Dance Workshop with Elu Dance Company
Join Elu Dance Company for an immersive dance workshop!
Part one: a full body technique class influenced by release technique, pilates and the choreographer's aesthetic. Part two: challenge your creativity with improvisation & exploration. The choreographers might just be looking for dancers and playing with some movement for an upcoming project, so come if you're curious and/or just want to have some fun!
All are welcome, but class will be geared towards professional level dancers. Please reserve your spot ahead of time to ensure the class will run!
Elu Dance Company was founded in 2012 by Mackenzie Valley and Mikaela Brown. Before founding the company, Valley and Clark had the pleasure of dancing professionally for years in Cleveland’s modern dance company, Inlet Dance Theatre, under the direction of Bill Wade, as well as working on several projects under the direction of Dianne McIntyre. As Valley and Clark worked together in Inlet, they discovered a common passion to create and were drawn to similar aesthetics and a desire to portray the human spirit. Thus, they embarked on exploring their own choreographic voice in 2008.
For their artistic work, Valley and Clark have twice been awarded the Cleveland Workforce Fellowship through Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) and have been gifted a grant through Neighborhood Connections for their work in the Cleveland community. Their work, created for both the stage and unconventional venues, has been performed throughout the midwest in such spaces as Oberlin College, Cleveland Public Theatre, Fallout Urban Art Center, in alleyways (Ingenuity Festival), public squares, churches, schools and art galleries; and internationally in villages in Thailand & Cambodia, train stations and streets of Romania, Teatro Furio Camillo in Italy, and dusty plots of land under the Malawian sun. While in Italy they were invited to speak on the Vatican radio about dance and social justice. They have partnered with organizations such as Grace Ministries Thailand, Cornerstone of Hope, Ancient Path, and Rahab Ministries to offer movement as a medium through which to find some healing from grief, trauma, or a life of being held back. They often collaborate with other artists who deeply enrich their work; set designer Mark Sugiuchi, musician Jeremy Allen, lighting designer Trad Burns, and the artists of Ancient Path, just to name a few.
Schedule
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