Class Series Details

Have you been wishing for more dance in your life? This last year and a half has been brutal on the dance community. We’d like to rekindle the connections in our community, enjoy the beautiful weather, and get moving again!

Join us at the Northgate Park* tennis courts for four 1 1/2 hr long dance classes over September 22-26. See the class schedule below for dates, times, instructors, and class descriptions.

*Thursday’s class will be at the Duke Park tennis courts due to an event at Northgate that will make parking and music/sound issue difficult.

Classes are $12/class or 3/$30 or 4/$36. Payment can me made through Venmo to @Danielle-Brestel. Last four digits of phone number are 9232. We also accept cash at the door.

RSVP: Please let us know you are coming! RSVP to daniellebrestel@gmail.com. If you have any questions, please email or call Danielle at (512) 590-9232.

COVID precautions: Please bring a mask in case you would like to dance in close proximity to others who are willing to do so. There will also be plenty of space to spread out in which case you will not be required to wear a mask. Masking preferences will be discussed at the beginning of class.

Weather: If we end up with inhospitable weather conditions that cause us to cancel a class, you will be fully refunded.

Parking is available next to the tennis courts in the northeast corner of Northgate Park.

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Class Schedule

Wednesday, September 22, 5:30-7pm: Leah Wilks

Perception/Sensation/Action: we're going to do a bunch of scores - some for locating ourselves in our space, some for locating ourselves in ourselves, some to just get the juices flowing. we'll touch the ground, practice orientation/disorientation/reorientation, maybe get dirty, and hold space for one another to share our discoveries. come with whatever you got.

Leah Wilks is a mover/maker who currently oscillates between NC and Brooklyn. Right now she's interested in embodied practices for supporting transformation, adaptability, and transitions. She also spends a lot of time in the dirt planting things, fixing irrigation, and digging holes.

Thursday, September 23, 5:30-7pm: Anna M Maynard *LOCATION CHANGE: Thursday’s class will be at the Duke Park tennis courts due to an event at Northgate that will make parking and music/sound issue difficult.

Creative playing, gentle swaying, nervous system tending, simple remembering, image making. Join Anna in an afternoon of movement, improvisation and making. All levels and experience are welcome. 

Anna is an interdisciplinary creative, currently working to find simplicity and ease in the chaos of the world. She loves patterns, play and generative, emergent improvisation. Prior to the pandemic she received her MFA from Smith College as a teaching fellow and is still trying to make sense of it all.

Saturday, September 25, 2-3:30pm: Anthony “Ay-Jaye” Nelson

This modern movement class is built around the use of spirals, gravity, weight, and breathwork to facilitate ease of movement and to increase range of motion.  This class will begin with a guided warm up rooted in weightiness and breathwork and will include an improvisational score to encourage the dancer to explore various movement textures. Class will be geared toward learning and transposing combinations, examining movement qualities, and experiencing the moving body through space.

Ay-Jaye found dance as a young teenager, falling in love with the freedom of expression that movement allowed. Dancing in earnest from fifteen years on, Nelson’s career has led him to seek training in a variety of styles, building his repertoire in Contemporary, Modern, Hip-Hop and Jazz, and refining his focus in a personal style that blends these traditions. Over the past decade, Nelson has performed with renowned choreographers in the Triangle and beyond, gravitating toward emotionally charged work and contemporary pieces with a social conscience and goal of bringing movement to a broad and diverse audience. Nelson’s belief in the power of dance to change lives and the world has led him to the classroom to share the gift of movement with students of all ages and backgrounds.

Sunday, September 25, 10-11:30am: Kaitlin Fox

Yummy Bodies: Class will use some techniques from contemporary modern dance, aerobics, and Pilates to warm the body up. We will learn phrase work that relies on improvisation and intuition. Stretching and restorative activities will be sprinkled throughout.

Kaitlin Fox (she/her) also known as KFox, is a movement practitioner and choreographer. She owns and operates Yummy Pilates + Bodies and performs as a freelance dancer for BAND/Portier.