Collective Creation
This class explores momentum, weight, body and space through dance improvisation. This will be a collaborative class we’re we exploring creating together based on given concepts or themes. The focus will be on externalizing the internal and co-creating movement through shared feelings and experiences.
Contemporary
Dynamic warm-up exercises, guided meditation, movement exploration and phrase work. This class holds space for participants to find their inner strength, refine their technical skills, explore their passion to move and learn to let go. I invite the participants to make their own choices within the movement and to approach each step with clarity and confidence.
Tap Technique
A beginning to intermediate tap technique class focusing on rhythm and creating your own music.
Breath + Improvisation
In this class, we will utilize the energy of our breath to explore movement. Class will begin with a short meditation and yoga warmup as we connect to breath which will then evolved into the idea of dance improvisation guided by breath.
moving our bodies through space
this class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space
Heels
Shannon’s heels class offers the community a way to step into their power through dance.The main goal for class is for everyone to leave feeling more confident, but you will also leave with a better understanding of weight placement, how to transfer your weight in heels, and other concepts pertaining to heels technique.
moving our bodies through space - This class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space.
Dance Meditation - Through the medium of dance, we will investigate the connection between breath and movement, utilizing improvised movement along with simple prompts and imagery to assist us throughout the class.
Indian Folk Dance and Bollywood
Urban Fusion - Intermediate to Advanced urban movement with Hip hop elements fused together.
Contemporary - Integrating and borrowing values from modern, post-modern, and classical traditions, this class is rooted in a very technical base, with an emphasis on precision and clarity. Nevertheless, the class unfolds in ways that allow for a sense of release. Bliss’ affinities for gestural intricacy, rhythmic complexity, articulation of the spine and other joints, and quick changes of weight, result in a full-bodied, qualitatively diverse, physically demanding, and exhilarating class! Students will be challenged to find their own voices within an innovative style.
Composing in Motion - Beginning with a full-bodied warm-up that utilizes elements of improvisation to engage and awaken the senses, we will progress through explorations of levels and textual dynamics that establish/re-enforce the dancers’ relationship to the floor and to the surrounding space as we figure out what we want to say together in this fleeting moment in time. The class will steadily build in physicality and complexity toward a full-body phrase that writes a new idea/story/being in the space.
moving our bodies through space - This class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space.
Move Write Move - A journey into the poetics of contemporary movement both in space and on the page
Modern Contemporary - Movement explorations and how they differ when using your voice!
moving our bodies through space - This class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space.
Modern Contemporary - Movement explorations and how they differ when using your voice!
Modern Contemporary - Movement explorations and how they differ when using your voice!
moving our bodies through space - This class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space.
moving our bodies through space - this class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space
Dance Meditation - Through the medium of dance, we will investigate the connection between breath and movement, utilizing improvised movement along with simple prompts and imagery to assist us throughout the class.
Carissa Bishop is starting out our community class series with an edge into contemporary. Explore musicality and falling in an authentic fashion finding who you are in the space and challenging your individually.
For the Joy of...—In honor of Juneteeth and PRIDE Month, let's make a joyous ruckus and move together. This class is part guided improv, part creation, part free-style, and all alchemy. For an hour and a half, let's dedicate some time to celebrating ancestry, where we are now, and life.
Carissa Bishop is starting out our community class series with an edge into contemporary. Explore musicality and falling in an authentic fashion finding who you are in the space and challenging your individually.
work and (re)work—this class is about creating and deconstructing. we will start with combo that we will manipulate using Oblique Strategies and other composition techniques. the purpose is not to create a choreography necessarily, but to dive deep into limit(lessness) of instant composition.
moving our bodies through space - this class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space
Weighted spirals - Where am I? Am I where I think I am? This class will focus on navigating deliberate pathways through space -- using spirals and weight to identify, move, and ride lines/axes of energy. Starting with a warm-up focused on sensation and joint articulation, we will move toward a final phrase that utilizes our fullest awareness of space and direction.
low-key ballet - this class explore the classical form through breath, imagery, and sensation. time will be spent (re)discovering the many relationships the body and the space can have moving in and through various shapes. there are no mirrors for this hour and a half session, challenging dancers to sense their bodies fully.
moving our bodies through space - this class incorporates ideas + approaches from modern + contemporary dance, lyrical jazz, countertechnique and floorwork. come for juicy, full-bodied movement, stay for the fun jams. some things I’ve been thinking about lately: how my feet interact with the floor, relating body parts to one another as well as points in space, feeling the wind across my skin as I move, how my gaze informs my movement, how good it feels to move my body through space
Responding Sensationally-this class explores and dives into the senses, focusing on deep listening and body awareness. Dancers will be guided through a series of improvisational prompts in which the duration will increase in over time. This class will fluctuate between movement and discussion—you will be asked to move with your eyes closed.
