Core Class - Friday, October 9th, 10 am to 11:30 am

Friday, October 9th, 10 am to 11:30 am
Class Instructor: Amelia Reiser
Class Name: The Mindful Body
Location: Upstairs Marley Studio

Class Description: The Mindful Body is an opportunity to cultivate mindfulness through an exploration of contemporary dance forms, improvisation, breath work and other somatic practices. Mindfulness is so much more than attention alone, these practices invite us to discover a sense of connection with those around us, love, compassion, openness, creativity and playfulness. Everything is fleeting.

Instructor Bio: Amelia Reiser is a movement artist, performer, and facilitator from the Osage Plains of central Oklahoma, currently based in New York, NY. She is guided by the (not-so) radical remembering that dance is born from ritual, and believes that art, inherently, is a form of dissent. They are drawn to the poetic possibilities of movement, and make dances that often explore everyday human interactions to question our making of the world through language and body memory. Thematic content in her work often includes repetition and rigor, spiraling, bird flight patterns, stillness that settles beneath a windstorm, intimate gestures, heartbreak, queerness, lineage, spiritual inquiry, and connection to the natural world. Their movement practice is affected by rigorous banalities, and human desires for beauty, poetics, validation, and connection. Amelia’s dance making is currently multimodal through veils of translucent and quilted material, film projection as a dance partner, and referencing text collected from her late mother’s poetry. 

Amelia performed as a company dance artist with George Staib/staibdance (Atlanta, GA 2013–2024) and T Lang Dance (Atlanta, GA 2013–2015), and as a freelance artist with various independent makers.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.