Please note change of teacher from Gill Clarke to Abigail Yager: Member of Trisha Brown Company 1995-2002.

My class is designed to cultivate awareness. It trains the eye to see and analyze as well as the body to express movement. It draws on various somatic practices including The Alexander Technique, Yoga, Qi Gong and Klein Technique to look at movement from the inside out placing emphasis on anatomic efficiency, freedom in the joints, use of weight, swing, and breath.  Special attention is paid to mechanical specificity, spatial and directional clarity, points of initiation, and cause and effect.

Questions this class raises include:
•    How do we define strength?
•    Does muscular “doing” access maximum movement potential?
•    What alternate sources of power are available to us as movers?
•    What does it mean to dance into the floor rather than on top of the floor?
•    How can we use gravity and momentum to our advantage?

Other classes place more emphasis on improvisation; the role of the senses to effect change on our dancing selves; thought, reaction and impulse; dancing from various bodily systems (muscular, skeletal, articular, organic, nervous etc.)  All classes employ a mixture of these approaches in various proportions depending on class population, need and desire.