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Preview: The Dancer's Perfect Walk Open Level Workshop
Learn how to evolve a series of steps in to the perfect sure-footed walk, filled with confidence, charisma, and sex appeal. We will break down and practice two walking sequences, both in basic versions and more ornamented variations. The first half of the program teaches a basic gliding walk that...
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Preview: “Scheherezade” Intermediate/Advanced Class Series
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Preview: To Morocco from the Stars Intermediate Class Series
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Preview: Absolute Beginner 8-Week Course
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Preview: Style My Hipdrop Workshop
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Preview: "The River" Intermediate Course
“The River” is a four part series for intermediate and advanced dancers, and we're working with movements inside a theatrical fantasy choreography. The second half of the dance, covered in lessons 3 and 4, uses a veil. Each lesson is about an hour long.
The music is almost all instrumental, but...
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Prevew: Lessa Faker Intermediate Class Series
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Preview: Hip Open and Close
You know how when you really know a move, you barely have to think about it, or really you don’t even think about it at all, your body just does it for you? This program will help you to build more of that body wisdom, and to cultivate it not just in moves but in the flow between moves, in transi...
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Preview: Lush Travel Sequences Workshop
Practice clean details that make entrance and travel sequences look polished, professional, and fully put together. Building on a simple footwork sequence–step-hold, step, step–we create interest by layering multiple variations on our steps and holds. The layers we combine include: chest drop acc...
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Preview: "Ismail" Intermediate/Advanced Course
Put a “velvet glove” on your drum solo, and learn a complete choreography that commands attention without aggressive styling or hard edges. Going light on the shimmies and locks, we’ll instead use a mixture of crisp and juicy movements that reflect the musicality of the drum, showcasing isolation...
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Preview: Veil Step-by-Step Masterclass
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PREVIEW Elastic Fantastic: “To Morocco With the Stars,” Combo 1
We prepare with a short warmup and technique flow, then learn and practice a detailed 32-count combo. Our vocabulary today includes undulations and circles, and our sequence emphasizes elastic phrasing, drawing out the timing of preparations then “snapping” back in.
Elastic Fantastic is a quick ...
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Preview: Textured Flow: "From Morocco to the Stars" Combo 2 Intermediate Class
In this quickie 35-minute class for intermediates, we dance through a 32-count combo with pivots, full-body undulations, and fast double drops, Our music is “To Morocco With the Stars” from the album My House is the Sky by Mundi, starting at about the 1:13 mark. Textured Flow is part of a series ...
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Preview: Glide-Anchor-Pull: “To Morocco With the Stars,” Combo 3
After a short warmup and technique flow, learn and practice a little over a minute of easy-paced choreography with three distinct sections: gliding travel steps and turns; an earthy shimmy; and slow sinuous vertical-plane up figure-8s. This 48-minute class is suggested for dancers at or above a l...