Monday, January 13 - Saturday, January 18
Located in the Winter Living Room, Mansion
All classes are intermediate/advanced level.
Tuesday, January 14 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
with Zak Ryan Schlegel
$18 (Pre-registration is encouraged)
Class is initiated with breath work before moving into shape shifting layers of somatic long form, floor driven architectural choreography.
Thursday, January 16 7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
with Adrian Hoffman
$18 (Pre-registration is encouraged)
Class will seek to change our relationship to gravity and harness it to generate momentum. Progressions across the floor and set phrase material.
Saturday, January 18 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
with Zak Ryan Schlegel + Adrian Hoffman
$22 (Pre-registration is encouraged)
For their final workshop Zak and Adrian will come together to blend their modalities of floor work, release, and momentum to guide you through a series of movement exercises and generative phrase work.
Zak Ryan Schlegel is a performer with Shen Wei, creative director of CONGRESS and educator at The Joffrey Ballet School. His work has been presented from The Juilliard School in NYC to Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA and is a three-time Outstanding Choreographer of the Youth America Grand Prix. The New York Times calls him “a star” & Wall Street Journal “eye-catching & effortless”. He creates from an extensive research of Eastern and Western movement traditions adjacent to philosophy and spirituality.
Adrian Hoffman (they/he) currently lives in Los Angeles working as a dancer and choreographer. Previously they have been a company member of Whim W'Him, a guest dancer with Mark Morris, Alvin Ailey and BODYTRAFFIC, danced in music videos for Blink-182 and Justin Beiber among others, freelanced on stage, TV, ad campaigns and film and appeared as a featured dancer in Greta Gerwig’s recent remake of Little Women. Adrian is also the Artistic Facilitator and founder of Cantankerous Creatures, a Boston based dance project seeking to strengthen the dance community with kindness and active audience engagement.