dance class

2 Part Dance Class designed for Professional Dancers

Part I – Foundation) Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breath, and exploration of gravity. Alexandria has successfully Incorporated 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 an…d agility enhancing performance quality awareness and execution.

(Part II- Research) Combining improvisation 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 vignettes 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 the next Collective Movement. 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 Hampshire, Fresno City College, Pepperdine University, Berkshire Fringe Festival and here in Los Angeles. A current company member of Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Alexandria is constantly searching for new approaches to expression and communication capacity of the body.

Classes are $12
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Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue
Venice, CA 90291

From the Santa Monica 10 Freeway, traveling west, exit Lincoln Blvd.
Go left (travel south) about 3 miles to Venice Blvd.
Turn right on Venice Blvd. Then right on Abbot Kinney.
Then right on California Avenue.
Immediate right on Electric Avenue.
The Electric Lodge is the second building on your left.
Turn left into our free parking lot.
Welcome to the Lodge.

Alternative Transportation – Blue Bus #2

Metro # 33, 333, R3
For maps and more information please visit http://electriclodge.org/arts/lodge/map_directions.cfm