Kendra Portier

Kendra Portier is in perpetual love with her hometown in Ohio where she trained and performed with BalletMet and received a BFA in dance from OSU. Since relocating to NYC, she has had the fortune of working with brilliant beings such as Lisa Race/Scott Cohen, Jennifer Nugent, White Road Dance Media, ETCH Dance, 5’4”, Hoi Polloi, Nicole Wolcott Dance, and apprenticed with David Dorfman Dance. Currently, Kendra (with Rachel McKinstry in partnership with Triskelion Arts) has created a movement forum dedicated to centering, encouraging and inspiring a dance community. In addition, she is on faculty at Hunter College and Monroe Dance Academy, performing with Vanessa Justice Dance, and creating/thinking/studying with Launch Movement Experiment. (www.dancepantsnyc.com, www.launchmovementexperiment.com)

Class Description

I am interested in how we can recognize ourselves as grande beings. We will study using improvisation, form, and athletic phrasework as a skeleton for the flesh of performance and artistic nuance. We will ignite our joy to move and be moved, allowing this spark to empower and inform us. We will sweat our histories and nurture the confidence to present them. We will explore via little physics and loud ways. We will enjoy.