Grounded Dancing With Joy-Marie Thompson
Let's sweat! Let's dance! Most of us started practicing movement on the ground when we were babies by crawling, stumbling, and falling... let's get back to that. The class will begin with a hand and wrist warm up that will move into core activations and lateral flexions; culminating into an improvised dance at the end of class. Leaving you energized, warm, activated, and inspired. A cool down will be given at the end. Modifications are encouraged and will be given. The class encourages the ability to be on all fours and requires enough space to lay down in an X.MORE ABOUT JOY-MARIE: Joy-Marie Thompson is a dance artist, performer, and movement practitioner based in Pittsburgh, PA and New York City. Please visit her website imjoymarie.com for more information.
Joy-Marie Thompson (she/they), graduated from SUNY Purchase's Conservatory of Dance in 2018, is a performing artist based in New York City.
She is currently a full time performer for Punchdrunk/Emursive's NYC production of Sleep No More. When not performing they are studying the connections of race, neuroqueerness, and somatic movement.