Train and Create: Bates Dance Festival at The Dance Complex

Train and Create features three teachers offering a taste of BDF’s Professional Training Program and the experience of both rigorous dance training and making. Morning classes are taught by Jenny Oliver and Jenna Riegel and in the afternoon, David Dorfman will lead a creative process session.

Participants in this one-day intensive will also receive a ticket to the premiere of Riegel’s striking new solo, Varvara, that evening. Learn more about Varvara here.

Full day - $150, including ticket to Varvara evening performance

Drop in - $25, limited availability for morning classes only

Please see the agenda section above for class descriptions and CLICK HERE for information about the artists. This intensive is geared towards dancers 18+.

Info: Modern Connections is a Horton based modern dance technique class taught at a pace designed for the students in the room. Class begins with sequential and consistent warm-up, continues with center phrases that are designed to promote competence and growth of proper technique. Students build the necessary vocabulary and body awareness required for Flat Back, Lateral T, and Fortifications through proper corrections focused on alignment and detailed explanations of the initiation of movements.

Info: From Jenna: "My class draws on and references a rich movement lineage spanning many forms including classical modern, postmodern, jazz, hip hop, ballet, improvisational practices, and everyday, pedestrian movement. Class begins with Bartenieff inspired floor work, yoga, and Pilates to ease us into motion and help us arrive more fully present in our bodies. Introductions to one another are made through a name circle or interactive warm-up exercises to cultivate trust and build community together. Across the floor phrase-work oscillates between imagery and task-based improvisational scores and rigorous locomotion, athletic inversions, and ambitious lofting. A culminating phrase challenges the polarities of movement and investigates both off-balance and centered, bound and released, sustained and staccato, momentum driven and spatially controlled, on the floor and in the air, and sensation-based and shape-based movement.

Info: This workshop will explore strategies and tactics to get "un-stuck" in a choreographic process. We've all been there - how do we get out, move through, dig in, go deep?

Whether you’ve been at it for decades or ten minutes, we’ll find ways to go forward, honoring your past work and your unknown future – and - we will have fun!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

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