Choreography for Zoom & Film ONLINE Class
Ages: 13+
Wednesdays, Jan 6- Mar 24 | 6-7pm
Tuition: $180
Instructor: Madeline Morser
Location: Online via Zoom

Parameters are the bread and butter of good choreography. Ironic though it may seem, our minds light up with possibilities once limitations are set. Choreographing for the camera or for a live Zoom performance provides endless limitations and therefore endless possibilities to be unlocked. This class will focus on bringing a list of choreographic tools and styles to life through the lens of a camera and/or a box on Zoom and similar platforms. The jungle of our homes, yards, parks, and beaches is in fact a choreographers best friend, but to a beginning choreographer it can look like a nightmare. The goal of this class is to shine a light on simple ways to play with, enjoy, and create within the world of social distancing.

Beginning Lyrical Dance ONLINE Class
Ages: 9-12 (Ballet 3+)
Fridays, Jan 8- Apr 2 (skip Jan 29) | 1:30-2:30 pm
Instructor: Madeline Morser
Location: Online via Zoom

A beginning level class for dancers of any dance background to learn and/or expand upon the unique emotive and graceful cadences of Lyrical Dance (traditionally known as the combination of ballet and jazz). This class encompasses a warm up focusing on flexibility and alignment, followed by phrase work and various jumps, turns, and expressive qualities.

Jazz & Hip Hop Workshop with Jessica Franco
Ages: 13+
Feb 26, 2:30-4:00pm & Feb 27, 11:00am-12:30pm
Tuition: Both days- $75 General | $60 (currently enrolled students)
For Single session-$35 (contact registrar)
Location: Online via Zoom

Workshop Description

Jessica's love of jazz, ballet, and street jazz creates a unique blend of contemporary movement that allows dancers to play with connection and expression. She aims to invite dancers to dig within themselves to discover their own artistic voice using honesty and vulnerability. A focus of musicality, texture, connection, and intention allows the dancer to play with the way the movement is experienced, seen, and felt by both the performer and the observer. Dance is more than executing moves. Dance is a feeling, an expression, storytelling, and individual artistry. Jessica creates a unique blend of movement to allow dancers to play with connection and expression. She aims to invite dancers to dig within themselves to discover their own artistic voice using honesty, vulnerability, and confidence. Utilizing the momentary connection through Zoom allows the dancer to discover and nurture their relationship to dance expression as it is portrayed on film cultivating a connection to the camera, to expand their energy and movement to be felt through a screen, and to connect deeply to themselves as they express and perform.

Contemporary Dance ONLINE Class
Ages: 13+
Mondays, Jan 4-Mar 22 | 5:45- 6:45pm
Tuition: $180
Instructor: Madeline Morser
Location: Online via Zoom

Contemporary dance is usually considered an umbrella term for the meshing of ballet, jazz, modern, and lyrical. Specific choreography varies with each instructor, but often focuses on individual dancer interpretation rhythm, and unexpected transition. This class encompasses a warm up focusing on syncopation and timing, floor work, and classical alignment, followed by challenging phrase-work that pushes the dancers ability to memorize and increase the speed of their dancing. Dancers will work on choreography to be performed in virtual Original Works project!

Beginning/Intermediate Modern ONLINE CLASS
Ages: 10+
Wednesdays, Jan 6- Mar 24 | 4:30-5:30pm
Tuition: $180
Instructor: Madeline Morser
Location: Online via Zoom

Madeline's modern class will be a combination of classical form combining technical aspects from Graham, Limon, and Taylor techniques, while also incorporating an introduction to the growing floor work focus of the Seattle dance community. Class will begin by moving in and out of the floor as a warm up and continued training in both classical and novel modern dance techniques. The second half of class will focus on both across the floor progressions, and phrase work challenging the dancer's understanding of timing and use of the floor.