Spring 2020: Dance Today

Featuring the creation of new works by Vicky Shick and Ni’Ja Whitson

Rehearsals: January 18-April 22; Wednesdays 5:30-8:30pm, Saturdays 12:30-3:30pm, Sundays (3/29, 4/5, 4/19) 1-3pm (Broadway Rehearsal Lofts, 294 Elm Street, room 303)

Final Group Rehearsal: Wednesday, April 22, 5:30-8:30pm (Crescent Theater, Morse/Stiles)

Tech Rehearsal: Thursday, April 23, 5:30-10:30pm (Crescent Theater, Morse/Stiles)

Performances: Friday, April 24 at 6pm & 8pm at The Crescent Theater, Morse/Stiles

Weekly Dance Classes:

Broadway Rehearsal Lofts, 294 Elm Street, room 303)

MoPed Improv Dance Class

Tuesdays 8-9pm Broadway Rehearsal Lofts, 294 Elm Street, room 303

MoPeD is 45 minutes of moving and grooving in a judgement free-space, with no prior dance experience necessary. Jam to good music and get some cardio - and make sure to wear clothes you can move in. Classes are led weekly by Gavrielle Welbel.

 

Funk Movement Medicine: Tropical Currents 

Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm

 

This movement/dance class is open to all. We will move through the movements and musics that flow from and between the Tropical and the Funky. Above all, we will find ways to be in our body and move whatever energy we need to move. We will jam, laugh, groove, cocinar y calentar.

 

Open Ballet Class

Saturdays, 10:30-12pm through April 25 (no March 7, 14, 21)

Former New York City Ballet dancer and current MFA/MBA candidate Gwyneth Muller leads an intermediate/advanced ballet class on Saturday mornings for the duration of the spring semester. This class is cosponsored by the Dance Studies Curriculum, Theater and Performance Studies, the Yale Dance Lab with support from the Robert Wallace Fund for Dance, and the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company.