Ongoing Contemporary dance class & Yoga schedule:
2024:
Next upcoming class is at Yoga Under the Palms in Honolulu, HI
October 5th, 2024
Feel Good Floorwork:
A deep warm up into a sensory class flows through strengthening and flexibility exercises that focus on building a strong core and foundational floorwork & contemporary dance technique. From combos, improvisation and choreography, students will build their movement toolkits and experiment with a broad kinesthetic scope of body awareness. This ambiguously named style of dance draws from jazz, urban forms and contact improv...Bring long pants and kneepads.
2020- 2022:
Mondays:
10:15am - Vinyasa Power Yoga and Embodied Strength @ Infinity Movement Studio
6:00pm - Contemporary Fusion Dance @ Infinity Movement Studio
Tuesdays:
8:00pm - Contemporary Dance (Beg/Int Level) @ Sakura Arts Collective
Thursdays:
7:00pm - Contemporary Dance (Int/Adv Level) @ Sakura Arts Collective
Ocean to Human.
Tidal natures. Continued research into how the ocean informs movement across coastal peoples and salty places.
Contemporary African history and aesthetics.
There is no simple answer whether African Contemporary is definitively a hybrid or fusion form because of many moving variables over time. To expand on that, the dances of Africa have traveled from Congo to Cuba, Angola to Portugal, Ivory Coast to Paris, Bight of Benin to New Orleans, Nigeria to New York, Guinea to Mexico City, Senegal to Tokyo, and far beyond. Hundreds of years of slave trade weaved a complex exchange of song, movement, rhythm into the Americas, and today a heavy and cosmic ancestral connection continues to evolve in a globalized, differently liberated, and technologically advanced world. What is seen on stage is a result of what is trained in class and can be described through anatomical and auric feelings, forces, and academic languaging of the physical aesthetics of African contemporary dance.
In Studio to On Stage : With professors like Lino Hamilton, Dude Consecao, Tatiana Campelo, Tania Santiago and Safira Sacramento in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, my lens is distilled through a dominantly Afro-Brazlilan contemporary viewpoint. I translated years of training in Afro-Brazilian and explored the orixa, Exú in a work called Trick or Treat with six dancers from the community of West African dance in Honolulu and also volunteer bodies from the Dance and Theatre department at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Reviews mentioned, “Trick or Treat” is an abstract drama marked by urban sensuality and a reverence to mythology.”