AGES 18 +
No Audition Required - Pre-Registration is Mandatory

Please note:
Spots are filling up fast! To reserve your place please complete the registration form below and send in with your tuition. There are no refunds

Dates:

Sessions are now running from August 4-22

Session I: August 4 - 8 (tuition: $325)

Session II: August 11 - 15 (tuition: $325)

Session III: August 18 - 22 (tuition: $325)

Sign up for two sessions and recieve a $50 discount ($600 for 2 sessions), sign up for all three and recieve a $125 discount ($850 for all three sessions)

There will be a performance opportunity on the last day of Session III (August 22) at 2pm and 4pm

Daily Schedule: The Choreography Workshop will consist of an hour warm-up/technique class (please see below for a description), followed by a 1 1/2 hour repertoire class.

Hours are as follows:

Warm-up/Technique: 3:00-4:00

Repertory: 4:00-5:30


Location:
Baryshnikov Arts Center
37 Arts Building
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

Registration: Click here to download our registration form

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please visit our FAQ page by clicking here. If you still have questions, please contact Sarah Miller by email: smiller@complexionsdance.org

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The Choreography Workshop is designed for the college age/professional dancer with solid ballet and modern technique who is interested in learning the COMPLEXIONS technique in a workshop setting. Classes are instructed by both Artistic Directors as well as various company members.

Students will have the opportunity to learn Mr. Rhoden's choreography from the COMPLEXIONS repertory with members of the company. Students will be encouraged to move beyond the actual steps they learn into concepts of interpretation and story telling through movement. Workshop participants will be inspired to investigate the possibilities of movement and will be coached on projection, dynamics and clarity. They will experience the excitement of the creative process as well as the demands of the choreographer. The final session will allow the students to perform what they have learned.



At COMPLEXIONS you work with the Artistic Directors everyday, learning a technique that is unique and exclusive to COMPLEXIONS directly from the artists themselves.


There is a pre-warm up - 5-7 minutes before barre. This is designed to awaken the body, mind and spirit freeing the joints, get the blood flowing and focus the mind. Instruction is in a typical ballet class structure, accompanied by live music, piano, violin or cello. The barre excercises highlight an astute physicality and progress from plies to grand-battements. Each exercise is performed on center and the off center with an emphasis on coordination of the upper body with the lower body and prepares the dancer for off center movement. The class is designed to teach the dancer how to incorporate the fluidity of the head, arms and back and graduate from the classical shapes to inversion, tilt and askew of the hips and legs in a contemporary manner. The philosophy is that performing these exercises both center and off and including the freedom of the torso, hips, and legs, better translated from barre to floor.

Students then move through rhythmic tendu, center, floor, extended and eschewed adagios, sweeping waltzes and shapely pirouette exercises. Petite allegro and grande allegro culminate with a movement phrase based in the philosophy of the Rhoden technique, a "full body" approach to choreography.

Pointe shoes are optional but highly encouraged.


Since the inception of COMPLEXIONS in 1994, founding Co-Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson have set over 70 works for the Company and toured across the globe with great acclaim. Audiences everywhere ask, "How do you get dancers to move like that?" Their philosophy has always encouraged a strong technical foundation, physicality and versatility, coupled with an artists uniqueness, individuality, and passion.


COMPLEXIONS has carved out a unique style of movement which challenges the dancer's typical ideas and pushes the form forward. Rhoden and Richardson have worked with some of today's premiere artists and have set many works on various companies around the world. In doing this they have observed the need to increase a bridge between classical ballet and contemporary dance. Today's choreographers ask dancers to execute movement at extreme angles in unconventional lines with speed, precision and control. This helps dancers to understand the connection of the entire body.

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