Stomping Ground L.A.
a community arts center for people to gather and create
We believe everyone is creative and should have the opportunity to express themselves in the arts. SGLA provides a safe space for the development, creation, and sharing of artistic work by both professionals and the communities we serve.
Upcoming Classes
Price: $10
Room: Garage
Class Description:
Join Psychopomp in our Open Company Class! Class. Class will include Modern and Contemporary styles with strengthening drills and floorwork peppered in. This class is to prepare the company dancers for rehearsal so each class will be different! If you are interested in: -Moving and getting to know the company
-Getting a deeper look at what our work style is
-Learning our rep
-Building trust, authenticity and freedom into your movement
-Starting your Monday off in the most kickass way possible-- THEN YOU SHOULD COME! CLASS INFO:
Price: $10
Location: Stomping Ground LA, Garage Space
Join Psychopomp in our Open Company Class! Class. Class will include Modern and Contemporary styles with strengthening drills and floorwork peppered in. This class is to prepare the company dancers for rehearsal so each class will be different! If you are interested in: -Moving and getting to know the company
-Getting a deeper look at what our work style is
-Learning our rep
-Building trust, authenticity and freedom into your movement
-Starting your Monday off in the most kickass way possible-- THEN YOU SHOULD COME! CLASS INFO:
Price: $10
Location: Stomping Ground LA, Garage Space
About
Psychopomp Dance Theater:
Psychopomp Dance Theater is grounded in viscerally athletic movement exploring social issues through the structure of Jewish culture and thought. Shenandoah’s ancestral heritage of collaboration and discourse informs the collaborative culture of Psychopomp. The company resists hierarchical structures in creation processes. This work style gives more responsibility and respect to the dance artists in the company. Inclusion and empathy based communication is at the root of our work style. Every artist in the company is asked to not only authentically represent their own identity but also question how their choices impact others. Psychopomp’s work pushes the limits of dynamically powerful athleticism and storytelling while remaining grounded in virtuosic dance technique through a ritualistic mental rigor. The movement style is rooted in complex floorwork, powerful acrobatic Parkour movements and draws spaciously powerful traveling techniques from Horton and Limon. For Shenandoah, movement and her ethno-religious Jewish identity are one in the same. Both offer ways to question and challenge standards to fulfill the duty of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. @psychopompdance @shenandoahharris www.psychopompdance.org
Psychopomp Dance Theater is grounded in viscerally athletic movement exploring social issues through the structure of Jewish culture and thought. Shenandoah’s ancestral heritage of collaboration and discourse informs the collaborative culture of Psychopomp. The company resists hierarchical structures in creation processes. This work style gives more responsibility and respect to the dance artists in the company. Inclusion and empathy based communication is at the root of our work style. Every artist in the company is asked to not only authentically represent their own identity but also question how their choices impact others. Psychopomp’s work pushes the limits of dynamically powerful athleticism and storytelling while remaining grounded in virtuosic dance technique through a ritualistic mental rigor. The movement style is rooted in complex floorwork, powerful acrobatic Parkour movements and draws spaciously powerful traveling techniques from Horton and Limon. For Shenandoah, movement and her ethno-religious Jewish identity are one in the same. Both offer ways to question and challenge standards to fulfill the duty of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. @psychopompdance @shenandoahharris www.psychopompdance.org
Price: $15
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Class will consist of a guided movement meditation dedicated to building support and communication throughout the body and an opportunity to learn phrases from Bret’s choreographic works! Designed for pre-professional and professional dance artists. TO REGISTER: https://www.bemoving.org/inperson-classes *If you are unable to financially contribute at this time please contact [email protected] for more options.
Class will consist of a guided movement meditation dedicated to building support and communication throughout the body and an opportunity to learn phrases from Bret’s choreographic works! Designed for pre-professional and professional dance artists. TO REGISTER: https://www.bemoving.org/inperson-classes *If you are unable to financially contribute at this time please contact [email protected] for more options.
About
Bret Easterling:
Bret Easterling is an international dance artist who received his BFA from The Juilliard School in 2010. He was a formative member of Gallim Dance in New York City before joining Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv where he worked for seven years. Now based in Los Angeles, Bret is on faculty at USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, Westside Dance Project, and the Artistic Director of BEMOVING. He is a certified Gaga teacher who directs the Gaga Intensives in Los Angeles and New York, and curated the first ever Gaga Program at The School at Jacob’s Pillow. He stages Naharin’s repertory at collegiate BFA programs and professional dance companies around the world. Bret has created many works of his own, receiving the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography in 2010, and recognized as a Choreographic Fellow at the inaugural Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow in 2018.
