let's dance!
LEVEL: Beginner-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!
Vyette: Rhythm, Texture, Flow, Class #4
DESCRIPTION: This class is a rhythm and groove-based approach to contemporary dance. Expect material that indulges in fluidity, curvatures, and grounded movement.
We’ll warm up together through guided improvisation to build heat and spark creative choices. To prepare for full body movement, we’ll utilize conditioning exercises and light partnering. We’ll learn patterns across the floor and throughout the space, fusing rhythmic footwork with sinewy transitions. Class will end with a phrase that ties it all together.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo credit: Jano Cohen
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!
Xander: What’s dancing anyways? Class #4
DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
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!
GC Harper- The Upside Down
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!
Amanda Rattigan- co//apse
Saturday 12/6/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Falling, flying, smearing, sliding, searing, shattering, folding.
In an effort to deepen our connection to the xyz-axis’, we will explore the sensation and generation of falling. Utilizing fundamental floorwork exercises to supplement guided improvisation, this class collages the collapse - incorporating partnering, building intensity, and playing with the potential for decomposition.
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!
Vyette: Rhythm, Texture, Flow, Class #5
DESCRIPTION: This class is a rhythm and groove-based approach to contemporary dance. Expect material that indulges in fluidity, curvatures, and grounded movement.
We’ll warm up together through guided improvisation to build heat and spark creative choices. To prepare for full body movement, we’ll utilize conditioning exercises and light partnering. We’ll learn patterns across the floor and throughout the space, fusing rhythmic footwork with sinewy transitions. Class will end with a phrase that ties it all together.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo credit: Jano Cohen
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!
Xander: What’s dancing anyways? Class #5
DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
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!
Lauren Linder- the curious body
Thursday 11/6/2025 & 12/11/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Embrace your curiosity in this somatic improvisation class! Movement and movement choices will be explored in every aspect. There is an emphasis on how movement feels, not how it looks. Utilizing imagery and play, the class will explore new ways to move and think about movement, even if it’s a little weird!!
LEVEL: Beginner
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 Ssemaganda- East Afro Contemporary
Saturday 12/13/25
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: This class is a fusion of the vibrant and rhythmic movements from traditional dances in East Africa
Expect fun energetic and grounded movement, polyrhythmic footwork, expressive torso articulation in a creative contemporary experience.
LEVEL: Open to 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!
Thank you!
Vyette: Rhythm, Texture, Flow, Class #6
DESCRIPTION: This class is a rhythm and groove-based approach to contemporary dance. Expect material that indulges in fluidity, curvatures, and grounded movement.
We’ll warm up together through guided improvisation to build heat and spark creative choices. To prepare for full body movement, we’ll utilize conditioning exercises and light partnering. We’ll learn patterns across the floor and throughout the space, fusing rhythmic footwork with sinewy transitions. Class will end with a phrase that ties it all together.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo credit: Jano Cohen
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!
Xander: What’s dancing anyways? Class #6
DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
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!
Ben Capp- Paratheater
Saturday 12/20/25
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: At the intersection between dance, theater, and ritual is PARATHEATER, or "Next-To" theater, in which we acknowledge that moving and being together is enough. We remember (re/member) that our bodies are in a constant state of change and becoming. In this class we will explore a few techniques for building trust and openness towards others so that we can move with more freedom and potential.
LEVEL: Beginner
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!
Colby Calhoun/Miss Gender (Subbing for Vyette) Rhythm, Texture, Flow, Class #3
DESCRIPTION: This class is a rhythm and groove-based approach to contemporary dance. Expect material that indulges in fluidity, curvatures, and grounded movement.
We’ll warm up together through guided improvisation to build heat and spark creative choices. To prepare for full body movement, we’ll utilize conditioning exercises and light partnering. We’ll learn patterns across the floor and throughout the space, fusing rhythmic footwork with sinewy transitions. Class will end with a phrase that ties it all together.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo credit: Jano Cohen
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!
Micah Lat/Rot- Getting Stuck/Mouth Rot
Saturday 11/1/25 & Saturday 11/15/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Getting Stuck/Mouth Rot is a dance practice by Micah Lat or Rot about being, becoming, listening, and responding. It is a moment to re-act to being "touched" by sound, light, and our neighbor. The class will invite participants to get stuck in repetitious movement. To see, to be seen, and to act! To respond. This is an opportunity to be honest and absurd in a group setting. This is an invitation to invite your body to ask itself what it's up as it gets up to move. We'll ask each other "what just happened?" at the end again and again and again.
