DANCE AND Adult Classes
Early Winter 6week Series
Dec 1-Jan24
Sunday
11:00am-12:15pm -- Sunday Service - with Emma Manion
Experience joy, expressiveness and freedom of movement in this high-energy (but low pressure) class. Blending popular and global music & dance styles for an invigorating workout while exploring fundamentals of choreography.
Tuesday
10am-11am -- Graceful Aging: Beginning Ballet for your Golden Years - with MC DeBelina
A class geared towards dancers over 50, focusing on ballet technique, but mostly the joy of dance! Come Plié and tendu with us. All movements modifiable to all abilities.
5:15pm-6:30pm -- Breath and Balance - with MC DeBelina
Meditation, breathwork, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and choreography that is all about balance. Come release the tension of the day and re-connect to yourself.
6:30pm-8pm -- Beg/Int Jazz - with MC DeBelina
All level basic Jazz Dance Class! This class starts with a classic studio jazz dance warm-up, including isolations, cardio, and good old fashion stretching. We'll move into basic jazz steps and across the floor moves, explore theater jazz styles, and learn phrases that can be modified to all levels.
Wednesday
10:30am-12pm -- Improvisation Exploration - with Willow Wonder
An improvisational practice. Come play!
5:15pm-6:30pm -- Rhythm & Motion - with Emma Manion
JOIN Emma Manion-Kohr in this high energy, dance exercise class! Read more about this awesome program here: https://www.rhythmandmotion.com/
6:30pm-8pm -- Int Modern Dance - with Ann Bosse
This class aims to allow dancers the space to work on their strength, flexibility, artistry, and technique through exploring movement phrases designed to challenge the mind and body. Ann brings her diverse training in modern dance styles ranging from classical to post modern to this class.
Thursday
5:15pm-6:30pm -- Beg Fusion - with Eli Francis
Perfect class for the beginner adult or former dancer looking to get back into the studio. This class will introduce dancers to a variety of styles of dance - looking at the connections between and among Jazz, Ballet, Hip-Hop, and Modern. Different styles woven together for a fun, judgement free, introduction or re-introduction into the joy of dance.
6:30pm-7:45pm -- Beg/Int Ballet - with Willow Wonder
A classical ballet class for the beginner or intermediate dancer. Come dance with Willow Wonder in technical yet fun atmosphere.
Ann Bosse has been a body in motion since childhood. She formally began taking dance class at age 15 in Philadelphia, PA. Her first exposure to modern dance was a Graham technique class with the esteemed Pat Thomas at The University of the Arts summer program. It was love at first contraction. Ann went on to study dance in college earning her B.S. in Dance Performance and Choreography from Skidmore College in 1999. During her years at Skidmore Ann was fortunate to be able to study with and perform the works of Ellen Sinopoli, Kenneth Topping, Niles Ford, Garth Fagan Dance and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
Bio: A Vermont native with a B.A. in Dance and Humanities from Bennington College, Emma Manion exercises a lifelong fascination with the human body’s composition, capabilities, means of creative expression, and direct link to quality of life. Her work as a Dance Instructor, Personal Trainer, and Choreographer illustrates her passion for moving with curiosity alongside mechanical awareness. Her performative works historically involve theatrics and humor with every choreographed count and detail poured over, but lately leaning into vulnerability/knot knowing/surrendering to spontaneity has been a favorite way to play.
MC DeBelina is the owner and director of Dance And Movement Center in Barre, VT - an inclusive dance studio for all ages and abilities.
MC DeBelina’s focus since 2008 has been primarily teaching children creative dance and raising her growing family. MC studied Biology and Dance at Dartmouth College (B.A. 2005) and combined her two passions at Sarah Lawrence College receiving an MFA in Dance (2008). Her thesis work focused on the links between science and art.
Willow started on her dance path at a very young age on the West Coast. After graduating high school from the San Francisco School of the Arts, she went on to complete a BFA degree in Modern Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase and the London Contemporary School of Dance. After dancing briefly in a Belly Dance Company based in NYC, she moved to VT in 2000 and began teaching, choreographing and performing. She taught at Moving Light Dance for 10 years and was an integral part of the creation of The Green Mountain Nutcracker. She now teaches at Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio in Montpelier. She also teaches Pilates classes and privates at Essential PT and Pilates and continues to work with an array of VT based Dance artists such as Hannah Dennison, Polly Motley and Paul Besaw. Her passion for Improvisation is strong and all began in a class taught by Neil Greenberg called Advanced Improvisation at SUNY Purchase in 1997. Thanks Neil!
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