This class explores one's relationship to gravity, space, time, shape, and to others through contemporary technique and improvisational structures. Dancers will have the opportunity to be a part of the creative process of creating a new dance work. She was invited to show her choreography at the American College Dance Festival. Class Description Creative Moves and Dance Techniques is one step up from Creative Movement. The class encourages exploration of space and having fun with movement while learning dance technique.
Students learn a vocabulary of steps and have opportunities to choreograph their own dances.
Students learn individually as well as in groups and with partners. This class will merge basic creative movement principles with aerobic exercise. In 1995, she developed Sketches of Dance, a creative movement workshop designed for the elderly and physically challenged, for which she was awarded grants from the Prince George's Arts Council for the past two years. She has been performing with Coyaba Dance Theatre since 1997 and was appointed Asisistant Director of the company in 1999. Class Description Marcia's Beginning African Dance class explores traditional West African dances and rhythms and is great for adults with little or no experience.