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This is a free workshop for High School Students!! Do you plan on joining us? (We hope so!) Send us an email so we can be prepared. Thanks you![email protected]
-Class Description: This class will explore House dance foundations. House is a style of dance that originated in the underground Black and gay clubs of Chicago and New York in the late 70s/ early 1980s. Its influences include Disco, Latin social dance, Hustle, African, jazz, tap, hip hop, breaking, Brazilian Capoeira and more. Students will learn foundational House rhythms and then build a sequence by combining these different rhythms. Students will dance with one another, exercising their social dancing skills. Expect intricate footwork matched with flow and ease, floorwork, sweat, and celebration.
Bio: Millie Heckler is a dancer, choreographer, and movement guide whose work explores the body as a site of memory, emotion, and transformation. As the Founder and Creative Director of pusherBody dance company, and with a background in contemporary dance and Street Dance Theater, her work is rooted in empowerment, sensuality, and personal truth through movement. She danced professionally with Street Dance Theater pioneer Rennie Harris and afro-contemporary company, Charles O. Anderson/dance theater x. With an MFA degree in Dance and Social Justice, she has worked at University of Vermont and University of Texas, as well as other schools nationally and abroad. Her work has been supported by National Endowment for the Arts, New York Live Arts, Cultural Arts Funding Program in Texas, Vermont Arts Council, and Vermont Dance Alliance, among others.
We would like to thank the Vermont Community Foundation for their generosity in helping this event come to fruition.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
West Rutland Town Hall, West Rutland,VT,United States
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