Cirque & Dance

Fire Burlesque


Burlesque

Pole Dance 

Bellydance

Performer Intensive

Fire Burlesque

Fire Burlesque will teach you how to combine your Fire Eating skills with smokin' hot Burlesque moves! This class will start by taking you through some burlesque basics such as the dip, roll, strut, shimmy, and shake! After we learn the basic body movement, we will take your new moves to the next level by creating a choreographed routine with your eating torches.

If you do not have experience with fire eating, you are still welcome to join though we would recommend taking the Fire Burlesque and Fire Eating workshop together for the most fun!

Instructor: Alikat Rose

Price: $35

Schedule:
May 16th, 5:00 - 6:30pm

Burlesque Series

Ever want to learn everything there is burlesque? Well here it is! In this 3-week burlesque series, you will learn basic burlesque movement, dance technique, sexy struts, chair tricks, strip tease, choreography, and floor work You will also work on character development that will help you be a rockstar in all elements of performance! Each 90 minute class focuses on different aspects of burlesque, giving you all the essential elements you need to bring out your inner burlesque vixen!

Part I
Work your body movement, build strength and flexibility, and get your sexy on in this dance-oriented class. This Workshop will start with burlesque basics for all levels of dancer; you will learn to dip, roll, strut, shimmy, and shake like a pro! After we learn the basic body movement, we will take your new moves to the next level and start creating a choreographed routine that you will build on with each workshop.

Part II
In week 2, we will add in some of the smokin' hot specialty tricks; including striptease, chair dance, and sultry floor work. You will learn how to tease and tantalize with shirts, hats, gloves, and boas. As Bombshells-in-training, we will take our hot new specialty skills and incorporate our favorite strip tease, chair trick and floor work moves into our choreographed burlesque routine from the previous workshop.

Part III 
The third workshop in our series takes your journey through Art of Burlesque to a true Rockstar level by adding in the elements of costuming and character. Add a little sultry to that strut, a little sass to that shimmy, a little flirt to that hair flip as we incorporate the idea of creating a fun burlesque “alter-ego” and bring some serious sexy to your moves. In this final workshop, we will bring all the elements of the previous two workshops together and finish our series routine with some serious attitude!

Instructor:
AliKat 

Prices:
$18 - 1 Class
$45 - 3 Classes

Schedule:
TBA

Pole Dance Basics

This unique pole class will give you a foundation for mastering power pole tricks. 
Each session will start with a 40 minute vinyasa flow yoga warm up to build strength and flexibilty.  We will also use the pole for flexibility and strength training.  In each session, students will learn basic pole spins, aerial pole spins, leg holds, climbing and lifts.  We will also learn how to use momentum, hand grips and body grips to build our repetior of moves.  Finally, we will learn to create combos and flow using the moves we master in the workshop series.  By the end of this series you will have a strong set of pole tricks and you will start to develop your own style on the pole.  In the final session, each student is invited to share a freestyle pole performance to the music of their choice.  

Level or Skill Requirements: some experience with dance or yoga recommended but not required.
What should students bring or wear: Bring a yoga mat and water.  Wear a sports top and shorts
This is a co-ed class.

Instructor:
Heather West

Prices:
$75 - 3 Week Series

Schedule:
January 19th - February 2nd
Monday's 6:00 - 7:30pm

Tribal Fusion Bellydance

This morning class flows from Deb's signature Fluid Core Yoga for Bellydancers warm up and bellyrollasana,  to core-conditioning, technique drills and dance combinations focusing on the mesmerizing torso isolations and layering of Tribal Fusion Bellydance.  Learn how to access the deeper musculature of your core, wake up your creativity, and embody the slinky, sultry, serpentine movements quintessential to tribal fusion.  A great way to start your day! 

Instructor: Deb Rubin

Schedule:
Jan 15th - Jan 29th
Thursday's 7:15 - 8:15pm

Prices: 
$18 - Drop In
$45 - All 3 Classes 

Performer Intensive

In this unique workshop series eight of LA's most well known and loved artists come together to share their performance secrets! 

November 23rd
Schedule:
10:00am - Strength Training with a Focus on Beginners Acro w/ Chris Filkins
11:10am - Releasing Your Inner Clown w/ Maggie Lally
12:30pm - The Art of Choreography and Dance w/ Stephanie F & Stephanie J
1:40pm - LUNCH BREAK
2:20pm - Emotional Character Building w/ Jesselynn Desmond
3:50pm - Performer Marketing & Business 101 w/ Kamala Mathis & Helen Olds
4:50pm - Groove Theory w/ Anthony Greenz

Meet the Instructors!

