Celebrate AAPI Month!

Celebrate AAPI Month!

Mark Morris Dance Center

Co-presented by BAM and Mark Morris Dance Group

Co-presented by BAM and Mark Morris Dance Group

Co-presented by BAM and Mark Morris Dance Center

mbrace the wisdom of your body and move with ease, grace, and vitality. This somatic movement class is designed to engage your whole body through gentle, mindful exercises that enhance flexibility, balance, and overall well-being. With intentional movements, breathwork, and relaxation techniques, you’ll release tension, improve mobility, and rediscover the joy of moving freely.

Class will be accompanied by affirmative, upbeat, and restorative music. We will affirm the wisdom of our bodies, foster resource sharing and build social connections. No prior experience is needed—just a willingness to explore movement in a way that feels natural and nourishing. All movements can happen seated or standing. Feel free to bring water 

This class will offer a space for considerations on the ways innovation and improvisation are primary rituals that build tradition across various Black cultures. André M. Zachery, artistic director of Renegade Performance Group will lead participants in a movement lab structured class, in collaboration with four Black/POC sound artists, that dig into the continuous relationship between movement and sound in the African Diaspora. The class will hold a strong emphasis on generating non-verbal language and connection. Movement tasks, phrase work, sonic generation and conversation will center around contemporary Black cultural practices.

Learn the fundamentals of Afro-Haitian dance and immerse yourself in drum-based movement. Through this style rooted in Haitian folklore, develop new relationships to spatial awareness, body control, human connection, polyrhythm, percussion, and pulse.

This class explores several approaches to Broadway Jazz and features combinations inspired by classic choreographers such as Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, and Michael Bennett, as well as contemporary choreographers like Andy Blankenbuehler and Josh Bergasse. The class begins with a long warm-up consisting of a center barre, a strength and alignment series, and a long stretch. Every week the class breaks down aspects of jazz technique and ends with a long theater dance combination.