Classes

Project: Motion modern dance classes are thoughtfully designed to develop a well rounded palate of technical skills. Students use a full range of dynamics to explore movement through space and investigate challenges within the modern vocabulary. Drop in, take a class, and be moved…


January 2012 Changes for Modern Class
Jan 9 - Guest Teacher Jhon Stronks
Jan 14 - Guest Teacher Jhon Stronks
Jan 23, 30 - Robin Sanders with Out Loud Artistry (Hip Hop) -AXIS 3 Exchange
Feb 6 - Robin Sanders with Out Loud Artistry (Hip Hop) - AXIS 3 Exchange

Do you have a burning desire to move your feet to the beat?  Join us for a tap technique class!  We will explore the basic building blocks of tap dance, with challenging options for intermediate and advanced level tappers as well.  All levels welcome. Tap shoes recommended, but not required. 

Beginning Modern Dance
Mondays 6-7:25pm
6 class session starting Jan. 30 and running through March 5
Full Session $60 or $12 for drop ins

Email info@projectmotiondance.org to register

*Note as of  Feb 1 Intermediate/Advanced Modern Technique classes will be $11 for drop in and $110 for a class card

Intermediate/Advanced
Mondays: 7:30-9pm
Classes are $10
*Taught by Wayne Smith

Intermediate/Advanced
Saturdays: 1-2:30pm
Classes are $10
*Taught by Louisa Koeppel

*Teachers are subject to change

Classes are held at TheatreWorks at 2085 Monroe. Payments can be made by check or cash.  If you purchase a class card of 10 classes, you receive 2 FREE. This does not apply to special sessions.

Wayne M. Smith: Choreographer, dancer, educator and founding director of SmithWorx Ink. Wayne’s background and training involve a range of dance and theatre experiences. He currently teaches full-time at Spelman College in the Department of Drama & Dance in Atlanta, Georgia. He teaches all levels of modern technique, jazz, theatre movement and beginning ballet in addition to choreographing for the dance and musical theatre productions. Wayne’s teaching is inclusive of diverse eclectic dance styles including influences of classical modern techniques such as Limón, Hawkins, Graham and Horton. He utilizes improvisation and theatrical ideas as well. Smith’s classes focus primarily on repertory from his personal choreographic experiences as a dance artist. His choreographic works reflect affinities or tendencies stemming from athletic activities, contemporary social dance, jazz, West African dance techniques, improvisation, and theatre. In addition, Wayne often incorporates basic movement principals of Yoga and Kinetic Awareness as a way of accessing the body for dance.

Louisa Koeppel: In the last several years, I have dedicated my dances to the love/hate relationships that people have with themselves, food, love, beauty, and the struggle to understand one's self. I explore, through the art form of dance, how mashed potatoes can comfort the coldest of souls, how a crowded subway can feel like the loneliest place in the world, and why a beautiful woman can look in a mirror and see only ugliness. By using improvisation and collaboration with my dancers, I aim to find clear movement that supports the arc of the story we are telling, to find that perfect movement, pedestrian or tricky, that is so inherent (and appropriate) to one, but not another. I want to capture through movement that feeling behind the beautiful yet awkward gesture a young girl throws to the boy whom she loves, for sometimes there is nothing more beautiful that an awkward human striving to be understood. I try to tell the stories of our collective experiences (at least as I am able to understand it) through the art form that chose me: dance. I question. Do I come up with answers? I'll leave that up to the audience. My goal is to have observers walk away and question themselves and their relationships with all the beautiful and ugly things we share .There is a freedom in recognizing that we don't have all the answers, but I feel honored to be in an art form that allows me to ask and be heard.