COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About the Class
Cuban Modern and Contemporary Dance is characterized by the fusion with the Graham, Limon and Cunningham techniques, Ballet and traditional Cuban dance forms, including Afro Cuban rhythms with global contemporary techniques. Emerging in the 20th century, founded by Ramiro Guerra, it reflects a vibrant cultural heritage, emphasizing improvisation and individual expression. This dance is not only a performance art, but also a powerful medium for social and political expression, showcasing themes of identity, culture and history. Dancers will navigate complex combinations that weave together polyrhythms and off-axis movement, demanding both mental focus and physical agility and strength.

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About this Class
In this class, we will explore the physical and energetic actions of opening—stretching, widening, softening, and expanding—by connecting deeply with our thinking-feeling-moving bodies. Through improvisation, we’ll engage with concepts of Introductions, Beginnings, Apertures, Gaps, Opportunities, and Chances, allowing new possibilities to emerge from our solo, duo, and group experiments.

Sometimes, using touch and contact, we move through the body’s fascinating portals—eyes, mouth, ears, and others—discovering what opens within and around us in each present practicing moment.

Improvisation, Open Class

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About this Class

In this class, we will explore the physical and energetic actions of opening—stretching, widening, softening, and expanding—by connecting deeply with our thinking-feeling-moving bodies. Through improvisation, we’ll engage with concepts of Introductions, Beginnings, Apertures, Gaps, Opportunities, and Chances, allowing new possibilities to emerge from our solo, duo, and group experiments.

Sometimes, using touch and contact, we move through the body’s fascinating portals—eyes, mouth, ears, and others—discovering what opens within and around us in each present practicing moment.

Improvisation, Open Class

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About the Class
Cuban Modern and Contemporary Dance is characterized by the fusion with the Graham, Limon and Cunningham techniques, Ballet and traditional Cuban dance forms, including Afro Cuban rhythms with global contemporary techniques. Emerging in the 20th century, founded by Ramiro Guerra, it reflects a vibrant cultural heritage, emphasizing improvisation and individual expression. This dance is not only a performance art, but also a powerful medium for social and political expression, showcasing themes of identity, culture and history. Dancers will navigate complex combinations that weave together polyrhythms and off-axis movement, demanding both mental focus and physical agility and strength.

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About this Class

These classes will explore danced movement situations to expand movement variability, mobility, strength, dynamic range and bodily awareness, while remaining attuned to the Fighting Monkey principles of training for adaptability and longevity.

The classes will include FM coordinations and task-based choreography, tools/partnered training and improvisation led in the Fighting Monkey Practice style. Importantly: this is not a “fight” practice, rather we fight our monkey minds.

In FM coordinations and task-based choreography, we work with movement sequences delivered via a full-complexity approach in order to gain insight into our learning strategies and help uncover our movement blindspots. The coordinations also train dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility. With the FM tools/partnered training, we work with instinctual/reactive movement and hone shared body empathy and communication skills necessary for partnered dancing. In the improvisation work, we mine for variability: using the specificity of a task to tune bodily self-awareness and expand movement capacity.

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Fighting Monkey is a longevity practice that values variability, adaptability and finding resilience by understanding our inherent relative fragility. Through curated “play under pressure” situations, we investigate strategies of observation, communication and learning and in this expand our movement capacity.

For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About the Class
A contemporary dance class designed to identify different levels of the nervous system through body awareness and movement availability, as well as tools to connect to internal organs. Valerie will include guided improvisations and meditations to help dancers refine their presence, as well as floor work sequences, centre combinations and occasional technical sequences moving across the floor. The aim is to be grounded in the present moment, while finding a circulation of energy in the body as a way to physically & mentally prepare for the remainder of the day. 

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About this Class

These classes will explore danced movement situations to expand movement variability, mobility, strength, dynamic range and bodily awareness, while remaining attuned to the Fighting Monkey principles of training for adaptability and longevity.

The classes will include FM coordinations and task-based choreography, tools/partnered training and improvisation led in the Fighting Monkey Practice style. Importantly: this is not a “fight” practice, rather we fight our monkey minds.

In FM coordinations and task-based choreography, we work with movement sequences delivered via a full-complexity approach in order to gain insight into our learning strategies and help uncover our movement blindspots. The coordinations also train dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility. With the FM tools/partnered training, we work with instinctual/reactive movement and hone shared body empathy and communication skills necessary for partnered dancing. In the improvisation work, we mine for variability: using the specificity of a task to tune bodily self-awareness and expand movement capacity.

_______________

Fighting Monkey is a longevity practice that values variability, adaptability and finding resilience by understanding our inherent relative fragility. Through curated “play under pressure” situations, we investigate strategies of observation, communication and learning and in this expand our movement capacity.

For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net