Untethered - Falling (up) with somatic awareness, technique, and improvisation
Carmen Serber and Soleil Chappelle
Saturday, August 9th 10am-3:00pm
Aikido Peace Education Center
Sliding scale: $60 - $100
Somatic Awareness and Movement Technique with Carmen
10am-12:00pm
Head, eyes, throat, heart, diaphragm, solar plexus, pelvis, limbs and feet. We dance the relationship to gravity, allowing all those parts of us to fall separately, together and sequentially. Nuanced organization of tone, incremental fall, gigantic fall. Falling in love. Falling as a continuous source of creating motion – a felt sense of body falling through space as dancing. Untethered. One fall becomes the seed of the next. Our senses turned inward and outward. We move at the speed of trust falling together as a community of dancers.
Improvisation and Phrase Work with Soleil
1pm-3:00pm
The physicality and poetics of falling will be explored through improvisation and all-levels follow-along choreography. Gravity as an expression of love. Disorientation as a perspective shift that allows connection through the unexpected. Resilience as the connective tissue between people, the earth, and all beings.
foundDANCE
foundDANCE
foundDANCE
Foundations in Contemporary Dance
Presence Studio | 1412 Cornwall Ave. Bellingham, WA
**On Break July & August
Back in September!**
Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Drop-in: $20 Cash or Card
No one turned away for lack of funds.
foundDANCE is a beginner/all levels contemporary dance class—which means it is for: those who are new to dance, new to contemporary dance, returning to dance after a long time, and anyone looking for a class that prioritizes the joy of movement in a welcoming environment. We will cover movement fundamentals, guided improvisation, learning choreography step by step, all while being gentle with ourselves as we learn new things. At the heart of this class is the experience of moving with a group of people and the magic it brings.
foundDANCE is a 4-week series that begins again approximately every month with new material. The series format allows participants to comfortably learn new skills and a movement phrase over the course of the month. Because the series is a cohesive whole, it’s ok to miss classes, but they aren’t able to be transferred into future series.
interDANCE
foundDANCE
foundDANCE
Intermediate Contemporary Dance
Aikido Peace Education Center | 1101 N State St Bellingham, WA
**On Break July & August
Back in September!**
Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Drop-in: $20 Cash or Card
No one turned away for lack of funds.
interDANCE is intermediate contemporary dance technique, improvisation, somatics, and performance training. It is designed to take the skills learned in foundDANCE to the next level and to slow down advanced movement pathways. If you have taken foundDANCE and are ready for more of a challenge, this class is for you! If you are an advanced dancer looking for subtlety and depth in your practice, this class is also for you! Open to all, previous experience in any dance form strongly encouraged.
interDANCE runs 4-weeks at a time and begins again with new material approximately every month. Signing up for interDANCE as a series allows you to build on material over the course of the month and qualifies you for the discounted rates. Drop-ins are allowed while there is still availability. If you sign up for the series, it’s ok to miss classes, but they aren’t able to be transferred into future months once the series has started.