Ori Flomin

Ori Flomin is from Israel and has been dancing in New York City since 1989. His Choreography has been seen in NYC at DTW’s Fresh Tracks and Split Stream, PS122 New Stuff, Movement Research at Judson Church, Joe’s pub, DNA and internationaly in Austria, Japan and Israel. He was a member of the Stephen Petronio Dance Company(1991-1999) performing and touring internationally as well as staging Mr. Petronio’s work on other companies He recently rejoined the company as Rehearsal director and assistant to Mr. Petronio. He also danced in the works of Neil Greenberg, Mollisa Fenely, Kevin Wynn, and Michael Clark among others. He teaches dance as a guest artist at several companies and schools in Europe such as ImpulsTanz(Vienna), PARTS(Brussels) DansesHus (Copenhagen) and Sasha Waltz company(Berlin), as well as regularly at Dance New Amsterdam and Movement Research in NYC. Check out http://www.oriflomin.com/ Class Description: The class encourages students to learn how to maximize the use of the warmed-up body to increase their movement possibilities and take risks in dancing. The initial warm-up uses elements from Yoga, Ballet and Release technique to focus on discovering and strengthening connections within the body’s structure and to find a sense of fluidity in the joints. Dancers will develop an understanding of the connections between their body, the floor and how using momentum and breath allows an exploration of physically full dancing with the least amount of Muscular tension. During Phrase work the dancers will learn how to incoporate all the information from the warm-up to aid the dancer in the execution of more complicated sequences as well as continuing to control the use of breath which can help maintain a strong center from which one can explode.