Artist Master Classes

Dance Place presents Artist Master Classes with local, national and international artists to Dance Place adults and youth. Artists are often from our Presentation series and will offer community classes and workshops in combination with their Dance Place performance weekend. Schedule varies and updates are made via the Dance Place website. 

Upcoming Classes: 

FRAMEWORK: A Contemporary Technique Practice with Helanius J. Wilkins

Friday, April 5, 2024, 6:30pm – 8:00pm in the Cafritz Theater

FRAMEWORK, an evolving practice developed by Helanius J. Wilkins, is a rigorous practice that transforms technique class into a laboratory for examining, exploring, and discovering bodily movements in real time. Informed by architectural concepts, the joy of daring dance is experienced through the activity of framing and re-framing structures where individual and collective discoveries can be made. Structures, cued by action narratives that serve as a guide for participants, meld notions of space together with ways of communicating through the body.

FRAMEWORK, as a movement technique, is a viscerally charged ongoing practice, resembling a ritual that employs recovery through activity. Specific design, time, and effort modules are built resulting in choreographic phrases and expressions. By assembling structures for students to inhabit, the ultimate goal of FRAMEWORK is to question communication, refine technical ability and artistry, and interrogate one’s interior material. When fully committed to the rigors of the work, sensory engagement can be triggered bringing these architectural spaces to life.

Registration coming soon!

 

Past Classes:

A.I.M. Movement Workshop with Jamal Brown | Wednesday, February 14th, 2024

Contemporary/ Hip Hop Master Class with Embassy of Spain Artist Paula Saiz | Wednesday September 13th, 2023

Beginner Dance Workshop with Sean Dorsey Dance | Saturday May 13th, 2023

Advanced Partnering with Khecari Dance | Thursday, April 27th, 2023