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
Drawing on both classical ballet and modern dance, this class explores total body movement. Classes begin with barre work, followed by centre, and ends with traveling work including jumps and across the floor sequences. It is a highly physical dance 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
Utilizing principles of human movement from the Alexander Technique combined with concepts from the Pilates Method, we will work through an anatomically sound movement sequence directed towards the specific requirements of the dancer. We will look at spinal sequencing, pelvis and spine stability, freedom and stability of the shoulder girdle, and freedom, stability and balance at the hip joint. Susan is happy to address any specific questions or issues.

Please have a mat, theraband and large towel for 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
rawing on both classical ballet and modern dance, this class explores total body movement. Classes begin with barre work, followed by centre, and ends with traveling work including jumps and across the floor sequences. It is a highly physical dance 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
TBA

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
GYROKINESIS® is a method that was created by dancer Juliu Horvath and is intended to bring the body to a balanced sense of ease, while creating strength and flexibility for all of the body systems. Drawing from elements of yoga, dance, tai chi and swimming, we will flow through movement sequences using breath as the engine. This method is taught throughout the world, and is enjoyed by many for its circular and spiraling movements that are uplifting and regenerative. 

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
With the use of props provided, the class would integrate somatic practice, fascial intelligence, and contemporary movement, exploring how dancers can cultivate embodied presence, efficiency, and sustainable performance over extended periods of time. Rather than focusing on endurance through effort, it would investigate nervous system regulation, breath, rebound, weight, adaptability, and recovery within movement—qualities that support both durational performance and contemporary dance practice more broadly while also working with materiality.

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