Name: All Levels Contemporary Dance Class
Start: 2024-06-20T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-06-20T11:30:00-06:00
Location: Mi Chantli

Thursdays from 10:00-11:30am at Mi Chantli Movement and Art Sanctuary in Boulder, CO. $18 to drop in or 5 classes for $70. Sign up on the MindBody App with Mi Chantli.
Classes in June will be led by Jesús Muñoz. Jesús Muñoz is a Latin dance artist and percussionist within the complexities of Indigenous, Mexican and Cuban culture, music, and dance, and within Eurocentric dance in ballet, modern, and contemporary techniques. Muñoz is currently based in Boulder, Colorado, a recent MFA in Dance graduate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Theatre & Dance. Muñoz holds a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma, a conservatory dance program that concentrated in ballet, modern, and jazz dance. Alongside extensive communitarian and performance work, Muñoz holds twenty years of involvement in the Latin dance community internationally as a freelance dance artist, educator, performer, and choreographer. As an extranjero from México with indigenous descent of the Arapaho tribe from the Coloradoan territory, Muñoz’s aims at fostering Latin & Indigenous artistic excellence through building new accessibility spaces for his communities.
The structure of the class is designed to connect the participant with the exploration and hybridization of Contemporary, Latin, and Afro-Caribbean dance formats. Dance will be approached in cultural/vernacular, conservatory, popular, abstract, and pedestrian forms to create availability in both yielding and explosiveness, to sense both delicacy and aggressiveness throughout the entire body while connecting to ancestorial forces. We will invite & research new movement while connecting to music and culture of the Cuban identity. The class will include articulation exercises, strengthening, stretching, center placement exercises, across the floor, movement phrases, sophisticated use of polyrhythm, weight, pelvic and spinal articulation to access a full body experience. This course will present concepts and skills from Afro-Cuban (Yoruba, Bantu, Abakua, Arara), Cuban Folkloric (Rumba), Cuban Popular, Neoclassical Ballet, and Modern Dance (Graham, Humphrey/Limon, Cunningham).