Contemporary/Modern
with
Talli Jackson
February 16 2017, 10am-12pm
SUGGESTED DONATION $8 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Class description 
We’ll start on the floor, using a combination of improvisation and set material to generate warmth and teach our bodies to partner the ground with ease and fluidity. Once standing, we’ll focus on blending flowing and counter-intuitive articulations of the limbs and spine, along the way building a dynamic relationship to balance and challenging our qualitative range. We'll end with a phrase for the dancer in you that is hungry for the sensuousness of spirals, knows how to “work it,” and likes to eat space… alive.

Experience required for the participants 
This class is geared toward intermediate-advanced to advanced level dancers. 

Class goals
To feed ourselves with attention, sweat, loving kindness, and delicious movement.

Teaching Goals
I’m interested in teaching dance because I think creative, physical play nurtures healthy, dynamic humans. To this end, I attempt to offer a movement practice of rigor, novelty, and exploration. I measure success in the sparkling of bodies, minds, and hearts at the end of class.

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About Talli

​As a freelance artist, Talli has had the pleasure of working with The Vanaver Caravan, Francesca Harper, Paul Matteson, Erick Montes, and Joseph Poulson.  In 2013, he was honored with a Princess Grace Award in Dance. Talli has been touring nationally and internationally as a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company since 2009. 
Talli has a passion for teaching and has been delighted to share classes in contemporary technique, partnering, and composition with students at colleges and universities around the country. He has been a designer and co-lead of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Summer Workshop since 2013

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about this series

This series is geared towards the professional development of dance teachers, and as a mean to offer affordable training for the dance community.

​This series is a part of the CREATING SPACE Program. Funded in large part by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the CREATING SPACE Program provides opportunities to support and develop artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aesthetic traditions.