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CLASS NEWS: Tuesday night class is back!

ON-GOING CLASSES:

Drop-ins Welcome!

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Technique
Mondays 9:30-11:30am at Velocity Dance Center (Capital Hill, Seattle)

**this class will be taught at the intermediate advanced level but accessible to intermediate students who wish to challenge themselves.

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Technique
Tuesdays 6:15-7:45pm at Velocity Dance Center (Capital Hill, Seattle)

Slow-Intermediate **On break until further notice.
Thursdays 6-7:45pm at Velocity Dance Center (Capital Hill, Seattle)

Aiko's Contemporary Modern Technique class is informed by contemporary ballet and modern dance techniques, somatic and release techniques, contact and improvisation. The class will encourage students to find confidence and joy in their own creative and physical potential while challenging them to find a greater range of expression through dynamic physicality and specificity. Students will explore new movement possibilities and work to increase their understanding of momentum and weight. They will also play with being upside down and right side up and moving in and out of the floor with ease. Full-bodied phrases full of motion, oppositional tension, and weight change will follow a simple warm-up that emphasizes clean technique and articulation of the body. Be prepared for a work out!

$15/single class; 5 class card/$70 (good for any of Aiko’s classes).

Private and semi-private lessons available. Please contact Aiko at info@acorndance.org.

 "I always leave Aiko's class feeling exhilarated, like my whole body was really worked and challenged. She’s very knowledgeable about the body and alignment and is able to attend to each student and inspire each of us to move beyond our comfort zone and expand our edges. And I love Aiko's movement vocabulary -it feels wonderful in my body!"
N. Swanson

"Never been so tired and so happy. Aiko's movement is truly delicious - my body just soaks it up. She seamlessly weaves together detailed anatomical information with rich, challenging and rewarding physical exercises. In Aiko's class, the learning never stops.""
-John Dixon


UP-COMING WORKSHOPS:

Registration may be required for workshops.

Strictly Seattle Summer Dance Intensive
July 12-31,2010
Aiko teaches/choreographs in the Evening Session
for full class schedule and more info, please visit
http://velocitydancecenter.org/program/strictly-seattle/

Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation
August 1-8, 2010
Aiko co-teaches Contact Improvisation with UMAMI Performance.
for full class schedule and more info, please visit
http://www.danceartgroup.org/sfadi/sfdi.html