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A room with many dancers moving in different directions with windows on the outside. Photo courtesy of the artist.
ID: A room with many dancers moving in different directions with windows on the outside. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Please note: Nicolas Norena will teach on Saturday, March 23rd

These classes will combine skills and applications of decades of somatic research that include release techniques and body-mind practices that explore transitions and systems and patterns of development and evolution, embodiments of Contact Improvisation, and dance tunings within solo, duet (strong emphasis on partnering), and ensemble dancing. The interest and focus are in the very physical, sensorial, and imaginative, and in discovering new challenges and risks within our movement – of both body and mind – towards improvisational and compositional processes. This class plays with honoring the individual within the ensemble. Each student brings their own unique history into a shared experience of creating together a living presence.

(athletics: involving the use of physical skills or capabilities, as strength, agility, or stamina; intimacy: closeness of observation or knowledge of a subject)

Accessibility Notes

  • This class includes auditive guidance.
  • This class includes printed materials.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request” at least three (3) weeks prior to the class start date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org.

Register for this class

In-Person

    Location

    Eden’s Expressway
    537 Broadway 4th Fl
    New York, NY 10012

    • Get the Green - IRT Lexington Avenue Line numbers: 6 to Spring Street
    • Get the Yellow - BMT Broadway Line numbers: N , R to Prince Street
    • Get the Orange - IND Sixth Avenue Line numbers: B , D , F , M to Broadway - Lafayette

    Faculty

    K.J. Holmes

    K.J. Holmes

    K.J. Holmes, independent dance artist, singer, poet, actor and teacher based in Brooklyn, N.Y., has helped to define, first as a student and now as a teacher and performer, many contemporary improvisational practices...

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