Core Class - Thursday, March 21st, 10 am to 11:30 am

Thursday, March 21st, 10 am to 11:30 am
Class Instructor: Sarah Konner

Class Description: In this class we’re going to move, improvise, do floor work, learn phrases, breathe, sweat, shake it out, see, be seen, and work with both anatomical forms and imagination to find physical and expressive range. Bring your bodies as they are and invite your images and curiosities to join. We will take time to soften our edges, find our weight bodies, activate into clarity, and to consider alignment is everywhere. 

My teaching draws from release technique, CounterTechnique, contact improvisation, and somatic practices including Body-Mind Centering and Alexander Technique. Using these tools and perspectives we will build more proficiency, ease, and creativity with changing levels, going upside down, balance, moving through space, and articulation. We will play between internal and external; complexity and simplicity; decisiveness and following the unfolding; musicality and risking the weight.

Instructor Bio: Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser and educator interested in dance as a process of evolution, a way to understand our connections, and a means of storytelling. She creates dance-theater work shown at performance venues, universities, and museums across the country including Judson Church, Danspace Project, Dance New Amsterdam, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Berkshire Fringe Festival, A.W.A.R.D. Show! Philadelphia, the Kennedy Center, and a site-specific performance at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has had the pleasure of working with Austin Selden, Jeanine Durning, Jenna Reigel, Sara Shelton Mann, ChavasseDance&Performance, Shura Baryshnikov, Megan Kendzior, Alex Springer and Xan Burley, Headlong Dance Theater, and setGo Performance Improvisation Ensemble. Sarah teaches in the northeast US and internationally— recently on faculty at Wesleyan University, Amherst College, Smith College, Movement Research, Gibney Dance, and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Sarah holds an MFA in Dance at Smith College, a BFA in Dance and a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan, and is certified in Yoga, Pilates, and Body-Mind Centering®. www.SarahandAustinDance.com

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Core Dance opens its doors to the public every weekday. Spanning multiple disciplines, morning class is led by a variety of teachers and provides a space for growth, conditioning, and exploration. Take a class with Core Dance and learn from Atlanta's best.

Directions: Our back entrance is accessible from North McDonough Street, at the intersection of Trinity Avenue and the Decatur Square. Look for the entrance between Waffle House and DeWoskin Law Firm.

Parking: The Core Dance parking lot is a paid lot. Proceeds benefit Core Dance and help to keep class fees low. If the lot is full, please find on-street parking or take MARTA when attending class. (Free on-street parking is available on Electric Ave.) MARTA’s Decatur Station will plop you down right next to us in the Decatur Square. Visit itsmarta.com for details on Decatur Station and for train and bus schedules.

NOTICE: Advance registration is required. All attendees must follow the instructions of the class leader with regards to masking. Hand sanitizer is available in the studio and each studio is equipped with a high-powered air cleaner. wear a mask in the building at all times, check temperature upon arrival, and utilize hand sanitizer. The HVAC system has also been upgraded to clean and sanitize the air.