Bret Easterling is an international dance artist who received his BFA from The Juilliard School in 2010. He was a formative member of Gallim Dance in New York City before joining Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv where he worked for seven years. Now based in Los Angeles, Bret is on faculty at USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, Westside Dance Project, and the Artistic Director of BEMOVING. He is a certified Gaga teacher who directs the Gaga Intensives in Los Angeles and New York, and curated the first ever Gaga Program at The School at Jacob’s Pillow. He stages Naharin’s repertory at collegiate BFA programs and professional dance companies around the world. Bret has created many works of his own, receiving the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography in 2010, and recognized as a Choreographic Fellow at the inaugural Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow in 2018.
Price: $20
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Gaga/people classes offer a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve their flexibility and stamina, exercise their agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.
SIGN UP HERE Throughout the class, participants are guided by a series of evocative instructions deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation. Rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga.
Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. Classes last approximately one hour.
Gaga/people classes offer a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve their flexibility and stamina, exercise their agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.
SIGN UP HERE Throughout the class, participants are guided by a series of evocative instructions deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation. Rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga.
Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. Classes last approximately one hour.
About
Anna Long:
Anna Long is a performer, choreographer, and certified Gaga teacher based in the United States. Raised in Massachusetts, Anna began her dance training with New England Dance Academy of Attleboro. She earned her degree in dance and biology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. In 2011, Anna was accepted to the pilot Gaga Teachers Training program in Tel Aviv, and trained under Ohad Naharin, Gaga faculty, and members of Batsheva Dance Company and became a certified Gaga teacher in 2012.
Since then, she served as a guest teacher for CSU Long Beach, Columbia College, TU Dance, Lee Saar, and Punch Drunk Theatre’s Sleep No More. Anna has produced and created works independently and has choreographed commissions by Visceral Dance Chicago, the Cambrians, Dance Works Chicago, Elements Contemporary Ballet, Loyola Marymount College, Dance in the Parks Chicago, Extensions Dance Company, and James Graham Dance Theater in San Francisco. Anna was chosen as a featured artist for Dixon Place’s Under Exposed series in New York City and presented work in the inaugural Netherlands Choreography Competition in Spring 2017, the 2019 Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and at the 2019 VHS International Solo Dance Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. www.thisisannalong.com | Photo credit: Owen Scarlett
Anna Long is a performer, choreographer, and certified Gaga teacher based in the United States. Raised in Massachusetts, Anna began her dance training with New England Dance Academy of Attleboro. She earned her degree in dance and biology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. In 2011, Anna was accepted to the pilot Gaga Teachers Training program in Tel Aviv, and trained under Ohad Naharin, Gaga faculty, and members of Batsheva Dance Company and became a certified Gaga teacher in 2012.
Since then, she served as a guest teacher for CSU Long Beach, Columbia College, TU Dance, Lee Saar, and Punch Drunk Theatre’s Sleep No More. Anna has produced and created works independently and has choreographed commissions by Visceral Dance Chicago, the Cambrians, Dance Works Chicago, Elements Contemporary Ballet, Loyola Marymount College, Dance in the Parks Chicago, Extensions Dance Company, and James Graham Dance Theater in San Francisco. Anna was chosen as a featured artist for Dixon Place’s Under Exposed series in New York City and presented work in the inaugural Netherlands Choreography Competition in Spring 2017, the 2019 Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and at the 2019 VHS International Solo Dance Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. www.thisisannalong.com | Photo credit: Owen Scarlett
Price: $10
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Creatively stimulating while also technically demanding, Ground Grooves is a floorwork-based class. Move in and out of the floor with awareness and control through floorwork and release technique, while getting sweaty to some sweet, sweet jams. This class is geared towards intermediate to professional level dancers and is taught by both Gracie Whyte and Laura Berg. Click here to register
Creatively stimulating while also technically demanding, Ground Grooves is a floorwork-based class. Move in and out of the floor with awareness and control through floorwork and release technique, while getting sweaty to some sweet, sweet jams. This class is geared towards intermediate to professional level dancers and is taught by both Gracie Whyte and Laura Berg. Click here to register
About
Ground Grooves:
Ground Grooves is a contemporary floorwork technique emphasizing continuous and fluid movement from a methodical and safe approach. Working both with and without momentum, dancers move through a variety of rolls, slides, inversions, and shoulder rolls. Ground Grooves classes emphasize a lush, spongy movement quality by absorbing impact with softness. Ground Grooves (Mon/Fri) is suitable for advanced/professional dancers. GG101 (Sat) is suitable for beginning/intermediate movers.
Ground Grooves is a contemporary floorwork technique emphasizing continuous and fluid movement from a methodical and safe approach. Working both with and without momentum, dancers move through a variety of rolls, slides, inversions, and shoulder rolls. Ground Grooves classes emphasize a lush, spongy movement quality by absorbing impact with softness. Ground Grooves (Mon/Fri) is suitable for advanced/professional dancers. GG101 (Sat) is suitable for beginning/intermediate movers.
