MOVE WITH BLiPSWiTCH

every thursday
10:00-11:30AM
East Side Performing Arts (ESPA)
979 Springdale, Suite 815. Austin, TX
$10 Pre-registration

We are proud to offer the most financially accessible year-round weekly contemporary dance class in Austin.

Class will begin with a follow along, improvisational exploration to warm up. We will investigate impulse and awareness to inform where we are and what we need to get where we want to go. This will happen in infinite ways and take on many forms in various relationships to gravity and each other. At some point, we will dabble in some arrangement of across the floor—sometimes games, sometimes partnering, sometimes free-form task-based improvisation, sometimes set choreographic ideas. Eventually we will make our way to center floor where we will focus on technique exercises inspired by various codified methods, or just learn a kick ass dance phrase—could be large and locomotive, could be small and gestural. Sometimes we will focus on floor work. Sometimes we will up-dance.

No matter what happens, it will be an hour and a half dance party seeking to inspire and challenge, set to a diverse soundscape. The ultimate goal is to enjoy ourselves, muddle through, get messy, figure shit out and sweat together in a supportive community of movers.

— Taught by co-director Alex Pruitt —

Thursday, April 9
Austin Dance Festival
Guest artist Class with Annika Sheaff

We are happy to be cooperating with Austin Dance Festival again to host one of their classes and are excited to welcome Annika Sheaff to our Thursday community! Class will remain at the standard $10 rate, but registration will go through Austin Dance Festival, linked below.

About Annika’s Class: Wish you were here— Contemporary and Monica Bill Barnes Rep

This movement class will be grounded in playfulness, humor, musicality, and exploration.  Annika Sheaff’s love for building community through movement is centered in her teaching practice. Class begins with a thorough warm-up getting everyone sweaty, smiling, and connected. We then head into igniting our imaginations through traveling phrase work, using different visuals and prompts to move generously through space. The last portion of class Sheaff will teach part of the solo choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes that she is performing in Austin Dance Festival. The solo is called Wish you were here; it is highly physical, musical, and playful!

This class is best suited for advanced/professional dancers ages 18 and up. 

Annika Sheaff performed with Pilobolus Dance Theater, Aszure Barton and Artists, and GroundWorks Dance Theater. She currently is an Assistant Professor of dance at Texas Christian University where her research focuses on embodied performance.

Learn more about Annika here.