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Everyone is an artist ready to be unlocked.
We want all people, at any age, to be curious, passionate, and supported in their learning. Stomping Ground L.A. seeks to be a connector of our community to facilitators and teachers in a variety of creative fields to expand our knowledge and capabilities. If you ever question if you belong here - the answer is - yes. Please consider this your creative home for learning, growing, and new experiences. Please join us for a class, workshop, or open jam session!
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Schedule
Price: $299 Monthly
Room: Garage
Class Description:
A private acting studio/scene study class focused on classic playwrights $299/mo - Register by emailing David: [email protected]
A private acting studio/scene study class focused on classic playwrights $299/mo - Register by emailing David: [email protected]
About
David Bridel:
As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.
As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.
Price: $20
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
About
Dance Church®:
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Price: $17
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Embodying Ballet with Bruce McCormick is a forward-thinking approach to the language of ballet grappling with the question of what ballet means today. In this intermediate/advanced class, dancers are encouraged to employ ballet as a means to personal expression. The class is based in anatomical principles, musical investigation and qualitative exploration with a focus on functional movement through space. Dancers are encouraged to bring their full selves to the room to create a space where both individual and community practice are prioritized. Classes on 6/1 and 6/8 will be followed by an hour of contemporary ballet phrase work. Register Here
Embodying Ballet with Bruce McCormick is a forward-thinking approach to the language of ballet grappling with the question of what ballet means today. In this intermediate/advanced class, dancers are encouraged to employ ballet as a means to personal expression. The class is based in anatomical principles, musical investigation and qualitative exploration with a focus on functional movement through space. Dancers are encouraged to bring their full selves to the room to create a space where both individual and community practice are prioritized. Classes on 6/1 and 6/8 will be followed by an hour of contemporary ballet phrase work. Register Here
About
Bruce McCormick:
Bruce McCormick is a choreographer, performer, educator and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA from the University of Washington where he was also on faculty. He performed in thirteen countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet, and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Guest Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC. McCormick’s work has been performed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and he has taught masterclasses for several companies including BalletX, Gibney, Company, Malpaso Dance Company, National Dance Company of Wales, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and Whim W’Him. He choreographed the opera Eugene Onegin for the Bern Municipal Theater, as well as The Merry Widow and William Tell for the Korea National Opera. His most recent festival credits include Men in Dance, Dance Deck, the Seattle International Dance Festival, Boulder Ballet Film Festival, the ITS Festival in Amsterdam and the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City. He has presented for the National Dance Education Organization, and his scholarship has been published by The International Journal of Arts Theory and History. In 2018, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice in Ballet Technique.
Bruce McCormick is a choreographer, performer, educator and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA from the University of Washington where he was also on faculty. He performed in thirteen countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet, and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Guest Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC. McCormick’s work has been performed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and he has taught masterclasses for several companies including BalletX, Gibney, Company, Malpaso Dance Company, National Dance Company of Wales, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and Whim W’Him. He choreographed the opera Eugene Onegin for the Bern Municipal Theater, as well as The Merry Widow and William Tell for the Korea National Opera. His most recent festival credits include Men in Dance, Dance Deck, the Seattle International Dance Festival, Boulder Ballet Film Festival, the ITS Festival in Amsterdam and the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City. He has presented for the National Dance Education Organization, and his scholarship has been published by The International Journal of Arts Theory and History. In 2018, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice in Ballet Technique.
Price: $20
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
About
Dance Church®:
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Price: $10
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
GG 101 is an entry-level floorwork class, geared towards movers of all levels who want to get more comfortable on the floor. Click here to register.
GG 101 is an entry-level floorwork class, geared towards movers of all levels who want to get more comfortable on the floor. 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: $15
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Ground Grooves INT is geared towards movers who are looking to boogie and train in the intermediate floorwork level. Every Saturday afternoon at SGLA. Click here to register.
