Classes with Hilary Bryan

Additional Workshops:
The following workshops are also available. Please call/email for current schedule or to arrange a workshop for your group.

Rudolf Laban's SPACE HARMONY
We will build and play inside human-scale icosahedrons (see image) to explore the geometry of movement and spatial harmonics. Enliven your spatial matrix. Discover your kinesphere and increase its range. Learn to go off balance with clarity and freedom. Get out of your head and into the space. Ideal for choreographers and improvisers seeking to expand their vocabulary.

EMBODYING SPACE: Laban's Geometry of Movement
Space, it's where we live yet so hard to describe... Define and clarify your spatial matrix for core support, stability and balance. Practice accessing your deep core support to increase your strength, range, and freedom of movement. Explore the richness of your internal landscape while using the space around you for ease and grace. Based on dynamic body alignment, harmonic internal connections, and sacred geometry. Challenging, intuitively gentle guidance for all levels of movement proficiency from professional to beginning.

CORE SUPPORT FOR EVERYDAY MOVEMENT, Body Alignment Lab
This lab in grounding focuses on core support that you can apply to the movement you do every day. Learn to move with grace and discover your deep inner strength and power.

SPEAK WITH THE FEET, Body Alignment Lab
This lab in grounding focuses on lower body alignment for strength and power. Develop your rotation & lower body support through a gentle, integrated approach to movement. Based on harmonic internal connections, dynamic alignment, and Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals. Challenging, intuitively gentle guidance.

SPEAK WITH THE FEET, Contact Improvisation
Somatic Approach to Contact Improvisation. Articulate your legs and tail -- how do they move? how do they speak? Align them for strength and power. Use them for support and communicating with your partner. Ground your dancing so you can fly!

DANCE WITH POWER! Modern dance technique
Build core strength & expressive range through a vigorous, integrated approach to movement. Based on harmonic internal connections, dynamic alignment, and Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals. Challenging, intuitively gentle guidance.

NO MORE BRUISES!
Floorwork lab for intermediate and advanced dancers. Get in and out of the floor with power and grace (without killing your knees!). Learn to ride spatial tensions; spiral up and down with ease; speak with the feet.

SINGING WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY!
For dancers who sing, singers who dance, and those who wish they did. Sound and movement merge into one. The fully expressive body emerges -- whole, vibratin, a unified medium. Learn how sound and movement support and glorify one another. Add movement to your singing and sound to your dance.

ERGONOMICS LAB FOR PILATES TRAINERS
Replace stressful movement patterns with more efficient, easeful ones. Improve your own body mechanics while working on clients and ensure your own long career.

FLOW & PARTNER ACROBATICS
- Acrobats - Yogis - Dancers - Actors! Feeling STUCK in your movement?
Flow between your poses ~ Find your power through flow ~ Summon your inner strength ~ Expand your partnering skills
Flow is the baseline of movement and the through line of performance. Flow connects the whole body and provides the internal support we need to move freely. We will explore the concept of flow in water, wind and fire and apply our new experience of flow to partner acrobatics and personal movement style. [printable pdf flyer]

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