dance class

Economic Dance Releif

Under the artistic direction Yasha Michealson and MiMoDa resident choreographer Alexandria Yalj, there is now an advanced repertory dance class designed for professional dancers.

Part I - Foundation
Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breathe, and exploration of gravity.
Alexandria has succesfull incorperated ideas from her own training of Limon, Horton, Cunningham, Graham, and Simonson techniques and culminated them with her own fresh energetic flavor and musicality to create exciting warm up. These "dances" promote physicality, stamina and agility enhancing performance quality awareness and execution.

Part II- Research
Combining improvization and the dynamic choreography of Alexandria Yalj, this improvisational lab has been specifically developed for investigation and experimenting with time, space, effort, and shape. Offering an array of improvisational vigne ttes where participants are presented with playground of compositional images to play with and exercise their creative mind paired with body and soul.

Alexandria Yalj -self producing performance artist with an MFA in choreography from CalArts. If she is not chasing the sun regardless of direction, she's probably diligently coordinating Los Angeles's, Dance Camera West Film Festival. As artistic director of Collective Movement, Alexandria has had the extreme pleasure in forming a pick up dance company that embodies an organically radical approach to choreography. Her unique choreographic works haven been presented in her native New York City as well as New Hamp shire, Fresno City College, Pepperdine University, Berkshire Fringe Festival and here in Los Angeles. A current company member of Rosanna Gamson World Wide and Stephan Koplowitz's international site specific touring company TaskForce. Alexandria is constantly searching for new approaches to expression and communication capacity of the body.

This class is generously offered MiMoDa Studio Theatre, whose mission is to provide a platform to facilitate artists in using non-standard dance and movement styles in order to take dance beyond traditional applications and common trends. Here, classical ballet is offered as a discipline providing a strong foundation in technique rather than as a dance language to be used as an end result. This mission's aim is to raise Los Angeles' reputation within the dance world to that of a place for innovation and the creation of exciting new works.

Housed in the renovated site formerly known as The Dancers' Studio, this space brings a new creative spirit to t he arts of dance, acting, theatrical mime, and an original improvisational movement method called Mimoda.

This hub of artistic activity will offer a space for physical theatre artists to teach and learn, explore and create, perform and share.


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