Nicole Wolcott Contemporary Workshop

Nicole Wolcott is coming to Peridance!
May 24, 2010 - May 28, 2010; Mon - Fri
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Her vigorous class combines the virtuosity of classical technique and the release of post-modern dance with Wolcott’s own dramatic idiosyncrasies. The result is a quirky but highly athletic aesthetic. Material for this class is drawn from various techniques and movement styles including Limon, hip-hop, ballet, Gaga, and pop culture. Sense of humor required.

Nicole Wolcott is a choreographer, teacher and performance artist based in New York City. She has been performing with dance companies, rock bands and video artists around the country for sixteen years. In 2002 Nicole co-founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY with Larry Keigwin and was the company's Associate Artistic Director until 2009.

Her choreography has been performed in New York City at Symphony Space, the Frying Pan, Galapagos, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, CBGB's, Monkeytown, PS122, DTW and around the country at Summerdance Santa Barbara, The University of Utah, Bates Dance Festival, Florida Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival.

Sean Curran Spring Workshop

Choreographer Sean Curran returns to Peridance to teach 2 weeks of master classes!

Apr 19, 2010 - Apr 30, 2010;
Mon - Fri 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

An Irish step dancer as a young boy from Boston, Massachusetts, Séan Curran was a lead dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and an original member of the off-Broadway hit Stomp.

Mr. Curran explores aspects of movement that use gravitational pulls to expand dynamic ranges and awaken spatial relations between inner and outer focus. He brings these skills into his workshop to enrich the students' understanding of action, phrasing, and timing.

Sidra Bell Dance NY Workshop

SIDRA BELL returns to Peridance for a new workshop in April!

Apr 12, 2010 - Apr 16, 2010; Mon - Fri
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Sidra Bell has crafted a unique approach to unlocking the creative potential in each dancer. In a workshop that explores an articulate body through effort, risk, impulse, breath, gesture, weight, touch, space, direction and line, artists of various backgrounds and experience can discover their individual voice and physical potential. Throughout the workshop phrase work from the repertory of Sidra Bell Dance New York will be introduced. The phrase work challenges the dancers to investigate an extreme sense of physicality and specificity. They are asked to use their imagination and intellect to find a greater sense of freedom within the movement.

Guest Teacher Kota Yamazaki

Take a "Fluid" Technique Class with Guest Teacher Kota Yamazaki!

Apr 19, 2010 - Apr 23, 2010; Mon, Wed, Fri
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

What is Fluid Technique?

Kota Yamazaki states: In this class, dancers use their sensibility and awareness for small vibrations happening within joints or muscles as body moves. Exercise such as shifting contact-points between feet and floor continuously will result in increasing dancers’ awareness for vibration which travels from feet up through body. Floor and center exercises are aimed at releasing muscles and joints so that the coordination of whole body will become smooth. These ideas will make complicated physical and spacial movements more available to the body.

Originally from Japan, Kota formed his New York based company, Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug, in 2002. The company has performed at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, PICA/TBA Festival, NUS for the Arts, DTW, 92Y Harkness Dance Festival, Painted Bride Art Center, Dance New Amsterdam, and the Columbia College Dance Center. Kota is a recipient of the New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Award), which he received for his collaboration with Senegalese choreographer, Germaine Acogny.

FREE Flamenco Master Class

AMAZING OPPORTUNITY! Peridance offers a FREE Flamenco Master Class with Victorio Korjhan!

Thursday, March 25
8:30-10:00pm

Former ballet soloist of the Metropolitan Opera, and scholarship student at Juilliard, Sarah Lawrence, and the Martha Graham School, Victorio studied flamenco in Spain for seven years. Victorio has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe with guest appearances at Carnegie Hall, Radio City, Madison Square Garden, the Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl, the MGM Hotel, and Royal Albert Hall in London. Victorio has taught Spanish dance to soloists of the Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and to the Broadway cast of "Forever Tango". He has also given master classes in Flamenco at universities and dance academies throughout the U.S., including the Alvin Ailey School, Dance Theatre of Harlem, American Ballet School, Northeastern Illinois and Northwestern Universities, Cornell, and The Boston Conservatory.

No Pre-Registration necessary!
Please arrive 15 minutes early to sign in and secure your place!