The class is influenced by Nelson’s over 20 years of continuing study in the work of Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein, and by more recent studies in the Alexander Technique, Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering®.

We begin with a warm-up that focuses mostly on our skeletal structure to access the deep supporting muscles of the body, allowing mobility and suppleness in the superficial muscles and emphasizing the connection to and use of the floor. The class builds from simple exercises to phrases of movement that involve moving boldly and covering space, and finding a strength, specificity and ease in our dancing.