MOVE WITH BLiPSWiTCH
every thursday
10:00-11:30AM
East Side Performing Arts (ESPA)
979 Springdale, Suite 815. Austin, TX
$10 Pre-registration
Special two-hour class
THURSDAY, June 5
View the festival’s full programming here.
Co-director Alex Miller will be back June 5, just in time for East Side Performing Arts’ CONNEC(TX)IONS DANCE FESTIVAL. Our Thursday class will be expanded to two hours— 10:00AM-12:00PM— for the same $10 class rate. Please register in advance via the link to ESPA below!
We are proud to offer the most financially accessible year-round weekly dance class in Austin.
Photo: Matt Bradford (in studio rehearsal, Hyperbaton, 2024)
Class will begin with a follow along, improvisational exploration to warm up. We will investigate impulse and awareness to inform where we are at and what we need to do to get where we want to go. This can 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 yourself, muddle through, get messy, figure shit out and sweat together in a supportive community of movers.
— Taught by co-director Alex Miller —