Chicago—Weekly: Spiral Body Techniques® Essential Level with Kristina Fluty
ONGOING: NEW TIME/S with Kristina Fluty
Spiral Body Techniques® w/ Kristina Fluty: Essential Level
Intermediate/Advanced Essential Level SBT—Thursdays 10-11:30am CST
Newcomers/Beginning Essential Level SBT—Fridays 1:30-3pm CST
$20 | Visceral | 3121 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60618
Drop ins welcome or register through Visceral.
This Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) class with Kristina Fluty emphasizes easeful movement connectivity and luscious whole-self dancing. Through floor and locomotive phrases, we will explore ball-and-socket joint access and expression, and engage with complex spirals that enhance both internal and spatial awareness. The class is advanced level. However, all levels are welcome and all participants should move at their own pace.
Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the framework for dance and teaching movement developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan.
Kristina has been dancing with Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak since 2003, serves on the board of directors, and provides administrative support to the company. Kristina is among the inaugural cohort of Spiral Body Techniques® instructors certified in 2023. She assists Shanahan in teaching the now-annual SBT® teacher training, and in the development of and communication about the method.
Kristina is an Associate Professor of Movement for Actors at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and holds an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling from Columbia College Chicago, where she also received her certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis and Movement Pattern Analysis. Her early influential training came from her BA in Dance from Point Park University, time spent on scholarship at Trisha Brown Dance Company, and the early 'aughts "downtown NYC dance scene" with Miguel Gutierrez, David Dorfman, KJ Holmes, and others. Continued personal study of Contact Improvisation and Feldenkrais also deeply inform her work.
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Spiral Body Techniques® is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. For more information about the company and technique visit our Spiral Body Techniques® page.
Kristina is among the first cohort of teachers certified as an Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® teacher in 2023, and is a pedagogical collaborator with Shanahan.