Christal Brown and INSPIRIT lead a technique laboratory focused on moving, intention, and analysis. By combining the focus and intention of a meditative practice with a series of exercises designed to train the body in articulate expression as well as athletic execution, Brown’s class emphasizes developing the total artist.  Exercises will concentrate on alignment, torso and spinal flexibility, clarity of focus, upper body strength, lower body strength, and abdominal control.  Working to transform philosophical notions of being into movement explorations, students will discover intersections between technique and performance : yielding transference.

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About Christal Brown:

CHRISTAL BROWN (Mother | Artist | Educator | Disciple | Coach | Author) is the Founder of INSPIRIT, Project: BECOMING, the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance, a Full Professor of Dance and Twilight Artist in Residence at Middlebury College and the Chief Visioning Officer of Steps and Stages. Brown is a native of Kinston, North Carolina, where she remembers accompanying her mother to NAACP meetings and performing at Black Caucus rallies.  This early exposure to social responsibility innately produced a strong desire in Brown to put her gifts to work for the greater good.  Brown earned her BFA in Dance and minor in Business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA in New Media Art and technology from Long Island University. Brown’s evolution combines her creativity, educational gifts and love for people into a dynamic coaching, facilitation, and consulting practice designed to create vision and sustain change. For more info visit www.stepsandstagescoaching.com.

About INSPIRIT:

By harnessing the transcendent power of dance, INSPIRIT, a dance company, strives to create and sustain social change. By investing in our artists and providing them with the necessary tools to succeed in the arts as well as the world, we reap dividends for generations to come. In the classroom, in community, in rehearsal and in performance INSPIRIT lives up to our name by infusing new life, encouraging growth and invigorating all with whom we come in contact.

Upcoming Performances at The DC:

Join us for What We Ask of Flesh in our very own Julie Ince Thompson Theatre on April 25 and 26 at 8:00pm. Learn more about the performances below as well as purchase tickets:

What We Ask of Flesh (WWAOF) is a seven year labor of true communion and collaboration. Conceptual Architect Christal Brown, has brought together a brilliant cast of movement artists, composers, writers, and technologists to create an immersive evening-length dance and installation. The cast not only explores flesh as the veil between the world and the soul but they also connect INSPIRIT’s 20 year history through legacy and lineage. In this work, the artists’ bodies become instruments that question, connect, and dismantle the tangible and intangible histories present within a human life. Inspired by the writings of poet Remica Bingham-Risher, the caregiver’s journey through Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, the navigation of grief and the redemption of joy; Brown and her company explore the tapestry between our internal and external realities. Set to live music, five movement artists assisted by media projection, lights, and garments of art take the audience on a journey of truth and triumph.

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