Price: Pay What You Can
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
For the first portion of class, Genna works from the inside out finding the balance between strength & delicacy. Using guided tasks to engage the senses and the imagination, participants focus on listening to the body, while accessing new ways to create form and movement patterns. For the second portion of class, participants will have an opportunity to apply the tasks used in the warm up either in phrase work or improvisational structured tasks. REGISTER HERE
For the first portion of class, Genna works from the inside out finding the balance between strength & delicacy. Using guided tasks to engage the senses and the imagination, participants focus on listening to the body, while accessing new ways to create form and movement patterns. For the second portion of class, participants will have an opportunity to apply the tasks used in the warm up either in phrase work or improvisational structured tasks. REGISTER HERE
About
Genna Moroni:
Genna Moroni is an L.A. native. She attended LACHSA and graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 2012. She began her professional career in 2010 performing Barak Marshall’s work with BODYTRAFFIC and has continued to work as his assistant ever since. From 2012-2019, Genna was a founding member of Ate9 Dance Company. She performed at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow, White Bird Dance, American Dance Festival, Vishneva Fest (Moscow), The Joyce Theater and The Wallis Theater and had the opportunity to work with Guy Shomroni/Yaniv Abraham, Shahar Binyamini and Tom Weinberger in developing new works. Moving forward in her career, Genna is translating her concert dance experience as she dives into working in commercial film/stage. The roster of artists she has choreographed for/assisted includes HAIM, Dua Lipa, One Republic, Dominic Fike, Marina, Leven Kali/Smino/Topaz Jonez, Zella Day, Francisca Valenzuela, Empress Of, Marian Hill, Jarina De Marco and others. She has been fortunate to perform in videos for many of the listed above, as well as Perfume Genius, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sam Fischer and NIKI. As of 2020, eager to keep her connection to the concert dance stage, Genna has been fortunate to present work at R.E.D.C.A.T. in LA, Congress: Legalize Dance and was selected for the 2020 To the Sea: Dance Concerts at the Pier (presented by Jacob Jonas the Company postponed due to COVID). In 2020, Ballet Florida premiered her new work “tethered dreams” at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and she received a commission to stage her work “a space devoid of matter” on LA Contemporary Dance Company. Most recently, she is in the studio preparing for her December premiere at R.E.D.C.A.T. NOWFEST 2020. Outside of choreographing and performing, Genna is a certified Gaga teacher, part-time supplemental faculty member at USC Kaufman and a Dance Church® Teacher. She loves awakening the joy and potential of movement for both dancers/non-dancers! gennamoroni.com IG: @minimoroni *Photo by Silvia Grav
Genna Moroni is an L.A. native. She attended LACHSA and graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 2012. She began her professional career in 2010 performing Barak Marshall’s work with BODYTRAFFIC and has continued to work as his assistant ever since. From 2012-2019, Genna was a founding member of Ate9 Dance Company. She performed at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow, White Bird Dance, American Dance Festival, Vishneva Fest (Moscow), The Joyce Theater and The Wallis Theater and had the opportunity to work with Guy Shomroni/Yaniv Abraham, Shahar Binyamini and Tom Weinberger in developing new works. Moving forward in her career, Genna is translating her concert dance experience as she dives into working in commercial film/stage. The roster of artists she has choreographed for/assisted includes HAIM, Dua Lipa, One Republic, Dominic Fike, Marina, Leven Kali/Smino/Topaz Jonez, Zella Day, Francisca Valenzuela, Empress Of, Marian Hill, Jarina De Marco and others. She has been fortunate to perform in videos for many of the listed above, as well as Perfume Genius, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sam Fischer and NIKI. As of 2020, eager to keep her connection to the concert dance stage, Genna has been fortunate to present work at R.E.D.C.A.T. in LA, Congress: Legalize Dance and was selected for the 2020 To the Sea: Dance Concerts at the Pier (presented by Jacob Jonas the Company postponed due to COVID). In 2020, Ballet Florida premiered her new work “tethered dreams” at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and she received a commission to stage her work “a space devoid of matter” on LA Contemporary Dance Company. Most recently, she is in the studio preparing for her December premiere at R.E.D.C.A.T. NOWFEST 2020. Outside of choreographing and performing, Genna is a certified Gaga teacher, part-time supplemental faculty member at USC Kaufman and a Dance Church® Teacher. She loves awakening the joy and potential of movement for both dancers/non-dancers! gennamoroni.com IG: @minimoroni *Photo by Silvia Grav
