Adult Movement Classes with Sam Stone
Short Sell: My class is a kinesthetic rollercoaster. A space for choice-making and for adaptability. A lab for students to turn to one another for answers and for asking further questions. An opportunity to express and be seen. A music-filled, beast-unleashing, get down, good time, delight!
What Class Might Include: This is a ‘modern dance’ class, which can mean many things. My class tends to take joy in off-kiltered, level-changing, momentum-driven, anatomy-focused, rhythm-playing movement.
My favorite movement words are fall & recover, sweep, swing, twist, devour, wait, weight, toss, scoop, reach, gather, twizzle. Yes, twizzle.
What Class ACTUALLY looks like: Class begins with a warmup that awakens our proprioceptive systems, whether through work with the floor, partner, or space. I then carry a movement concept through improvisational research, we often then come into discussion or writing. From here, I offer short-set movement phrases that guide us in and out of the floor, wake up our attention to the self and others, and play with timing and/or music. Class might end with a sharing of set choreography (as built by smaller learned parts) or some other kind of focus towards fellow dancers’ discoveries. If we are smiling and sweating I have done my job.