The Movement Project

This one week intensive is geared for serious-minded dancers interested in furthering themselves as creative artists and who wish to deepen and grow their technical and performance knowledge. This intensive provides a rigorous daily schedule in professional training, creative practice and rehearsals taught by TMP artistic directors, company members, as well as notable guest artists in the dance community. The program will focus on modern dance technique, contemporary, ballet, improvisation, composition, House, injury prevention, and somatic practices. In addition to movement courses, the program includes courses designed to prepare young artists for a career in dance, such as, resume building, dance on film and marketing. As part of our marketing course, each artist will receive dance action shots for their portfolio.

A joyful and energetic contemporary class fostering community and inviting artistic exploration. Concepts such as improvisation, breath work, sequencing, and floor work will be explored and progressed towards dynamic phrase work.

Let's talk about the they, you, how, when, who, where, and why of exploration and story telling through contemporary movement forms and task-based improvisation. This class connects you to you, you to them, and them to we as we explore movement levels, negative space, concept, emotion, and connection.

This class is informed by release technique, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Floorwork, and Lucy Dillon’s training in Africanist forms such as Jazz, House, and West African. Class will begin with guided improvisation, move into skills to challenge coordination and adaptability, and end with choreography that challenges group connectivity and individual choice-making. Class will encourage dancers to seek efficient, enlivened movement that utilizes a personal sense of momentum and excites the thrill of bodies moving together.

This class blends classical and contemporary ballet techniques with conditioning tailored to the needs of dancers (1 hour ballet + 30 minutes conditioning). Emphasizing an anatomical approach, the focus is on achieving clear, efficient movement through proper bone alignment and functional muscle use. Dancers are encouraged to take artistic risks, explore personal movement quality, and think independently. The ballet curriculum draws from Vaganova, Cecchetti, and Balanchine techniques.

This class explores the core principles of space, time, and energy, emphasizing a qualitative approach to movement. Dancers will engage with a range of modern and contemporary techniques, focusing on weight, effort, spatial and physical awareness, and movement clarity. Classes include improvisation, phrase work, and opportunities for risk-taking and play.

Co-taught by Safety Release (SR) Master Teachers, Caitlyn Schrader and kt williams, this master class will focus on the principles of SR Technique, offering an intermediate/advanced approach to foundational contemporary dance technique. Class will dive deeply into the full somatic structure of Safety Release. Class is evenly split between floor work and big, traveling movement phrases: the warm-up will function as a somatic movement laboratory and will progress into standing and physically rigorous traveling patterns that challenge directionality, weight shift, counter balance, and suspended movement.

Release and claim space in community! This class will explore floorwork and dynamic range while encouraging experimentation and freedom of artistry. I encourage you to have socks, long pants, and a shirt that covers your shoulders available for ease of moving through the floor. Let’s move together!

Odissi, one of the oldest classical dance forms of India, traces its origins to the temples of Odisha, where it was performed as a sacred offering to deities. Known for its graceful and lyrical movements, Odissi beautifully blends fluid upper body gestures with strong, grounded footwork, creating a harmonious balance between elegance and strength. Everyday stories, as told by class participants, will be elaborated with basic Odissi movements and hand gestures, culminating in a small routine.

Through classical/contemporary ballet techniques and terminology. The class will focus on working from an anatomical approach, creating honest and sound movement. By removing any preconceived notions of what dancers should look like, dance like and be capable of, dancers can focus on the correct placement of bones, allowing muscles to function effortlessly and efficiently. Dancers are encouraged to take artistic risk, think independently and to explore their qualitative approach to movement. The ballet curriculum will include Vaganova, Cecchetti, and Balanchine techniques.

With over 19 years of experience in breaking, Jonathan will guide participants in a workshop combining acrobatic techniques, contemporary dance and contact improvisation to explore original movement creation to flow into and out of the floor as a solo body. The workshop will take contact improvisation techniques to merge with breaking, and contemporary floorwork. It is highly recommended that participants wear kneepads for this master class.