Class Descriptions
SQUARE ONE
Instructors: Vanessa White, Belle Gunz
Full body awareness and discovery, dancing with intention, spatial awareness, finding the music, trusting your co-dancers, mindful improvisation.
Choreography: Vanessa White
POSTURE AND POISE
Instructors: Belle Gunz, Jane Doe
Basic ballet conditioning and technique, specific focus on upper body, port de bras, head. Queering ballet.
Choreography: Vanessa White
STRENGTH vs FLEXIBILITY
Instructors: Ruby Falls, Honey Pie
Basic ballet and jazz conditioning and technique, specific focus on lower body and how ballet then translates to floorwork. Where Ballet technique meets stripper technique. Sluttifying ballet and jazz.
Choreography: Honey Pie
SKILLS LAB 1
Hosts: Belle Gunz, Honey Pie
Get extra help or feedback on previous weeks’ technique and choreography, get feedback on how to apply previous lessons to your own work.
HANDS AND FEET
Instructors: Vanessa White, Cassandre Charles
Foot conditioning and exploration. Proper techniques for engaging the feet and ankles while walking and dancing in high heels, pointe shoes, skates. Hand conditioning both for upper body choreography and for supporting your weight in floor choreography.
Choreography: Vanessa White
FACE THE MUSIC
Instructors: Ruby Falls, Jane Doe
Basic musicality. Character development. Performance quality from the neck up including hair and face. Neck and spine care and conditioning for hairography.
Choreography: Jane Doe
ON YOUR TOES: HEELS EDITION
Instructors: Legs Hershey, Honey Pie
Understanding your lines in different heels, pros and cons of different styles of heels. Strutting practice for confidence, how to use heels on the floor.
Choreography: Vanessa White
SKILLS LAB 2
Hosts: Cassandre Charles, Belle Gunz
Get extra help or feedback on previous weeks’ technique and choreography, get feedback on how to apply previous lessons to your own work.
THE SPLITS
Instructors: Abby Normal, Honey Pie
Anatomy, technique and conditioning for all the splits, how to make progress, how to maintain both strength and flexibility. How to use splits in your choreography.
Choreography: Vanessa White
PROPS
Hosts: Vanessa White, Tori Visage
Performing with handheld props. Learn the line between when a prop enhances a performance or detracts from it. Creative ways to use different props, including your own clothing. Tools provided.
Choreography : Tori Visage
ON YOUR TOES: POINTE EDITION
Instructors: Belle Gunz, Ruby Falls
Ballet and pointe conditioning and technique, specific focus on lower body, proper foot alignment, support. How your shoes should fit. Proper weight transitions. Queering pointe.
Choreography: Vanessa White
SKILLS LAB 3
Hosts: Tori Visage, Vanessa White
Get extra help or feedback on previous weeks’ technique and choreography, get feedback on how to apply previous lessons to your own work.
Choreography: Vanessa White
THE SPINS
Instructors: Vanessa White, Legs Hershey
Turn, turn turn. Different types of pirouettes and spins; approaches, preparations and landings; how to use your head and arms, and how to use turns in a choreography flow.
Choreography: Vanessa White
BOOTY EVERYWHERE
Instructors: Legs Hershey, Cassandre Charles
Glute strength, conditioning, articulation and isolations. Whining, twerking, booty popping and clapping. Tools for unlearning western classical postures for greater range of motion and style.
Choreography: Vanessa White
POPS, LOCKS, BUMPS, & GRINDS
Instructors: Tori Visage, Abby Normal
Core strength and spine mobility for isolations. Articulation of the hips and chest. Adding accents to your choreography.
Choreography: Vanessa White
MOCK AUDITION
How to show up for an audition from first contact to booking the job. Showing respect for your peers and the process. Slutcracker Audition simulation.