About the Course
This class focuses on the foundations of contemporary dance, particularly Cunningham technique. Students will work on balance, flexibility, and spatial awareness, as well as differentiating movement quality. In addition to learning movement, students will also have the opportunity to collaborate and create movement together. This class utilizes a “Natural Body Development” approach, through integrating breath-work with weight and gravity shifting. This movement class focus is to use philosophies of internal and external energies and how the two are mutually generating the physical body. We also plan to be exploring different body systems and movement qualities as instruments in the development of an expanded movement repertoire. This class will use an assortment of media elements, including dance, painting, sound, theater and video.
Advanced Seminar is designed for high-school students.
Your Instructor
Kathleen Gale and Caroline Lauck
A student of Halestone for the past 15 years, Gale brings a practiced knowledge of studio approaches in improvisation, modern and contemporary theories of movement, and a deep sense of our movement community. Kathleen danced and honed her movement artistry under past Halestone directors and teaching artists Nancy Saylor, Chanel Smith, Julia Vessey, Bailey Anderson, Mauri Conners, Molly Smith, and Kaitlin Pennington. She’s taught clogging and elementary modern classes since 2022, and directed “Obscure Sorrows”and other pieces for Halestone’s spring recitals. Kathleen has a passion for integrating visual, performing, and written arts as well as instilling anatomical awareness into her students.