POP IN/POP OUT: with Joyce: ChoreoLAB – Merging Influences

POP IN / POP OUT with Joyce: ChoreoLAB – Merging Influences will take place Sunday, July 13, 2025 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM at the Kettner Depot.

ChoreoLAB: Merging Influences will specifically dive into how we can take cultural influences, different from our practiced dance forms, and bring that into our dance making. Through a cultural lens, we’ll explore movement generation, using various tools and prompts. We’ll deconstruct the movements of cultural dances, using our findings to manipulate our own movements to create short phrases. We’ll then workshop each other’s phrases through facilitated mini “wreckings” and share our outcomes and learnings.

POP IN / POP OUT: Countertechnique® with Ariel Scott

POP IN / POP OUT: Countertechnique® with Ariel Scott will take place Sunday, July 20, 2025 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM at the Kettner Depot.

Countertechnique® provides tools for body and mind to deal with the demanding dance practice of the 21st century. It is a movement system to help the dancer think about the dancing body, focusing on the process of incorporating information into action.

The Countertechnique® class is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates and strengthens the body, making the dancer sweat, build stamina and really move.

The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique® principles in detail. The second half of the class consists of changing components, working towards luscious movement combinations and jumping at the end.

The Countertechnique® class results in dancers using less energy, losing their fear of taking risks and gaining speed in changing direction.