Open Flight Studio

The Connective Tissue Series is a movement-based improvisational practice that enables us to mindfully link the relationship of our own physical tissue to the more metaphorical connections that allow us to be seen and heard in everyday life. This series invites you to personally experience your own unique molecular nuances, sense them, understand them, grow them, and ultimately integrate them into surrounding portals of connectivity. Class will consist of an improv based warm up followed by phrase work.

This is an hour and half of guided explorations around the inherent relationship between sound and the body. Class will begin with short vocal warmups to prepare the body for wider expressivity and auditory attunement. We will quickly start incorporating movement and gestures to investigate how our physicality is shaped by our melodic prosody and vice versa. This is a class that puts into action how our physicality reflects the sonic textures residing in the body.

Horton Basics and Contemporary Choreography Students will learn foundational exercises of the Lester Horton dance technique, a modern dance technique first developed during the 1920s-40s that is still practiced today by many schools and companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Students will then learn phrases from Robbi’s own choreography and also create their own creative phrases using the material they learned.

Class will begin with a short somatic and improvised warm-up, progressing to floor and standing exercises and finishing with standing phrasework. Pedagogical influences include improvisation, contemporary floorwork, Release Technique and Countertechnique. Phrasework is driven by detail, endurance, musicality, choice-making and joy. This class is well-suited for advanced/professional movers.

We begin with locating ourselves/one another through grounding and improvisational practices before exploring phrase-work and a combo. We will work with sensation, visualization, states of being and memory to work with energy in the space, feel into our truth and play more. As we open the channels of the body, we release our grip on what we think we should do/be and tune our intuition to gently encourage our desire/truth to move through us in integrity. We will generate responsiveness (self-responsibility) so we can meet ourselves at our edge, and then laugh about it.

We begin with locating ourselves/one another through grounding and improvisational practices before exploring phrase-work and a combo. We will work with sensation, visualization, states of being and memory to work with energy in the space, feel into our truth and play more. Class is a place you are welcome to explore the inward/outward dynamic of your multidimensional body in relationship to self, others, objects, concepts, place, and space.

This class utilizes contact improvisation as a tool for influencing solo body movement. Using touch and guided partnering scores we will delve into the “What If?” of technical phrases and how dancers can shift the attention of their body to encourage the multitudes of initiation points and textures of a given phrase.

Lucie is offering a 4 class series at Open Flight Studios focused on supporting professional and advanced contemporary dancers in deepening their practice. Dancers will cultivate awareness, coordination, strength, and expressive articulation through juicy breath-based phrase work and playful improvisations. The class draws on Limón movement principles paired with contemporary floor work and somatic skill building. We will drop our weight, move our joints, play with momentum, and embody our souls.