LEVEL: Beginner-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!
sharedelusion- sissy that floor!
Thursday 11/13/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Sissy That Floor™️
Set to the music of RuPaul, Sissy That Floor™️ incorporates dynamic movement combining jazz technique with FloorWerk to unlock your inner diva. Class will begin with a Pilates inspired warm up led by Magaly followed by an across-the-floor series including improvisation and set combinations. We will conclude Sissy That Floor™️ with PhraseWerk taught by Magaly and Ella. Release your inner saboteur and experience The Realness🪩
LEVEL: Intermediate- dancers of all levels are still more than welcome
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!
Xander: What’s dancing anyways? Class #2
DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
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!
Vyette: Rhythm, Texture, Flow, Class #2
DESCRIPTION: This class is a rhythm and groove-based approach to contemporary dance. Expect material that indulges in fluidity, curvatures, and grounded movement.
We’ll warm up together through guided improvisation to build heat and spark creative choices. To prepare for full body movement, we’ll utilize conditioning exercises and light partnering. We’ll learn patterns across the floor and throughout the space, fusing rhythmic footwork with sinewy transitions. Class will end with a phrase that ties it all together.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo credit: Jano Cohen
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!
Sara Herrera- ¡vamo! let's dance!
Saturday 11/8/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: ¡vamo! celebrates life, resilience and connection. this class is rooted in the rhythms of jazz, the storytelling of folkloric dance and the fluid expression of contemporary movement. class begins with a communal dance party as we welcome each other into the space followed by a guided warmup, across the floor combinations and ending with choreography that feels like a nice warm abrazo (hug)
¡todos son bienvenidos!-every body, every story, every dancer. come as you are, and leave a little lighter, a little stronger, and more grounded in what makes you come alive. ¡vamo! let's dance!
LEVEL: Beginner-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!
Lauren Linder- the curious body
Thursday 11/6/2025 & 12/11/2025
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Embrace your curiosity in this somatic improvisation class! Movement and movement choices will be explored in every aspect. There is an emphasis on how movement feels, not how it looks. Utilizing imagery and play, the class will explore new ways to move and think about movement, even if it’s a little weird!!
LEVEL: Beginner
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!
Xander: What’s dancing anyways? Class #1
DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
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!
Vyette: Rhythm, Texture, Flow, Class #1
DESCRIPTION: This class is a rhythm and groove-based approach to contemporary dance. Expect material that indulges in fluidity, curvatures, and grounded movement.
We’ll warm up together through guided improvisation to build heat and spark creative choices. To prepare for full body movement, we’ll utilize conditioning exercises and light partnering. We’ll learn patterns across the floor and throughout the space, fusing rhythmic footwork with sinewy transitions. Class will end with a phrase that ties it all together.
LEVEL: Intermediate
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Photo credit: Jano Cohen
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!
Micah Lat/Rot- Getting Stuck/Mouth Rot
Saturday 11/1/25 & Saturday 11/15/2025
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Getting Stuck/Mouth Rot is a dance practice by Micah Lat or Rot about being, becoming, listening, and responding. It is a moment to re-act to being "touched" by sound, light, and our neighbor. The class will invite participants to get stuck in repetitious movement. To see, to be seen, and to act! To respond. This is an opportunity to be honest and absurd in a group setting. This is an invitation to invite your body to ask itself what it's up as it gets up to move. We'll ask each other "what just happened?" at the end again and again and again.
LEVEL: Beginner-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!
Harlee Trautman- Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT)
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
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!
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!
Michelle Slavik- Movement Alchemy
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
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!
Rodney Murray- MOVEABLE BODIES
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
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 #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!
Anna Scattoni- Intermediate Ballet (October)
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
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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
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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!
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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!
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Nicole Bindler- Invagination: we are enfolded by space
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!
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Kayliani Sood- Are You Down? #2
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
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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!
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Nella Biacs: GOO CLASS- Class Series, Class #6 (SUBBED BY ANNA SCATTONI)
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!
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Corinne Jones- Theme of the day: ghosts
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
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Chelsea Murphy- Somatic Jawnt
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
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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!
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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!
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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.