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  • Monday, April 22nd, 10 am to 11:00 class instructor: Amelia Reiser

    YOGA FOR THE MOVING BODY
    A creative and mindful approach to increasing strength, flexibility, stability, and balance. This practice is structured for the rigor of professional dancers, and also is accessible to anyone who experiences movement as a part of their lives (hint: we all do!) Incorporating pranayama techniques (breath work) adds awareness, core stability, and lung capacity for increased stamina in performance. Using the nervous system as a guide, this class will have a balance of exertion and rest, layering creative imagining and clarity in the present moment.

    Instructor Bio:
    Atlanta-based movement artist Amelia Reiser, a native of Oklahoma, started training at a young age at The Classical Ballet Academy. Amelia went on to attend The University of Georgia (UGA) where she completed a BFA in Dance Performance in 2011. She spent time living in Ireland after graduation working with local artists through an internship with Athlone Arts and Heritage and collaborated on a dance film with visual artist Lesley Wingfiled titled Waters and the Wild (2011). Over her 25+ years of performing and creating, Amelia has had the opportunity to work with numerous dance-makers and artists including T Lang Dance, Nick Cave, Maryn Whitmore, Erik Thurmond, Christina Noel Reaves, Lesley Wingfield, Emily Christianson, Sara Santamaria, Greg Catellier, and George Staib. Her most recent work includes “Sheltered in Place” (2020) in collaboration with sculptor Sara Santamaria presented by Creatives Project and DriveThru ATL, and “pinion” (2021) a solo work in process shown at Excuse The Art presented by Fly on a Wall. Since 2013, Amelia has been a collaborative company member of Staibdance in Atlanta, GA. In addition to creating and performing, Amelia teaches yoga at Tough Love Yoga and Emory Healthcare, and is a trauma informed yoga and mindfulness teacher working with incarcerated youth through local nonprofit Centering Youth. An avid lover of dramatic skies, wild mountains, and trees, Amelia spends most spare moments in her garden, or escaping the city in search of adventure and wilderness.

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    Core Dance opens its doors to the public every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. 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 by way of North McDonough Street, at the intersection of Trinity Avenue and the Decatur Square. Look for the narrow driveway just past Waffle House. The Core Dance logo is painted on the wall in our parking lot and visible from North McDonough.

    Parking: The parking lot is a paid lot belonging to Refined Parking. Scanning the QR codes on the signs will take you to a payment page. Core Dance does subsidize some of the parking fee. Instructions are inside the studio on the wall leading up the stairs. Free on-street parking is available on Electric Ave and MARTA’s Decatur Station is right next to us in the Decatur Square. Visit itsmarta.com for details on Decatur Station and for train and bus schedules.

    NOTICE: In light of COVID-19, each instructor has been given an opportunity to define their own class size restrictions and mask use guidelines. Hand sanitizer is also available in several places around the building.

    Thank you for registering.
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In Support of Core Dance
For four decades, Core Dance has supported innovation, collaboration, artistic risk-taking and sustainable art-making in dance. An award-winning contemporary dance organization with global reach, Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original dance that ignites the creative spirit and actively encourages participation and conversation with the community. In 1980, Core Dance was co-founded in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell.  Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Georgia as a second home base, creating a platform for dance that is relevant in both cities and around the globe. Core Dance uses dance to educate, question and illuminate, and is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaborations, the humanity of the individual Dance Artists, and its rigorous physicality. (coredance.org)