Masterclass with Wanjiru Kamuyu

Master Contemporary Dance Technique Classes are designed to provide the pre-professional and professional a solid dance training experience that deepens technical and artistic sensibilities all while having fun. The dancer is encouraged to question, explore self-identifcation, and experiment with their relationship to dance and space while taking risks. The movement experience cultivates an intelligent and conscious mind/body awareness, with a strong emphasis on the dancer’s efficient use of effort and energy flow.

Set to recorded contemporary music, the class organically unfolds with a somatic approach centered around breath, sensation and imagination, which leads to structured excercises that focus on gravity, release, weight shifting, flexibility, stamina, endurance, spinal and pelvic range of motion and strengthening, all in preparation for challenging and fun choreographic sequences. The contemporary movement vocabulary draws from the rich traditions and aesthetics of modern (Horton, Dunham), release, ballet, African, Butoh and yoga techniques, blended together to create a delicious movement experience. Above all, play and pleasure are at the core of the movement experience!