Stretch your body and your mind as you learn and perform three short pieces in our Adult Choreography Intensive 2023! At the end of the weekend, you will be a stronger and more versatile dancer.
During the intensive, you’ll work with three different choreographers of three separate genres. ArVejon Jones will guide you on a journey through jazz. He has a fierce passion for the style and an encyclopedic knowledge. Katie Roy will share her process for creating contemporary movement, understanding your organic impulse, and tapping into your innate creativity. And Victor Talledos will open your world to contemporary ballet, demonstrating how traditional movement can be broadened to make fresh, new artistic statements.
Our Adult Choreography Intensive 2023 culminates in an in-person showing in one of our studios, a great opportunity to perform for friends, family, and peers.
Join Elizabeth and experiment with locomotive phrases and improvisational scores based on her current work “Cuatro Vientos”. Elizabeth’s pedagogy draws from Modern Release, Cunningham, Limón, Graham, and Horton techniques. Class will begin with somatic awareness exercises and progress into her leggy, gestural, and athletic choreography. Prepare to move in and out of the floor, float, jump, and sweat!
Open to all, Elizabeth’s masterclass also serves as an audition for the Piñata Dance Collective, an all woman-identified cast of dancers. They will perform on June 8 and 10 for the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Rehearsals will be 3–4 times a week, March 13–June 8 and will include hourly compensation. For more information on Elizabeth’s company, visit: lizboubion.org.
Photography: Eva Soltes
In this workshop, Devon Chen PT, DPT, OCS, and Nol Simonse will lead dancers in a fun, engaging process designed to deepen our awareness of our bodies and artistic capabilities.
Nol will teach material from his piece “clown cage,” created and performed with Miche Wong in a residency at Deborah Slater’s Studio 210. This material is challenging, and designed to increase memory, stamina, and performative qualities. The workshop is open to dancers at any level, but the phrases being taught are geared towards intermediate dancers.
Devon will guide dancers in an exploration of movement to gain a better understanding of the anatomy and bio-mechanics of dance. Each class will focus on a different topic that will enable dancers to break down barriers that have been holding them back.
Approach your body and dancing from different points of view—grow and stretch your knowledge and capabilities with these two wonderful teachers!
Photography: LINES Dance Center | Chris Hardy
Joshua Francique creates a welcoming space that honors individuality with the freedom to explore unique movement qualities. Inspired by a fusion of Horton, Graham, and Jazz; this class allows dancers to groove, using specific modern techniques as a pathway for creative movement/thinking and body conditioning. Drawing focus to human connection, musicality, and an over all feel good experience sure to develop your mind, movement language, and soul.
Photo Credit: Michelle Reid
This beginning modern class is designed for those with little to no experience with modern dance techniques. We will dive deeper into the vocabulary of modern dance classes, using Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff fundamentals as a guiding point to explore release techniques through an embodied practice. Dancers will explore exercises that utilize weight-shifts, floor-work, rhythm, transitions, level changes, and direction changes, with a focus on personal strength and safety for the individual dancer.
Countertechnique® is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates, and strengthens the body, making the dancer sweat, build stamina, and really move. The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique principles in detail. The second half of the class consists of changing components, working towards luscious movement combinations and jumping at the end. As a result, dancers will use less energy, lose their fear of taking risks, and gain speed in changing directions.
Photo Credit: Alonzo King LINES Ballet I Dance Center I Kim Doeleman
Geared for the professional and non-professional dancer alike, this intensive for adults offers you an immersive training opportunity. You will develop personal artistry and improve your technique in intimate contact renowned faculty and the philosophy and approach of Alonzo King.
Discover your own artistry, change your perspective and experience LINES.
— Open to all levels of experience
— Daily classes in ballet technique plus Contemporary, Jazz, Somatics, Global Dance, LINES Repertory, and more, with our former LINES Ballet company dancers and our renowned faculty
— Explore the creative process with Alonzo King
THURSDAY, MAY 26 CLASSES
Grounding and Groundwork with Samuel Malecio-Zambrano
Thursday, May 26 | 6:15 – 7:30pm
FRIDAY, MAY 27 CLASSES
Mat Pilates with Christina Briggs
10:00 – 11:00am
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Kara Wilkes
11:15am – 12:45pm
Improv with Daiane Lopes da Silva
2:00 – 3:15pm
Horton Choreography with Victor Talledos
3:30 – 4:45pm
Contemporary Jazz with Lynn Brilhante
5:00 – 6:15pm
SATURDAY, MAY 28 CLASSES
Yoga with Rondy Isaac
10:00 – 11:00am
Afro-Contemporary with ArVejon Jones
11:15am – 12:45pm
Heart with LINES Pedagogy with Mary Carbonara
2:00 – 3:15pm
Master Class and Conversation with Alonzo King (Drop-Ins Welcome for $75)
3:30 – 4:45pm
SUNDAY, MAY 29 CLASSES
Contemporary with Erik Wagner
10:00 – 11:00am
Making Dance Film with Smartphones with The San Francisco Dance Film Festival
11:15am – 12:45pm
Choreographic Process with Gregory Dawson
2:00 – 3:15pm
Bridging in Practice: Ballet and Hip Hop with Kathy Mata and Jamie Carter
3:30 – 4:45pm
Schedule and classes subject to change.
All classes are hybrid, except Improv with Daiane Lopes da Silva.