Dance Techniques
Contemporary Dance Technique
This class integrates established dance techniques including Horton, Dunham, flying low, improvisation, ballet, and African Diaspora movement practices with the instructor’s original choreographic language. Grounded in mindfulness and embodied awareness, the course develops technical rigor, versatility, strength, refined core control, and
This class integrates established dance techniques including Horton, Dunham, flying low, improvisation, ballet, and African Diaspora movement practices with the instructor’s original choreographic language. Grounded in mindfulness and embodied awareness, the course develops technical rigor, versatility, strength, refined core control, and enhanced performance quality.
Classwork emphasizes spiraling, pathway development, sliding and rolling actions, dynamic movement initiation, jumping, and a clear relationship to the floor. Dancers engage in physically demanding phrases that require speed, precision, and efficient energy release, strengthening the connection between the center and the extremities. Focus is placed on safe and effective strategies for moving into and out of the floor.
Mindfulness is embedded through breath awareness, somatic attention, and intentional movement to support sustained focus, effort management, and kinesthetic sensitivity. Warm up and phrase work explore expansion, strength, weight, momentum, and release, preparing dancers for dynamic technical demands. Through this integrated approach, dancers cultivate physical resilience, technical adaptability, performance presence, creativity, and expressive clarity across diverse movement vocabularies.
Lester Horton Technique
This class teaches Horton Technique through the pedagogical lineage of the late James Truitte, former member of the Lester Horton Dance Theatre and a leading authority on the technique. Rooted in this approach, the class emphasizes technical precision, anatomical efficiency, and the development of adaptable, versatile dancers.
Horton Techn
This class teaches Horton Technique through the pedagogical lineage of the late James Truitte, former member of the Lester Horton Dance Theatre and a leading authority on the technique. Rooted in this approach, the class emphasizes technical precision, anatomical efficiency, and the development of adaptable, versatile dancers.
Horton Technique promotes structural integrity, full body integration, and efficient movement to support injury prevention and long term physical sustainability. Classwork develops strength, resiliency, flexibility, endurance, postural alignment, balance, coordination, isolations, and musical sensitivity through progressively challenging sequences.
Developed by Lester Horton in Los Angeles during the 1930s through 1950s, the Horton Technique is a foundational form of American modern dance. This course engages the technique as both a historical legacy and a dynamic contemporary practice that supports diverse choreographic demands and embodied intelligence.
Afro-Contemporary
Afro-Contemporary
This class integrates African Diasporic movement practices including Bomba from Puerto Rico, Afro-Caribbean, Dunham Technique, and Afro Caribbean dance with elements of modern and jazz. Rooted in a Pan African aesthetic, the course honors shared African lineages while engaging their distinct cultural and historical contexts.
Classwork expl
This class integrates African Diasporic movement practices including Bomba from Puerto Rico, Afro-Caribbean, Dunham Technique, and Afro Caribbean dance with elements of modern and jazz. Rooted in a Pan African aesthetic, the course honors shared African lineages while engaging their distinct cultural and historical contexts.
Classwork explores rhythm, musical dialogue, individual expression, and collective response as living practices connected to contemporary embodied experience. Structured warm ups and phrase work develop flexibility, strength, stamina, groundedness, polyrhythmic coordination, floorwork, and spatial awareness. Breath and energetic intention support clarity, expressivity, and sustained performance quality.
Through this approach, dancers build physical rigor, versatility, and cultural awareness while deepening their embodied understanding of African Diasporic aesthetics as both artistic practice and lived knowledge.