Classes with The Click

Collaborative play is at the heart of all that we create and present: our Classes with the Click series is rooted in our philosophy of recognizing the power of individual voice in conjunction with the power of collective presence. Each class will have a contemporary-focus, with a twist of individuality that speaks to the Click instructors’ interests and specialties within the field.

This series will be held weekly at The Dance Complex and is intended for intermediate to advanced dancers. If you are looking for an all-levels or slower-paced contemporary class, please check out our Community Contemporary class on Thursday evenings at The Foundry.

CLASS POLICIES

1. Registration prior to arrival is required.
2. Please note that we have a grace period of 15 minutes at the start of class for late arrivals. Students arriving more than 15 minutes late will not be permitted into class. Please plan your travel accordingly. We do not offer refunds or transfers for this class.
3. Please note that we do not have the capacity to answer questions about registration via Instagram DMs or Facebook Messenger. We also do not check messages sent through Eventbrite. Any questions or concerns about class registration should be sent to Kristin Wagner at [email protected].

Schedule:

January 30: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

February 6: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

February 13: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

February 20: INDULGE with Rachel Linsky

February 27: INDULGE with Rachel Linsky

March 5: TBD

No class March 12 or March 19

March 26: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

April 2: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

April 9: GROUNDED with Kristin Wagner

April 16: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

April 23: GROUNDED with Kristin Wagner

No class April 30

May 7: GROUNDED with Kristin Wagner

May 14: TBD

May 21: GROUNDED with Kristin Wagner

May 28: BIG AND SMALL MOVES with Audrey MacLean

About the Classes:

INDULGE with RACHEL LINSKY

Rachel’s contemporary class fuses Limón technique with Contemporary release technique. Class will begin with a series of strengthening exercises to center mind and body and to set up safe alignment. From there, dancers will push their ability to fall off of and return to center, while exploring a balance of weight and weightlessness in the upper body, groundedness and release into the floor, and their ability to smoothly transition from one place to the next. After a center warm-up, dancers will move expansively across the floor progressing into indulgent, expressive, and athletic phrase work.

BIG AND SMALL MOVES with AUDREY MACLEAN

Class will explore how the subtlety of movement can still be expansive and carry momentum. As that momentum builds we will continue to pay attention to how the underlying details influence our movement. Through improvisation and phrase work we will find our way in and out of the floor as we explore big (and small) moves.

GROUNDED with KRISTIN WAGNER

Designed with the intermediate to advanced contemporary dancer in mind, the foundation of this class is rooted in Elizabeth Gilbert's philosophy regarding the paradox of art: everything matters, and nothing matters. We use the tension of this philosophy to break through self-censorship and harmful criticism to an empowered dance experience that values refining an authentic voice above perfecting virtuosity. The class begins with a grounded warm up focused on lengthening and loosening the spine, unlocking the head and the tail, and building heat in the center. Floor work patterns are offered alongside some humor and a persistent request to make the movement what it is in your body. A culminating phrase weaves together spinal fluidity with detailed and nuanced gestural movement for a simple but sweet expression of humanity. Please consider your comfort with coming in and out of the ground, taking weight in your hands, and inverting when deciding if this class is right for you.

About the Instructors:

RACHEL LINSKY is a Boston-based contemporary dance artist. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography and a B.A in Arts Administration from Elon University where she graduated summa cum laude. Rachel directs and choreographs ZACHOR, an ongoing project series that seeks to preserve the words of WWII Holocaust survivors through dance. Rachel’s choreography has been presented in national and international dance festivals such as Earl Mosely’s Diversity of Dance “Dance is Activism Film Festival”, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Prague International Film Festival, and many more. Her work has been awarded funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts, The City of Boston, The Russell J. Efros Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and The Beker Foundation. Rachel has been an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts through their new Dance Maker’s Laboratory Program, and at Chelsea Theatre Works. Rachel was recently commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Jewish Arts Collaborative to choreograph a new work for their 2021 Hanukkah celebration. Rachel is currently a dancer with KAIROS Dance Theater and The Click Boston. She is on the teaching faculty at Koltun Ballet Boston, Broadway Bound Dance Center, and Urbanity Dance.

AUDREY MACLEAN is a Boston-based dance/performance artist. Since graduating from Connecticut College, Audrey has had the pleasure of performing throughout New York and New England in work by Jimena Bermejo, Peter DiMuro, griffindance, Heidi Henderson, Grant Jacoby, Annie Kloppenberg, Betsy Miller, Ruckus Dance, and shovegentlydance. Audrey's own work has been presented through Green Street Studio's New Works program, The Dance Complex's aMaSSiT program, as part of DanceNOW Boston at ART's Oberon, and was featured on CPTV's Spotlight on the Arts. In the spring of 2016 she co-produced and curated an evening of short dance/performance work titled "Dance Shorts" which brought together eight Boston-area choreographers. Aside from her own choreographic pursuits, Audrey has served in administrative roles for The Dance Complex, Green Street Studios, and Moving Target Boston. Audrey has also been a guest teacher in both technique and composition classes at: The College of the Holy Cross, Berklee College of Music, Moving Target Portland, Moving Target Boston, Rising Tide Charter School, and Wilmington Dance Academy.

KRISTIN WAGNER is a movement enthusiast living, learning and growing in the Greater Boston area. Since 2012, Kristin has been performing with a number of local contemporary dance theater companies and freelance choreographers, most notably: KAIROS Dance Theater, for whom she serves as Rehearsal Director and Principal Dancer, and Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion. As “Decent Dance”, Kristin - with partner Tony Guglietti - creates accessible contemporary performance works that dabble in comedy, dramedy, and all things silly, sweet and true. Kristin also creates work independently and as part of “The Click”. With a passion for supportive, rigorous, and eclectic dance education, Kristin has shared these philosophies and more with students ranging from youth to adult in competitive, pre-professional, and collegiate environments across Massachusetts. Kristin is a certified artist in the City of Boston, a RYT-200 yoga teacher, and holds a B.A. in Hospitality Administration with a minor in dance from Boston University (2012, summa cum laude). In all that she does, Kristin is guided by the belief that authentic, uncensored movement can be a pathway for personal growth, authenticity, and healing. She is fiercely femme-focused and painfully Type A, plays mom to cat Lilah and puppy Lola, and inappropriately (but lovingly) inserts herself as co-parent to her niece and nephew, Jamie and Owen. Learn more at www.bodiesmoving.com, or visit Kristin on Instagram at @bodies_moving and @decentdance.

About The Click:

Developed in 2021, The Click is a collaborative dance company and creative collective in Greater Boston. Its members are dancers whose primary medium of physical expression is through contemporary dance forms, but who experiment in many modes and genres of creativity. As a collective, The Click’s members are each deeply invested in answering the universally complex question: who am I and what am I doing here?

The Click contributes to the consistent presence of creativity in Boston and beyond in several ways: by educating pre-professional youth dancers, professional adult dancers and the dance-curious of any age; performing original creations several times a year at traditional and non-traditional venues across Massachusetts, New England and beyond; and by investing in the curiosity of those new to dance in Boston or new to dance in general by maintaining an open, inclusive and accessible community.

Follow us on Instagram: @the.click.boston

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States