2025 Summer MELT with Jordan Demitrius Lloyd; several dancers in a studio.

Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Feldenkrais Method® Awareness Through Movement

Jimena Paz

Wed, Sep 2 - Oct 28, 2026

A bright studio. A dancer lays on the floor legs bent and arm reaching behind them. Photo by Rauschenberg Foundation
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Klein Technique™ Dance/Movement Class

Barbara Mahler

Fri, Sep 4 - Dec 18, 2026

A photo of Barbara Mahler guiding a student during her class. The student faces away from the camera in a soft forward fold, letting their shoulders and head fall forwards. Barbara places a hand at the student’s sacrum and behind their thigh. Barbara wears a bright multicolored top with pink, blue and yellow patterns. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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Embracing the Awkward

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Sat, Sep 12 - Oct 10, 2026

Ishmael Houston-Jones, a brown-skin African-American middle-aged man with short salt and pepper hair is caught mid-fall, crunching up his face and swinging semi-fisted hands in front. He is wearing a tattered blue and white plaid tee-shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers. Photo by Ian Douglas.

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Performance of TERRANEA at Hammana Artist House (Lebanon 2022) with Leila Awadallah, Natasha Karam, and Andrea Fahed - image by Zaynab Mourad
Critical Correspondence

echoes that rumble through a rooted vessel: on Palestine, Lebanon, and the ground between us, with Noora Baker, Natasha Karam, and Leila Awadallah

This conversation between Noora Baker, Natasha Karam and Leila Awadallah took place on January 27th, 2026 in a ‘gathering’ that defied multiple occupations and imperial and settler

Critical Correspondence
“Untitled Crete Performance”, choreographer and artist Lena Martin. Lena, nude and covered in clay, leans against a large stone wall in a squat position, pressing a painted canvas of layered neutral shapes textures between the stone and her back. Photo by Natalie Maher courtesy of Mudhouse Residency.

Carrying In and Moving With: Conversation between Lena Martin and Jas Lin

Lena Martin and Jas Lin are both exciting movement artists based in Los Angeles. They have crossed paths with each other a few times in the community, but they agreed to use this

About our Classes and Workshops
Brown skinned person with short black kinky hair, moving sideways in the ocean, engulfed by waves. Photo by Nir Arieli

Sounding Body Series

Events
luciana standing by a graffiti in Ljubljana, Slovenia, She has wide legged jeans and birkenstock sandals a Mexican Chiapas embroidered shirt with an open jean jacket on top. She has a big smile dark sunglasses and pink hair pulled back. The graffit is in Slovenian:

GPS Chats: Reports from the Field – Dancing Feminist Kin-aesthetics