ADULT CLASS DESCRIPTIONS


BEG/INT ADULT MODERN (all levels, ages 14 & up)
MONDAYS ONGOING, 6:30-8PM 
LOCATION: STUDIO4 at 25 Main St, 4th floor Northampton, MA
This modern technique class is a beginning-intermediate level class working towards a grounded and direct approach to movement, infused with somatic principles and experiential improvisations. Class work explores sensation, instinct, and the inherent musical phrasing inside the body as well as the opportunity to learn basic movement patterns and simple phrase work. 
Instructor: (Rotating) Jen Polins, Katie Martin, Jenny Bennett, Molly Fletcher Lynch
SOMATIC PRACTICES
TUESDAYS THIS FALL, 9-10AM
LOCATION: 33 Hawley St Northampton, MA
Featuring Feldenkrais, Soma Yoga, Body Mind Centering and MORE!
DANCE FOR HUMANS
WEDNESDAYS, 9-10AM
​LOCATION: 33 Hawley St Northampton, MA
Open to all levels! Get a full body work out and have fun! Dance for Humans playfully combines Chi gong and alignment warm ups, aerobics, simple dance moves, stretching and breath work. ! Wear clothes you can move and sweat in. 
Instructor: Jen Polins
ACTION THEATER™ 
THURSDAYS, 7-9PM, Dates TBD
LOCATION: STUDIO4 at 25 Main St, 4th floor Northampton, MA
​Action Theater™ training creates a structured landscape of exercises and scores from which to launch embodied physical improvisations.  By empowering embodied expression, exercises naturally feed new creative explorations.  With each exercise tailored to the varied working groups, students from beginner to advanced can find new pathways to improvisational glory.  Using this rich embodied form I seek to inspire students to new levels of creative ease and expression in every class.
Instructor: Eric Huther
INT/ADV CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES (all ages with previous experience)
FRIDAYS, 10AM-12PM
LOCATION: 33 Hawley St Northampton, MA
​This morning technique class is an intermediate/advanced highly physical class working towards a grounded and direct approach to movement, infused with somatic principles and experiential improvisations. We will focus on the volume and weight inside the body and its relationship to the floor, bring awareness to the feet, spine, and pelvic floor, encourage the feeling of release in the limbs, and articulate falling and suspending off-center. Class work explores sensation, instinct, and the inherent musical phrasing inside the body. 
Instructors: Rotating- See teaching schedule here
CONTEMPORARY LAB SERIES  
Contemporary movement practices for the community! This is a movement explorations class with a different teacher each week from the local and international field of performance studies and dance. An offering more than a "teaching" —  students will be in exploration mode with teachers based on the artists' most potent and current compositional and performative research. Be ready for different genres of dance including hip hop, improvisation, somatics and contemporary modern.
SEE UPCOMING WORKSHOPS HERE