Ground Grooves INT is geared towards movers who are looking to boogie and train in the intermediate floorwork level. Every Saturday afternoon at SGLA. 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: $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: $100/ 6 classes, $75/4 classes, $20/ drop-in
Room: Garage
Class Description:
Contemporary Technique and Partnering. This is an all-levels contemporary technique class in which we will shed any and all serious dance personas and build an atmosphere of creative support and brave risk-taking in our dance. At its core, this is basic contemporary dance focusing on principles of momentum, suspension and release, and a three-dimensional relationship to space. Each class will progress from improvisation, stretching and strengthening sequences, partnering exercises, and sweeping movement phrases. We will connect to our intrinsic joy, play, musicality, and wild abandon. This class builds on itself and is designed as a six-week series for all levels, but you are welcome to drop-in at any time. If you are an absolute beginner, you are encouraged to start at the beginning of the series. Register Here
Contemporary Technique and Partnering. This is an all-levels contemporary technique class in which we will shed any and all serious dance personas and build an atmosphere of creative support and brave risk-taking in our dance. At its core, this is basic contemporary dance focusing on principles of momentum, suspension and release, and a three-dimensional relationship to space. Each class will progress from improvisation, stretching and strengthening sequences, partnering exercises, and sweeping movement phrases. We will connect to our intrinsic joy, play, musicality, and wild abandon. This class builds on itself and is designed as a six-week series for all levels, but you are welcome to drop-in at any time. If you are an absolute beginner, you are encouraged to start at the beginning of the series. Register Here
About
Darrian O'Reilly:
Darrian O'Reilly is a performer, choreographer, curator, and movement instructor. She has presented work in venues across Los Angeles, including Electric Lodge, HomeLA, Redcat, Highways Performance Space, Pieter Space, Beyond Baroque, and El Camino College, among others. Darrian holds a BA in individualized Study from the Gallatin School at NYU and MFA in Dance from the World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She currently serves as adjunct dance faculty at East Los Angeles College. Learn more about Darrian here.
Darrian O'Reilly is a performer, choreographer, curator, and movement instructor. She has presented work in venues across Los Angeles, including Electric Lodge, HomeLA, Redcat, Highways Performance Space, Pieter Space, Beyond Baroque, and El Camino College, among others. Darrian holds a BA in individualized Study from the Gallatin School at NYU and MFA in Dance from the World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She currently serves as adjunct dance faculty at East Los Angeles College. Learn more about Darrian here.
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: $15 cash / $17 Venmo/Zelle
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Refresh or enhance your ballet technique! This 7-week class is geared towards intermediate+ levels, but all are welcome to join. Anh’s classical ballet class nurtures greater body awareness through optimal alignment and placement fundamentals, with an emphasis on musicality and self-expression. Sprinkled with French terminology, and voilà! No pre-registration, pay at the door.
Refresh or enhance your ballet technique! This 7-week class is geared towards intermediate+ levels, but all are welcome to join. Anh’s classical ballet class nurtures greater body awareness through optimal alignment and placement fundamentals, with an emphasis on musicality and self-expression. Sprinkled with French terminology, and voilà! No pre-registration, pay at the door.
