Class Calendar
PDS offers classes:
Mondays 7-8:30 PM @ Mascher Space
Wednesdays 10-11:30 AM @ Mascher Space
Thursdays 7-8:30 PM @ & Space
Saturdays 11AM-12:30 PM @ & Space
Classes are pay-what-you-can and no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds. Please contact us if you have any questions about taking class! Please register for class online (by selecting the class). Scroll down for the class schedule in list form, or peruse through the calendar to the right!
Pricing
Video by Rodney Murray.
We use a pay-what-you-can-model (PWYC) where no one is turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
Please register for class in advance! When registering, select your payment amount or $0 for NOTAFLOF.
How does PDS use class fees?
We use class fees to firstly, pay for the studio rental for the respective class and secondly, to compensate the teacher! Additional funds will be used for future studio rentals and additional expenses.
Refund Policy
Class payments are non-refundable, but we can apply your payment towards any other class you would like to take! Please let us know via email before class starts in order to use your payment for another class in the future.
UPCOMING CLASSES
UPCOMING CLASSES
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Yuki Ishiguro- Contemporary Flow: Floorwork & Intention
Thursday 9/10
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION:
This class introduces contemporary dance techniques that Yuki Ishiguro developed through 15 years of professional experience as a dancer and choreographer in New York City. The class focuses on isolation, fluid transitions, weight shifts, and dynamic use of space. Drawing from his background in breakdance, Ishiguro also introduces his original floorwork method, which uses gravity, momentum, and the natural articulation of the joints to create fluid transitions from standing to the floor and back again. Beyond developing physical technique, dancers will apply these ideas to contemporary movement phrases while exploring intention, breath, timing, and the direction of energy.
Concepts drawn from Japanese movement philosophy and aesthetics—including ma (space and time), in-yō (the interplay of opposing forces), ryūdōbi (the beauty of fluid movement), and jo-ha-kyū (gradual development, acceleration, and conclusion)—will be introduced as practical tools that can be understood through the body rather than as abstract theories.
This teaching method is based on Ishiguro’s academic research, which organizes contemporary dance through a framework of sixteen Japanese philosophical and aesthetic concepts. In 2025, the project was the only arts-based research selected for funding by Montclair State University and received official support from the university. Following peer review, the research has been accepted for publication in Dance Education in Practice and is scheduled to appear in 2027.
Originally from Japan, Ishiguro holds an MFA in Dance from Montclair State University and is the founder and artistic director of Yu.S.Artistry. He received the Ellen Forman Memorial Award in 2024 and was selected for a Cannonball-supported cohort as part of the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His work has been presented at Lincoln Center, Queens Theater and the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. In Bucks County, he developed a collaboration with the Michener Art Museum and presented a performance centered on cultural exchange between Japan and the United States supported by Japan Foundation. As a performer, Ishiguro toured Africa with Catapult Entertainment. He was also selected as one of seven dancers to perform in a work by Emery LeCrone, known for her choreography for New York City Ballet, alongside dancers affiliated with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Martha Graham Dance Company. As an educator, Ishiguro has served as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University, choreographed work for students at Drexel University, and taught workshops at Manhattanville College, Coker University, Nazareth University, and other institutions.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: yu.s.artistry_official
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #1
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
CJ Abeshaus- Contemporary 2000’s Pop
Thursday 9/17
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!
We'll be moving quickly through choreography, but all levels of experience are welcome to come party with us!
LEVEL: Intermediate
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #2
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #2
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #3
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #3
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #4
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Philly Dance Share Town Hall
Philly Dance Share Town Hall
Come join us at Studio 34 for our first Philly Dance Share Town Hall! We want to hear from you!
October 7th, 6-8pm
What do you want to see more of?
What are you curious about?
What do you love about PDS?
What do you want to see for PDS and for the dance community at large in Philly!
Open to ALL!
This event is free, please RSVP below and choose the $0 option to let us know you’re coming. Payment options are for donations if you so choose.
We ❤️ you!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this event.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs.
ACCESS: The Studio 34 lounge is up 1 steep flight of stairs with about 20 steps. There is no elevator available.
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #4
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #5
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Yuki Ishiguro- Contemporary Flow: Floorwork & Intention
Thursday 9/10
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION:
This class introduces contemporary dance techniques that Yuki Ishiguro developed through 15 years of professional experience as a dancer and choreographer in New York City. The class focuses on isolation, fluid transitions, weight shifts, and dynamic use of space. Drawing from his background in breakdance, Ishiguro also introduces his original floorwork method, which uses gravity, momentum, and the natural articulation of the joints to create fluid transitions from standing to the floor and back again. Beyond developing physical technique, dancers will apply these ideas to contemporary movement phrases while exploring intention, breath, timing, and the direction of energy.
Concepts drawn from Japanese movement philosophy and aesthetics—including ma (space and time), in-yō (the interplay of opposing forces), ryūdōbi (the beauty of fluid movement), and jo-ha-kyū (gradual development, acceleration, and conclusion)—will be introduced as practical tools that can be understood through the body rather than as abstract theories.
This teaching method is based on Ishiguro’s academic research, which organizes contemporary dance through a framework of sixteen Japanese philosophical and aesthetic concepts. In 2025, the project was the only arts-based research selected for funding by Montclair State University and received official support from the university. Following peer review, the research has been accepted for publication in Dance Education in Practice and is scheduled to appear in 2027.
