DANCING WITH YOURSELF + OTHERS:

We will explore how our relationships with the floor, space, and our own bodies can translate into moving with other dancers with and without touch. We will move from fundamentals to solo, duet, and group improvisation supported by Kara’s massage-based knowledge of the body and touch. We will create partnering spaces informed by consent practices that give dancers the agency to engage in dancing partnerships based on comfort and care, while encouraging opportunities of risk-taking and exploration towards our limits of discomfort.

BIO:

Kara Beadle (they/them) is a movement artist, dance educator, and massage therapist based in Seattle, WA. As a non-binary, neuro-queer dance maker, Kara values queering dance through humor, improvisation, and object/human relationships to explore their interest in the interplay between neurodivergence, gender-nonconformance, the pressure to fit into society, and performative art. Kara is a lead collaborator of Heap, a Seattle-based performance troupe created with musician and handyman extraordinaire Andy Zacek and several rotating artists. Their experimental theatrics celebrate abundance, while critiquing overconsumption. Inside the fantasy worlds they build, Heap designs absurd scenarios between objects and bodies to subvert objectification and flaunt our lust for inanimate things.

RETURNING TO THE BODY, A CONTEMPORARY HIP-HOP EXPLORATION:

Returning to the Body : A Contemporary Hip Hop Exploration is a hybrid workshop style class where dancers will be asked to uncover and explore the different modalities of contemporary dance, curves, spirals, deep connection to the floor and space through our warm up and movement approach; while intertwining the key fundamental aspects of Hip Hop dance the rhythm, rock, and bounce as a layer of discovery for dancers interested in finding more unique pathways of moving.

BIO:

 Movement artist DaeZhane Day emulates the blend between Seattle contemporary dance and Bay Area street hip hop. With a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts, DaeZhane shares her hybrid form in and around the Seattle area and beyond. DaeZhane is most recognized for her recent work “I remember what it smelt like when you walked through the room”  presented at Bridge Project through Velocity Dance Center. DaeZhane has set work for Seattle Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the Northwest School, and eXit Space School of Dance. DaeZhane’s passion for experimental mixed media art has connected her with collaborations with Future Arts’ augmented reality mural installation “Cut, Crush, Decay” and her most recent collaboration with Dark Arts software and their new VR interactive dance game “Trip The Light”. DaeZhane’s commitment to community gravitates her to share her practice in places like eXit Space School of Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and in and around the Pacific Northwest.

*Photo by Jazzy Photo

HOUSE FOUNDATIONS:

House Class focuses on foundational steps and variations, feeling the music, finding your voice through freestyle, and working on steps through drilling, combos and choreography while working solo and with others. This class will help others learn some history of House dance as well as gain a larger vocabulary in movement. There are different warmups I utilize including body weight exercises, functional movement, freestyle and other dance-based warmups. My classes work on connecting the movements in your body and learning to make them your own and help speak your voice through the movement, everyone has a different body and relates to movement differently, so we work towards what feels best for you after working on a base. Freestyle is a big part of class and showing your authentic self, you will hear various types of music in class during freestyle sections, but foundation portions of the class will be to various types of House music, freestyle is a part of the warm up and class WILL ALWAYS END IN A CYPHER. Class will not tolerate any misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, or any other form of disrespect to individuals in any way. Class is open to all levels, and anyone can take something away. Come ready to be yourself, have  fun, be challenged, and sweat! Feel free to message me for any questions.

BIO:

Majinn (They/Them) is a queer, disabled, mixed Black LMT and dance artist and educator who utilizes their training in multiple dance forms to find and express their whole self. They believe that to be the best person they can be they need to continuously push their own comfort zone. Majinn works to help guide people in becoming more confident and connected in their bodies, find joy in movement and be able to speak their voices primarily through Black social dance forms. One of Majinn’s biggest goals in dance is to spread the histories and cultures of Black social dance forms in and out of academia so that the cultures are learned and more respected. They also aim to give back to the communities that these art forms were created from through any way they can. Majinn’s art is for themselves and the communities they come from, always striving to be authentically themselves in their movement and work. You can find Majinn under Majinn_Moves on Instagram