About
Anh Dillon:
Anh Dillon began her classical ballet education at the Conservatoire Niedermeyer in Paris, France, and later went on to study under Nicole Karys (Ballet du XXe Siècle), Menia Martinez (Cuban National Ballet), and in more recent years, Master Stefan Wenta (Warsaw’s National Opera). She later expanded her training to contemporary dance forms, giving her the versatility to professionally join contemporary ballet and contemporary jazz companies as a soloist and principal dancer. She’s worked extensively in both the concert and commercial scenes. Anh is the recipient of a Lester Horton Award for best performance and had the great opportunity to choreograph for music artist Prince. Anh's experience as a dance educator spans over two decades. She currently teaches at the ABT (American Ballet Theatre) Gillespie School. She has been on faculty for the Joffrey Ballet School summer intensives and audition tours since 2013, and has taught at The EDGE PAC, Loyola Marymount University, as well as worldwide for masterclasses. Anh is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. For more info, contact Anh at [email protected] or on Instagram: @anhdillon
Anh Dillon began her classical ballet education at the Conservatoire Niedermeyer in Paris, France, and later went on to study under Nicole Karys (Ballet du XXe Siècle), Menia Martinez (Cuban National Ballet), and in more recent years, Master Stefan Wenta (Warsaw’s National Opera). She later expanded her training to contemporary dance forms, giving her the versatility to professionally join contemporary ballet and contemporary jazz companies as a soloist and principal dancer. She’s worked extensively in both the concert and commercial scenes. Anh is the recipient of a Lester Horton Award for best performance and had the great opportunity to choreograph for music artist Prince. Anh's experience as a dance educator spans over two decades. She currently teaches at the ABT (American Ballet Theatre) Gillespie School. She has been on faculty for the Joffrey Ballet School summer intensives and audition tours since 2013, and has taught at The EDGE PAC, Loyola Marymount University, as well as worldwide for masterclasses. Anh is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. For more info, contact Anh at [email protected] or on Instagram: @anhdillon
Price: $299 Monthly
Room: Garage
Class Description:
A private acting studio/scene study class focused on classic playwrights $299/mo - Register by emailing David: [email protected]
A private acting studio/scene study class focused on classic playwrights $299/mo - Register by emailing David: [email protected]
About
David Bridel:
As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.
As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.
Price: $20
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
About
Dance Church®:
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Price: $17
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Embodying Ballet with Bruce McCormick is a forward-thinking approach to the language of ballet grappling with the question of what ballet means today. In this intermediate/advanced class, dancers are encouraged to employ ballet as a means to personal expression. The class is based in anatomical principles, musical investigation and qualitative exploration with a focus on functional movement through space. Dancers are encouraged to bring their full selves to the room to create a space where both individual and community practice are prioritized. Classes on 6/1 and 6/8 will be followed by an hour of contemporary ballet phrase work. Register Here
Embodying Ballet with Bruce McCormick is a forward-thinking approach to the language of ballet grappling with the question of what ballet means today. In this intermediate/advanced class, dancers are encouraged to employ ballet as a means to personal expression. The class is based in anatomical principles, musical investigation and qualitative exploration with a focus on functional movement through space. Dancers are encouraged to bring their full selves to the room to create a space where both individual and community practice are prioritized. Classes on 6/1 and 6/8 will be followed by an hour of contemporary ballet phrase work. Register Here
About
Bruce McCormick:
Bruce McCormick is a choreographer, performer, educator and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA from the University of Washington where he was also on faculty. He performed in thirteen countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet, and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Guest Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC. McCormick’s work has been performed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and he has taught masterclasses for several companies including BalletX, Gibney, Company, Malpaso Dance Company, National Dance Company of Wales, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and Whim W’Him. He choreographed the opera Eugene Onegin for the Bern Municipal Theater, as well as The Merry Widow and William Tell for the Korea National Opera. His most recent festival credits include Men in Dance, Dance Deck, the Seattle International Dance Festival, Boulder Ballet Film Festival, the ITS Festival in Amsterdam and the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City. He has presented for the National Dance Education Organization, and his scholarship has been published by The International Journal of Arts Theory and History. In 2018, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice in Ballet Technique.
Bruce McCormick is a choreographer, performer, educator and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA from the University of Washington where he was also on faculty. He performed in thirteen countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet, and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Guest Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC. McCormick’s work has been performed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and he has taught masterclasses for several companies including BalletX, Gibney, Company, Malpaso Dance Company, National Dance Company of Wales, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and Whim W’Him. He choreographed the opera Eugene Onegin for the Bern Municipal Theater, as well as The Merry Widow and William Tell for the Korea National Opera. His most recent festival credits include Men in Dance, Dance Deck, the Seattle International Dance Festival, Boulder Ballet Film Festival, the ITS Festival in Amsterdam and the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City. He has presented for the National Dance Education Organization, and his scholarship has been published by The International Journal of Arts Theory and History. In 2018, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice in Ballet Technique.
