Ambo Dance Theatre

Sundays @ 12pm

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This class promotes functional strength, fitness, and wellness for all bodies, but especially catered to the dancing body. Exercises focus on proper alignment and kinesthetic awareness to create balance throughout the body and reduce the risk of injury, ultimately providing the necessary tools to increase endurance, range of motion, and overall physical performance.

 

For adults and teens.

All experience levels welcome!

All equipment provided!

Wednesdays @ 5pm

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An introductory rhythm tap class focused on building your fundamental tap vocabulary. Combinations focus on reinforcing foundational movements, while also introducing rhythmic intricacy, musicality, and layering of steps. ​

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For adults and teens.

All experience levels welcome!

Tap shoes required.

Sundays @ 1pm

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Explore modern dance elements, such as contraction and release, fall and recovery, initiation points and kinetic chains through the body, and use of the spine in movement. This class typically starts on the floor with Laban/Bartenieff-based exercises and gradually builds to standing and moving across the floor. 

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For adults and teens. 

Significant prior movement experience recommended.

Layers are recommended.

Wednesdays @ 6pm

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Building off of fundamental tap movement vocabulary, this class integrates more complex steps such as pullbacks, wings, and riffs in order to introduce more complex musicality, syncopation, and rhythmic understanding. This class also explores improvisation techniques and layered rhythms to introduce more nuanced choreographic structures.

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For adults and teens.

Prior tap experience required.

Tap shoes required.

Mondays @ 5:30pm

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Rooted in modern dance, this class integrates technical elements from ballet and jazz to open up your movement repertory. Exercises typically begin on the floor and work their way to standing, emphasizing body awareness and proper engagement and alignment.

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For adults and teens.

Some movement experience recommended.

Fridays @ 5pm

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This class will explore different strategies and partnering techniques rooted in contact improvisation and gender-neutral non-traditional partnering. Participants will learn to use their body weight and skeletal structure strategically to build lifts and partnered weight sharing that they can then apply broadly through structured improvisational exercises and movement phrases.

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For adults and teens.

Some prior movement experience recommended.

Come solo or bring a partner!

Wednesdays @ 5pm

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An introductory modern dance class designed to introduce the body to Laban-Bartenieff-based movement pathways. This gentle class focuses on building strong modern dance foundations in order to expand your range of motion, spatial awareness, and muscular integration.

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For adults and teens.

All experience levels welcome!

Fridays @ 6pm

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Much like actors can improvise a scene together, so can dancers collectively improvise a dance that looks choreographed right on the spot! This class places an emphasis on group compositional improvisation. Through games, activities, and scores, we'll learn strategies for connecting as an ensemble, building and structuring dance extemporaneously, and treating improvisation as performance. 

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For adults and teens.

All experience levels welcome!