Freestyle Praxis

About the Class

{All Levels- Freestyle} This class invites you spend an hour allowing yourself to explore what it means and what it feels like to dance like YOU, rather than trying to emulate another dancer/choreographer/instructor/Instagram celebrity. Villanelle will guide you through an extended, loosely directed freestyle warmup, after which you will move through a series of prompts that are intended to encourage exploration, ideation, interpretation, and expression in your unique movement. Class will end with a loosely guided freestyle cooldown and a few moments of reflection. For each prompt, you are free to use the floor, the barre, the walls, the poles on either spin or static, etc, and you are free to incorporate movement vocabulary of any level that is safe for you. The format of the class will change each time. Please bring kneepads; apart from that, you are free to wear anything you want and to change clothing and footwear (heels, sneakers, barefoot) from one prompt to another as you see fit. If you are learning to develop your own style and/or are interested in exploring movement as catharsis, this class is for you.