The Dance Complex Online Schedule 5/18-5/23

All available on Facebook Live (@DanceComplex) and Instagram Live (@thedancecomplex)

MONDAY 5/18

Coffee Hour with Kledia: featuring Isaac De Los Reyes

11-12PM EST

Join The Dance Complex’s Communications Director Kledia Spiro as she interviews Dance Complex community members. This week she is joined by internationally renowned flamenco teacher/dancer/choreographer Isaac De Los Reyes.

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TUESDAY 5/19

DC Live: Salsa with Bryn Burke

7-8PM EST

Learn the fundamentals of one of the most popular club dances, LA-Style Salsa! We make it fun, with essential footwork and rhythm, leading/following, body movement and isolation, and more in an upbeat setting. No partner or experience necessary.

WEDNESDAY 5/20

Fireside Chats with Peter: featuring Hollis Bartlett, Nattie Trogdon, & Amanda Whitworth

11-12PM EST

Joined by guests, The Dance Complex’s Executive Artistic Director Peter DiMuro, will be chatting all things dance in Boston and beyond. This week he is joined by Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon, Brooklyn based performers, educators, dance makers, and partners.  Their collaborations explore the relationship between performative rigor and experienced catharsis; thriving on opportunities to test the boundaries of the human body. As well as Amanda Whitworth who is a performer, mom, interior-design wannabe, future chocolatier and lover of early hip-hop music. She collaborates across sectors to make art with impact, runs a university dance program and is New Hampshire’s current Artist Laureate.

THURSDAY 5/21

DC Live: Modern Connections with Jenny Oliver

3:30-4:30PM EST

Modern Connections is a Horton based modern dance class. Class begins with sequential and consistent warm-up, continues with center phrases that are designed to promote competence and growth of proper technique. Students are encouraged through corrections focused on alignment and detailed explanations of the initiation of movements.

FRIDAY 5/22

DC Live: Gentle Morning Jive with Kara Fili

9:30-10AM EST

Join dancer, Kara Fili, as you wake up your body, mind and soul with stretching, strengthening and dancing — all from your chair! Music from the 1930’s – present day will keep us energized throughout our workout which draws from disciplines such as yoga, pilates, tap, jazz, West African, modern and ballet dance. No dance experience necessary. Movements will be demonstrated from a seated position but can be modified to be done while standing. Classes are 30 minutes.

FRIDAY 5/22

A Night with The Dance Complex: Routes & Roots 2019

7PM EST

The Dance Complex presented Routes & Roots, gathering spectacularly talented dancers and choreographers from throughout New England and New York. Routes & Roots considers both the geographic and creative journey of the artist and how their own roots have contributed to the routes that their choreography has taken. This year’s program sought particular interest in how one’s upbringing and following journey affect spirituality, and featured artists Amirah Sackett, Jean Appolon, Aysha Upchurch, J. Michael Winward, & Soumaya MaRose in rotating repertory.

SATURDAY 5/23

DC Live: Practice + Preparedness with Hollis Bartlett & Nattie Trogdon

12-1PM

CLASS is a highly physical movement gathering questioning what do embodied practices look like in this time – in this virtual space – in our confined spaces? CLASS is heavily sensation based – there will be body conditioning, expulsive exercises, improvisation scores, at-home research, discourse and discussion; maybe phrase-work, maybe prompts, maybe readings, maybe processing, crying, sharing of feelings. Asking how can we continue to move fully and deliciously in our current parameters? We will explore all of the nuance within the body (our bodies) and mostly importantly hold space for ourselves and others – to check in on each other and attend to our deeply empathetic and resilient bodies so we can continue to practice and prepare.

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