This open-level class is suitable for both people with some Contemporary dance experience or people new to the style. You will develop your physicality while further enhancing your understanding of Contemporary dance, through technical exercises, dynamic travelling and fluid phrases.
Please note - there is no class on Wednesday 28 October.
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The course draws upon principles of a range of techniques including Release, Cunningham, Graham and Limón. These more codified ways of moving and thinking about dance are coupled with principles of Choreology (Laban-based analysis of movement) and occasionally improvisation techniques with a goal to go beyond the basics to get you to explore a fuller range of movement patterns leading to dynamic and fluid dance sequences in and out of the floor and across the space.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This open-level class is suitable for both people with some Contemporary dance experience or people new to the style. You may have done a beginners course and be ready to move up, or perhaps you are coming back to Contemporary dance after some time and want to refresh. Equally you may be completely new to the style but enjoy moving in a mixed-level group.
In order to get the most from the course you will be able to: • Follow spoken instructions. • Use numbers to recognise musical phrasing within dance and choreography • Working as a group and pairs safely.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Stay in this level of Contemporary dance, move up to intermediate, or switch dance style to Classical Ballet, Tap dance, Jazz or Musical Theatre
Orley Quick is a contemporary dancer who enjoys working within the field broadly: teaching, performing and choreographing among other roles. Recently she has been making dance performance work collaboratively with other dance artists for theatres and unconventional performance spaces, and she is always excited to find new and challenging ways of working. As a late starter to formal training, this has definitely shaped her approach and urgency to teach dance. Orley loves to work with as many different types of people as possible, with a firm belief that everyone should be able to access dance classes, and that there are benefits for everyone to be dancing, even if you don’t want to be on stage! Orley thoroughly enjoys teaching at City Lit, and all the people she gets to move with here. She wants her students to have a great time, let go and connect to their bodies and those around them, whilst working safely, efficiently and consciously. Alongside her teaching work for City Lit, she trains dancers vocationally in FE colleges, runs workshops and co-founded and teaches for BOTH Dance Classes.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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These more codified ways of moving and thinking about dance are coupled with principles of Choreology (Laban-based analysis of movement) and occasionally improvisation techniques with a goal to go beyond the basics to get you to explore a fuller range of movement patterns leading to dynamic and fluid dance sequences in and out of the floor and across the space.</p><p>This open-level class is suitable for both people with some Contemporary dance experience or people new to the style. You will develop your physicality while further enhancing your understanding of Contemporary dance, through technical exercises, dynamic travelling and fluid phrases.</p><p>Please note - there is no class on Wednesday 28 October.</p>,<p>This open-level class is suitable for both people with some Contemporary dance experience or people new to the style. 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Equally you may be completely new to the style but enjoy moving in a mixed-level group.</p><p><br>In order to get the most from the course you will be able to:<br>• Follow spoken instructions.<br>• Use numbers to recognise musical phrasing within dance and choreography<br>• Working as a group and pairs safely.</p><p>Stay in this level of Contemporary dance, move up to intermediate, or switch dance style to Classical Ballet, Tap dance, Jazz or Musical Theatre</p>DanceContemporary danceconfigurable
