Let's move together!

danceTactics performance group enjoys offering an array of learning opportunities for the public, and enjoys collaborating with communities around the world to share some of our creative movement tools that can benefit professionals, students, and movers of multiple levels and backgrounds.

Artistic Director Keith A. Thompson tailors these workshops and classes specifically after being in dialogue with our partners, so that these opportunities to dance, move, and create are both meaningful and enjoyable for all participants.

Master Classes:

Movement Practices

Students learn about the elements of dance (space, time, the body, energy), and investigate the complexity and articulation of multiple pathways through (and between) spaces.

Repertory

In this class, students get a chance to learn excerpts from various performances from danceTactics’ exciting repertory.

Physics of Partnering

In this class, dancers will experiment. Working with tools to strengthen movement fundamentals as well as enhance their perceptual abilities, we will discover unconventional support strategies which will surprise us. Dancers will work with a variety of partners, exploring movement initiations, kinesthetic responses, and multiple uses of momentum.

Improvisation

By cultivating short movement studies of choreography as a communicative art form, focus is placed on the exploration of ideas and meaning. In this class, emphasis is placed on the development of personal style as a finding one's own expressive medium. Students develop physical and perceptual skills basic to Contact Improvisation, falling, rolling, giving and taking weight, moving comfortably from the floor to the air, and communication through touch.

Creative Framing

Employing a variety of dance techniques and improvisational structures, this class will expose the learner to new ways of forging their own creative process. Each person will be nurtured towards becoming more innovative in their work, honing their creative eye for crafting, assembling, and manipulating material towards movement-based storytelling.

Interactive Demonstration

danceTactics is known for its intricate and complex choreographic language, and this Interactive Demonstration offers a unique window into Thompson’s artistic eye and gives clues as to how his dances evolve from an initial thought into a formal physical expression. Discussions on how various pieces from the company's repertory are supported by company members demonstrating key phrases and excerpts.

workshops:

Public Workshops

danceTactics welcomes opportunities to engage not only with professional dancers and pre-professional students, but everyone within a community who shares our passion for investigating movement within a creative setting. 

In our Community Workshops, various ideas about the moving body are shared within an environment that fosters collaboration and communication from every participant. Combining elements of improvisation, creative framing, and various movement practices refined by danceTactics, this workshop will help everyone and anyone find a way in to making  their own creative movement expression.

TACTICS: Phrase to Performance Workshops

These workshops are specifically designed for participants who wish to not only explore various forms of movement and improvisation, but learn how to apply these tools into a concrete process which culminates in a public showing of a collaborative work-in-progress.