As a part of our ongoing commitment to professional dancers, Dance New Amsterdam is incorporating periodic specialty workshops into our Modern Guest Artist series. These mini-workshops are taught by our rotating roster of guest teachers from around the world. Our guest artists represent the broad spectrum of styles in modern dance today, from contemporary and post-modern dance to contact improvisation and release work. These mini-workshops allow our diverse guests to share specialized knowledge with our students. The workshops run the gamut from Partnering and Improvisation to Dance Theater Composition. Unlike our regular classes, preregistration will be available for all Modern Guest Artist Mini-Workshops.

Upcoming Workshops:

Ori Flomin: Breaking Forms

Monday-Friday, Jun 22-26, 2-4pm

The aim of this workshop is to arrive at a new place of improvisational possibilities from an original shared vocabulary of movement and phrasing.
At start participants will learn a dance phrase that will become a physical departure or investigative resource for later improvisational work. The phrase will be slightly quirky, demanding, dynamic and articulate. participants will learn how to work with the use of momentum, gravity and softness in the joints,in order to find clarity in their movement in space.
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Past workshops include:

March 2009

Catherine Miller: Floor Workshop

October 2008

Jen Abrams: Composition

August 2008

Lindsey and Jason Dietz Marchant: Partnering with Improvisation

July 2008

Alexandra Beller: Dance Theater Composition Workshop

Laura Peterson: Construct/Deconstruct: a Repertory and Composition Workshop

June 2008

Jennifer Nugent: Partnering and Improvisation

May 2008

Curt Haworth and Amanda Loulaki: Technique and Repertory

Jason and Lindsey Dietz Marchant: Partnering