Coffee Hour with Kledia
Monday, 5/11 | 11AM EST
Join The Dance Complex for conversations and workshops all about dance. On our Facebook Live @dancecomplex and Instagram Live @thedancecomplexat 11AM every Monday.
This Monday, our Communications Director Kledia Spiro will be interviewing one staff member of The Dance Complex team, Development Manager, Rachel Roccoberton.
DC Live: Modern Jazz with Andy Taylor
Tuesday, 5/12 | 3:30PM EST
Keep in touch with your technique while you’re at home with Andy Taylor tomorrow at 3:30PM on our Facebook Live and Instagram Live.
A class with continuous warm-up, focus on modern technique and phrases set to world music selections. Andy Taylor’s class merges modern and jazz styles. Her warm-up is anatomically aware and careful so all body types can work through the warm-up and the phrases. For her, the warm-up is the time to stretch and strengthen while isolating muscle groups and combining movements to warm up the whole body.
Fireside Chats with Peter: featuring Junious Brickhouse & Aysha Upchurch
Wednesday, 5/13 | 11AM EST
Joined by guests, The Dance Complex’s Executive Artistic Director Peter DiMuro, will be chatting all things dance in Boston and beyond. Join him on our Facebook Live @DanceComplex and Instagram Live @thedancecomplex, Wednesdays at 11AM.
This week he will be joined by Junious Brickhouse and Aysha Upchurch. Junious “House” Brickhouse is an internationally established educator, choreographer and cultural preservationist with over 30 years of experience in Urban Dance Culture. Born in Virginia Beach, VA, his dance training began at family gatherings dancing the funk styles of the era. Early on, he established himself as a leader and mentor in those communities, serving to educate and guide others. At age 18, Junious embarked on an over 21-year career as a Logistics Professional in the U.S. Army and later as a Department of Defense contractor. As the Founding Executive Director of Urban Artistry Inc. (www.urbanartistry.org), Junious has inspired and created a movement of artists dedicated to the preservation of urban dance culture, specifically within communities of practice.
Aysha Upchurch is an entrepreneur, artist, educator, and consultant who creates, facilitates, and designs for radical change. She is a seed planter and soil agitator who weaves her passion into her commitment to critical arts pedagogy, youth advocacy, social justice, and transformative education. Upchurch received her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), and as a visiting practitioner in education, she served as the inaugural artist-in-residence with the arts in education program, exploring the pedagogical implications of cross-disciplinary artistic collaboration, community dance cyphers, and hip hop pedagogy. In fall 2018 she joined the HGSE faculty as an adjunct lecturer on education, teaching new courses on hip hop education and embodied learning, as well as launching and directing HipHopEX (HHEX) – a collaborative lab for high school and graduate students to experience, explore, and experiment with hip hop arts in education.
DC Live: NIA
Thursday, 5/14 | 3:30PM EST
Nia brings the sheer Joy of dance to a mind-body-spirit practice that blends modern, jazz, and Duncan, martial arts and somatic movement with hot music, simple choreography, plus authentic movement. Nia will get you in tune with your body, in sync with your spirit, and aligned with pleasure! No previous dance experience required.
DC Live: Gentle Morning Jive
Friday, 5/15 | 9:30AM EST
Join dancer, Kara Fili, as you wake up your body, mind and soul with stretching, strengthening and dancing — all from your chair! Music from the 1930’s – present day will keep us energized throughout our workout which draws from disciplines such as yoga, pilates, tap, jazz, West African, modern and ballet dance. No dance experience necessary. Movements will be demonstrated from a seated position but can be modified to be done while standing. Classes are 30 minutes.
Bio: Kara has connected with people ages 3- 100+ through dance in such places as The Dance Complex, Cambridge Senior Center, The Boston Ballet, Nevins Family of Services and Colleges of the Fenway for over 10 years. Inspired by humor, rhythm and the spectrum of people on this planet, she enjoys performing and choreographing, and she is also a member of Benkadi Drum & Dance and Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion.
DC Live: Tap with Christina Harrington
Saturday, 5/16 | 12PM EST
No time like the present to start tapping or come back to it if you’ve strayed away with Christina Harrington’s Beginner Tap class tomorrow! No tap shoes necessary, some sneakers will do.
Starting fresh with the very basics, you will develop a repertoire of steps and learn to put them together in basic choreography. For those with little or no tap experience, or those who would like a refresher on the basics. Appropriate for adults of most fitness levels. Level 1 focuses mainly on learning the basics of tap: shuffle, flap, buffalo, essence, Manhattan, drawbacks, maxi ford and all of the various combos involving these steps like flap ball change, shuffle hop step, flap toe hop, flap heel, with a strong emphasis on technique and repetition in order to encourage muscle memory and confidence to create sounds clearly each time.
