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.
September 10
Guest Class with Celeste Camfield
“We will lie on our backs, submit to the weight of our heads, and attempt to fly across the floor. Class will start somatically and gradually build to more patterned movement. We will move across the room, in and out of the floor. There will be a phrase, there might even be counts! Kneepads optional.
Key words: invert, slice, release, swing, soften, jazz arms”
You can catch Celeste dancing in BLiPSWiTCH’s new work, An Orchestra of Supergiants, premiering September 16!
Celeste Camfield is a dance artist staggering through life between states of immense gratitude and disgust. She grew up dancing in the Texas Hill Country, and her training includes Marymount Manhattan College, P.A.R.T.S summer school, ImPulsTanz Vienna, Hubbard Street,and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Since moving back to Texas in 2019, she has been dancing with ARCOS and BLiPSWiTCH, and recently joined KDH Dance Company under the direction of Alyson Dolan. She has also had the privilege of working with Anna Bauer, Leo Briggs, Claire Brunelli, Pearl Bhatnagar, Alexa Capareda, Jairus Carr, Emily Rushing, and Sanchita Sharma. Celeste is the co-founder of PREHEAT, a dance film festival that started in her east Austin backyard in 2022.
Photo: Matt Bradford (in studio rehearsal, Hyperbaton, 2024)
Weekly class taught by co-director Alex Pruitt
“Class begins 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.”