Vim Vigor Dance

VIM VIGOR is a contemporary dance-theater company dedicated to creating and performing original works by Shannon Gillen, elevating and nurturing the professional lives of young dance artists, and to cultivating public interest in the dance-theater art form by finding innovative ways to combine heroic physicality, electric emotional life and cinematic imagery.

Named among New York's top 20 artists by Brooklyn Magazine, Shannon Gillen is championed for her "emotionally compelling" work which "transcends the things it references and achieves a sort of Platonic ideal of intelligent and elevated movement." During an extensive career as a dancer and choreographer in NYC and Europe, Gillen was a member of the Johannes Wieland Company based at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany; won commissions from Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and the TIF Theater in Kassel; and has presented her work at New York Live Arts, Judson Church, Art Basel Miami Beach, New York City's River to River Festival, The Joyce Theater, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, amongst others. For more information please visit Vim Vigor Dance

Workshop Description

Dig into a special week of class with VIM VIGOR's Artistic Director, Shannon Gillen

Class is a physical and emotional rendering of form. Activating both athlete and artist, we will begin by generating heat throughout the body via tactile engagement of the skin, lush body- weight conditioning, and grounding exercises that draw forth the body's natural liquid state. We will continue with floorwork sequences that explore the body's natural stealth and sequential spine- focused exercises that reference gyrotonic principles of stabilization through contrasting directional forces, curvilinear motion and breath. This training is simultaneously coupled with improvisational and awareness propositions that aim to awaken the senses and their direct relationship with the moving body. Emphasizing strength and stamina while supporting healthy alignment, the class builds into long and complex phrase work drawn from Gillen's latest research, affording dancers the opportunity to dig deep into the resources of the body while traversing surprising and challenging landscapes of size, direction, tone and texture. Sweat, surprise and full- bodied ardor await.

Single Class: $25.00
Full Workshop: $80.00

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Register for more than one Session and receive a 5% multi-workshop discount (discount applied after check-out)