Price: $20
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
Class Description: "Dance Church® is a movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 55ish-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing together — it’s the dance party you wish you had last night. For more info and to register:
https://go.dancechurch.com/irl Registration opens on THURSDAY each week for the Saturday classes.
About
Dance Church®:
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Dance Church® is on a mission to empower dancers everywhere. From teachers to takers, we believe that everyone is a dancer, and dance is for everyone. From the studio to your living room, we envision a world where people can dance together from wherever — forever. Beginning as a small Sunday morning movement practice, Dance Church was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Over the course of a decade, a joyful community of dancers and non-dancers alike have turned Dance Church into a massive gathering of people around the world, dancing and sweating together. To learn more: https://go.dancechurch.com/
Price: $10
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
GG 101 is an entry-level floorwork class, geared towards movers of all levels who want to get more comfortable on the floor. Click here to register.
GG 101 is an entry-level floorwork class, geared towards movers of all levels who want to get more comfortable on the floor. 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: $15
Room: Warehouse
Class Description:
Ground Grooves INT is geared towards movers who are looking to boogie and train in the intermediate floorwork level. Every Saturday afternoon at SGLA. Click here to register.
Ground Grooves INT is geared towards movers who are looking to boogie and train in the intermediate floorwork level. Every Saturday afternoon at SGLA. 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: $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: $100/ 6 classes, $75/4 classes, $20/ drop-in
Room: Garage
Class Description:
Contemporary Technique and Partnering. This is an all-levels contemporary technique class in which we will shed any and all serious dance personas and build an atmosphere of creative support and brave risk-taking in our dance. At its core, this is basic contemporary dance focusing on principles of momentum, suspension and release, and a three-dimensional relationship to space. Each class will progress from improvisation, stretching and strengthening sequences, partnering exercises, and sweeping movement phrases. We will connect to our intrinsic joy, play, musicality, and wild abandon. This class builds on itself and is designed as a six-week series for all levels, but you are welcome to drop-in at any time. If you are an absolute beginner, you are encouraged to start at the beginning of the series. Register Here
Contemporary Technique and Partnering. This is an all-levels contemporary technique class in which we will shed any and all serious dance personas and build an atmosphere of creative support and brave risk-taking in our dance. At its core, this is basic contemporary dance focusing on principles of momentum, suspension and release, and a three-dimensional relationship to space. Each class will progress from improvisation, stretching and strengthening sequences, partnering exercises, and sweeping movement phrases. We will connect to our intrinsic joy, play, musicality, and wild abandon. This class builds on itself and is designed as a six-week series for all levels, but you are welcome to drop-in at any time. If you are an absolute beginner, you are encouraged to start at the beginning of the series. Register Here
About
Darrian O'Reilly:
Darrian O'Reilly is a performer, choreographer, curator, and movement instructor. She has presented work in venues across Los Angeles, including Electric Lodge, HomeLA, Redcat, Highways Performance Space, Pieter Space, Beyond Baroque, and El Camino College, among others. Darrian holds a BA in individualized Study from the Gallatin School at NYU and MFA in Dance from the World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She currently serves as adjunct dance faculty at East Los Angeles College. Learn more about Darrian here.
Darrian O'Reilly is a performer, choreographer, curator, and movement instructor. She has presented work in venues across Los Angeles, including Electric Lodge, HomeLA, Redcat, Highways Performance Space, Pieter Space, Beyond Baroque, and El Camino College, among others. Darrian holds a BA in individualized Study from the Gallatin School at NYU and MFA in Dance from the World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She currently serves as adjunct dance faculty at East Los Angeles College. Learn more about Darrian here.
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: $299 Monthly
Room: Garage
Class Description:
A private acting studio/scene study class focused on classic playwrights $299/mo - Register by emailing David: [email protected]
A private acting studio/scene study class focused on classic playwrights $299/mo - Register by emailing David: [email protected]
About
David Bridel:
As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.
As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.
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