Pre Professional Workshop 1/24, 2pm-5pm

What are we exploring?

This pre-professional workshop supports rising artists interested in expanding their contemporary movement vocabulary with celebrated, professional dance company VIM VIGOR. We value a range of experience, and can provide modifications as needed. We ask that all participants have some prior dance experience. This workshop also serves as an audition for VIM VIGOR 2, our pre-professional second company that runs on Saturdays, 2-5pm, January 17 - February 28. This Pre-Professional Company will train and create new works on selected dancers. January 10 / Pre-Professional Workshop Activating both athlete and artist, we will begin by generating heat throughout the body via tactile engagement of the skin, lush body-weight conditioning, and grounding exercises that draw forth the body's natural liquid state. We will continue with Floorwork sequences that explore the body's natural stealth and sequential spine-focused exercises that stabilize the body through contrasting directional forces, curvilinear motion and breath. This training is simultaneously coupled with improvisational and awareness propositions that aim to awaken the senses and their direct relationship with the moving body. Emphasizing strength and stamina while supporting healthy alignment, the class builds into long and complex phrase work drawn from VIM VIGOR's latest research, affording dancers the opportunity to dig deep into the resources of the body while traversing surprising and challenging landscapes of size, direction, tone and texture. Sweat, surprise and full- bodied ardor await. Join us with dance comfortable apparel, water bottles, and snacks.