Past event: Dec 27/28/29, 2022 Spiral Body Techniques™ holiday sanity three-class series (Chicago)

Mark the liminal days approaching the New Year with a three-class Spiral Body Techniques™ series with Molly Shanahan.

When: December 27-28-29, 2022.

Where: Dovetail Studios. Chicago.

Schedule: Dec 27-28-29, 2022; 12:30-2:30p daily for three days.

Cost and Registration Links:

Three class series: $75. Single classes: $27.

Payment plans/arrangements always available. Reach out if needed.

I always want to move, even just a little, during holidays…so here we go. A mid-day class to counter holiday stress or break up a day of luscious, indulgent lounging with luscious, indulgent movement. This is a series of three 2-hour intermediate/advanced level dance technique experiences focusing on nurturing movement flow, ease, and exactitude without excessive force. Classes typically begin on the floor, and/or in brief guided improvisation, and then move into sequence-building, phrase-making and repetition to encourage the intersection of “beginner’s mind” with evolving expertise.

Spiral Body Techniques™ is bolstered by Shanahan's research across three decades of evolving and ongoing improvisational and compositional practices morphed into techniques for dancing across a lifetime. Shanahan's influences include: healing early-career debilitating back pain; advanced study of Feldenkrais and the Continuum Method and other somatic methods; joyous, vigorous, and perpetually geeked-out research with the Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak ensemble and many students worldwide; and a PhD in Dance that collided practice with theory, flesh with text, and intimate personal story with scholarly structure.

*Note: if you have taken any intermediate- or advanced-level contemporary technique class, this is a good choice.

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