Price:
$120

Strength Training with a Focus on Beginners Acro
Instructor: Chris Filkins
10:00 - 11:00am

This performers intensive workshop will focus on employing acrobatic techniques to clown and create fun, interesting, and visually  compelling ways to up your performing chops.  Through a series of fun exercises, calibrations, & techniques you will learn how to up your acrobatic game safely for yourself and other performers.  This workshop is aimed at those of good physical health without a deep acrobatic background.  Taking this workshop will give you the skills and knowledge to safely approach improv acrobatic sequences in auditions, add simple acrobatic sequences to your bag of tricks, and add safe acrobatic improv to your creation process.

Releasing Your Inner Clown 
Instructor: Maggie Lally
11:10 - 12:20pm

Open the door to an expanded reality of possibilities on stage and off. This workshop focuses on the development of character and clown using exercises of connection, awareness, rhythm and vulnerability. Through these basic techniques we'll push through our boundaries as artists and find the freedom and ease to play with your partner and the audience. Students will learn to create honest and tangible connections using their physical imagination. In the classroom emotions will become grander, sense can be thrown out the window and chaos can be explored in a safe environment. Learn to break the rules and open up a new world of play for you and the audience.

The Art of Choreography and Dance
Instructors: Stephanie Federoff & Stephanie Jamieson
12:30 - 1:40pm

This class will be a fusion, of several styles and focuses that pull from the expertise of two very accomplished Stephanies. The class mission is simple, Dance: the what, the how, and the why.

THE WHAT: this covers the choreography, the various routines and movements you will be taught. At times we will begin and end a routine in one class while for some bigger pieces we will span multiple classes until the picture is fully matured.

THE HOW: Technique and proper execution are the building blocks any dancer should have in their arsenal. We will touch on various aspects of technique and conditioning that will act as a great foundation for the what and also as a healthy baseline for physical fitness.

THE WHY: so now that you know what moves you are supposed to be doing and how to do them properly the only question left is WHY you are doing them. Where is this movement coming from? What’s the story? What are you feeling? What should the audience take away about your life or your characters life from watching the routine?  We will focus a lot of attention on story telling as a group. Taking a concept from inception to completion. We will help the students learn a new way of approaching movement that will give them the tools they will need to tell their own stories. The why is the most important part of dance. It is the seed where beauty is sprouted. It is the roots that hold the piece up and create a power and strength behind every step. If you take only one thing away from this class…. It should be the why.

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LUNCH BREAK
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Emotional Character Building
Instructor: Jesselynn Desmond
2:20 - 3:40pm

Discover a whole new approach to your performance by bringing character, improv and varied levels of emotion into your current expression of art. This workshop aims to train students in the art of character development, emotional improvisation and learning to trust their instincts while making quick decisions in theatrical situations. Students gain experiential understanding of improvisation, emotional structuring and character development essential to performance. Through theater games and character skill building students develop tools to make them more trusting of their own impulses and more generous with their availability to play in performance. They learn to always go for active strong choices to play at the top of their intelligence and at the highest service of the performance. Students also experience that the best performance comes out of listening and responding honestly, not "going for jokes” or “doing the same ol' routine”.

Performer Marketing & Business 101 
Instructors: Kamala Mathis & Helen Olds
3:50 - 4:40pm

Kamala and Helen team up in this essential workshop that will teach you the most effective way to sell yourself as a performer and how you keep your passion alive. Kamala will show you how to turn your passion of performance into your profession and how to make money doing what you LOVE.  This is LA baby and with the right branding and professional "can do" attitude you literally CAN do anything you want if you put your mind to it! These topics will be discussed:

Getting Started as a Performer
Branding
Marketing/ Promotion
Insurance

Kamala will also touch on the finer points of negotiation with clients, the do’s and don’ts of production etiquette and general business tips. Helen will focus on how to show yourself to the world. She’ll teach you how to easily and affordably market yourself to clients. 

Groove Theory 
Instructor: Anthony Greenz
4:50 - 5:50pm

The Groove Theory workshop introduces students to dance concepts that will improve their practical understanding of rhythmic movement.  Students will learn a variety of steps that they will be able to apply their own style to.  These new steps and concepts will be developed into a short choreographed combination that will be drilled and preformed for fun at the end of the workshop.  The goal of the class is to teach steps and transitions that the students can take away and use as they develop their own dance style.  The class begins with a warm up to loosen up the body. Then the students learn specific techniques that include; body isolation, popping, body waves and gliding. In last section of the class specific groove steps or transitions are drilled or put into combinations that leave the student with movement they can apply later. The development and understanding of groove can add style to freestyle dance and dance choreography. This understanding can also create musicality in the performance of flow arts.