Originally from Japan, Ishiguro holds an MFA in Dance from Montclair State University and is the founder and artistic director of Yu.S.Artistry. He received the Ellen Forman Memorial Award in 2024 and was selected for a Cannonball-supported cohort as part of the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His work has been presented at Lincoln Center, Queens Theater and the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. In Bucks County, he developed a collaboration with the Michener Art Museum and presented a performance centered on cultural exchange between Japan and the United States supported by Japan Foundation. As a performer, Ishiguro toured Africa with Catapult Entertainment. He was also selected as one of seven dancers to perform in a work by Emery LeCrone, known for her choreography for New York City Ballet, alongside dancers affiliated with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Martha Graham Dance Company. As an educator, Ishiguro has served as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University, choreographed work for students at Drexel University, and taught workshops at Manhattanville College, Coker University, Nazareth University, and other institutions.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: yu.s.artistry_official
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #5
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #6
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Harlee Trautman- Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT)
Thursday 10/22
7-8:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton Street, Floor 3
DESCRIPTION: Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) class with Harlee invites dancers into an exploration of flow, grounding, and expressive range. Through spontaneously composed phrases that respond to the dancers in the room, we will begin on the ground and build toward locomotive dancing.
Together we will access the mobility of the trunk and torso, explore the complex intelligence of the ball-and-socket joints, and cultivate embodied and spatial awareness that supports both the pursuit of excellence and the prevention of injury or unnecessary strain.
Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the framework for dance and teaching movement developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. Harlee has been an advanced student of Spiral Body Techniques® since 2016, and is part of the inaugural cohort of certified instructors (2023).
Instagram: @trauty528
LEVEL: Intermediate
This class is geared toward intermediate-advanced movement artists, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities.
MASKING: Masks optional.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #6
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #7
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #7
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #8
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #8
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #9
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #9
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #10
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Meghan Frederick- Undoing Improvisation- Rigor as Applicable Tool Class #10
Saturdays in September, October, November, 2026
11AM-12:30PM @ & Space
1021 Hamilton St #302
DESCRIPTION:
Over the last 9 years, I have developed an improvisational method that has been particularly generative for me. It focuses on 'undoing' much of what I realized was my unconscious practice as a contemporary/post-modern/concert dance improvisor. I will share from that practice in the hopes it can be generative for participants as well- whether they are seasoned improvisors interested in a challenge, or dancers new to improvisation and open to learning post-modern improvisational conventions 'from the inside out'.
After warming up and practicing together we will take time to talk about the ways in which conventions and priorities in artistic practice are always inescapable. For example, as much as this method undoes some conventions, it underscores other conventions- chief among them the idea that rigor is of the highest importance. We will excavate 'rigor' as a concept, and as a tool, with time given for participants to move/think about the ways in which rigor may be applicable to their personal choreographic/improvisational practices.
While it is possible to drop in for select dates, participants will benefit from being able to accumulate information and practice over multiple classes.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Instagram: @meghanfrederick5
Masks will be optional for this series.
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Pixelations: A Multimedia Movement Workshop with Shosh and Claire Class #11
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring space, time and form, this class series is open to all ideas related to movement, media, and documentation. Claire and Shosh will lead this series; we are dancers, but we love all forms of art. Inspired by film, photography, and projection, we will include these elements to broaden the possibilities for multimedia performance art creation. This looks like workshopping movement concepts using photo, video, and projection technology. We will be moving, but absolutely no movement experience is necessary. We wish to connect folks from all art forms to movement and, in a salon style, explore what is possible.
Nella will be joining us for special GOO classes with live music!
Dates for GOO: September 28, October 26, and November 30!
LEVEL: All-levels
Open to all movers and observers!
MASKING: Masks will be optional for this series.
MORE INFO: masks are optional but welcome. please reach out to Claire, Shosh, or PDS with access needs or questions, including but not limited to covid-related needs. this series is open to any and everyone interested in movement, video, photography, music, and play.
Instagram: @sshoshiii, @clairenatiez
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Katherine and Nicole: Floorwork
DESCRIPTION: Nicole and Katherine are excited to share their floorwork practices with you!!
Each class will begin with a thorough warmup that revs up gradually. Starting all the way on the ground, we will slowly work towards bearing weight on our hands, knees, and (sometimes) feet.
After a warm up in the center, we will begin to travel across the floor, continuing to warm in low-level and mid-level movements. We will move on to exercises to tune and train specific floorwork skills that will come back later in class in a larger phrase. We will have plenty of time to get into details of any sticky points that may arise- discussion and playtime will be had.
Skills trained in the across the floor exercises will then be utilized in a fun final movement phrase consisting of set material. This phrase will:
-utilize momentum and weight
-include lots of spiral-y, fluid movement
-emphasize smooth & easy transitions in and out of the floor
-get us sweatin!!!
Each class will be different, but there will be consistency in some skills and movement patterns, allowing participants coming back to grow in their practice. We will offer lots of variations, modifications, and speed options, to ensure the movement we are sharing is accessible to all experience levels.
Wear long sleeves and pants. Kneepads are highly recommended if you have them!!
LEVEL: Open level
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
Masks: Optional
As part of this website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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!