Learn, Train and Join in
MORNING CLASS with Lisa McLoughlin
Wed 04 Dec '19 to Wed 18 Dec '19As part of our new regular series, Lisa McLoughlin will host morning classes on Wednesdays 4, 11 & 18 December at 10- 11.30am.
About Lisa's Class
Lisa’s class will begin with vinyasa yoga and somatic exercises to get deeply warm on these dark winter mornings. Following this, participants will use both improvisation and structured sequences to engage all of the body into movement and finally into a dynamic movement phrase.
Lisa's Bio
Trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, London. Lisa has performed extensively across the globe with many companies as a freelance dancer. A founder member of Rex Levitates (now Liz Roche Company) she has worked with CoisCeim, Marguerite Donlon and Dancers, IMDT, Ciotóg among many others. She is an award-winning choreographer and a passionate advocate and teacher of dance. She is a tutor and researcher in dance at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, holds a first-class honours MA in Dance combining dance and psychology. Lisa has been awarded Irish Research Council funding for her Arts Practice PhD, which explores autonomy and dependency in society. This research involved contributions from over 500 people and has been co funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. She is a board member of Liz Roche Company and the Dublin Dance Festival.
Morning Class with Catherine Young
Wed 15 Jan '20 to Wed 29 Jan '20Catherine’s classes are highly physical and technical and incorporate much somatic, contemporary dance and yoga training to enable the dancer to experience the full body in motion. Catherine's contemporary classes are influenced by her yoga and African dance training and are highly physical in nature. Class begins with a strong floor based warm up that works to standing and her style focuses on floor work, breath, release, rhythm, balance and the full body in motion.
Morning Class with Matt Szczerek
Wed 19 Feb '20 to Wed 26 Feb '20The warm up will consist of awareness building exercises creating state of readiness for the body using geometry of movement and basic physical structures in Hip Hop dance.
Class is suitable for intermediate/advanced levels but is open to all interested in Hip Hop. Contemporary dancers are encouraged to attend, as the floorwork aspect of the class will be of particular interest as a complimentary practice.
In main body of the class we will be working on rhythm and understanding of music, isolations, groove, floorwork, social aspect of the culture, party dances and history of hip hop.
