Navarra Novy

Gaga

Biography:

Navarra received her early training from Elaine Kudo and Buddy Balou in New Jersey. She graduated from The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance in 2006. She has danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal 2006­-2009, The Batsheva Ensemble 2009-­ 2010, and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet 2010­-2015. She has danced original works by Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Stijn Celis, Richard Siegal, Jo Stromgren and Emanuel Gat, et.al. She is currently freelancing in New York City with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Zoe | Juniper. She recently premiered Clear&Sweet, by Zoe | Juniper; Orpheus Unsung, by Mark DeChiazza; The Space Between, by Sonya Tayeh; Pierce the Veil, by Gregory Dolbashian; and was featured in the short films First Date, by Mary John Frank, and Just Dandy by Annika Sheaff.

Class Description:

Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others.