Movement and Community:
Dance Training and Choreography Residency
Free Classes
Movement and Community is a free, grant funded*, dance training program running from September 2025 through May 2026! This nine-month semi/professional level class series is designed to encourage consistency and camaraderie in Rochester's freelance dance community! Join us for weekly class offerings.
Injury Prevention
And Every Saturday at 12.30pm, Elyssia Primus will lead Dance Injury Prevention. A class designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
The Auguste Roost
All classes will be hosted at The Auguste Roost - a creative studio in Rochester. 250 Cumberland St, Rochester, NY, 14605.
Technique Class every Thursday and Saturday from September 2025 - May 2026
Guest Artists
Every Thursday at 6.30pm, we will host a 90 minute Contemporary Dance class with a new featured teaching artist every month. You can check the incredible line-up of artists below.
Community Building
Let's train, grow, and build community together. Dancers, mark your calendars for September, we'll see you at the Roost!
The Featured Artists
September - Avi Pryntz-Nadworny
October - TBD
November - Nanako Horikawa Mandrino
December - Anne Wilcox
January - Heather Acomb
February - Natalia Lisina
March - Amya Brice
April - TBD
May - Doreen S. Prempeh
*Funding provided by the City of Rochester through the ArtsBloom grant, a program of the City’s Percent for Art initiative.
The Artists
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Avi Pryntz-Nadworny
SEPTEMBER’S GUEST ARTIST
Avi Pryntz-Nadworny is an international choreographer, circus acrobat, and physical theatre artist.
He has taught and performed around the globe, including seven years touring internationally with PUSH Physical Theatre and performances with Cirque du Soleil, Cirq’ulation Locale, and CirqOvation. Avi brings a unique blend of physical precision and theatricality to his teaching, creating a space that is both technically rigorous and creatively expansive.
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TBD
OCTOBER’S GUEST ARTIST
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Nanako Horikawa Mandrino
NOVEMBER’S GUEST ARTIST
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Anne Wilcox
DECEMBER’S GUEST ARTIST
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Heather Acomb
JANUARY’S GUEST ARTIST
Heather Acomb, MFA, ERYT 500, RPYT, is a Rochester-based dance artist and somatic movement educator. She has more than 20 years of experience studying, practicing and teaching somatic movement through the lenses of dance and hatha yoga. She received her MFA in dance from SUNY Brockport in 2009, and currently teaches there full-time. Heather works closely with internationally known dance educator and celebrated choreographer Bill Evans. She is a former Bill Evans Dance Company member and a Certified Evans Teacher. She teaches Evans Technique and is well versed in the Laban/Bartenieff framework. She enjoys exploring the intersection of dance and yoga in her all of her movement classes on both physical and philosophical planes. Her classes invite all ages and levels of movers into their physical practice with a focus on breath, body awareness and mind-body connectivity all while honoring the individual self and playfully enjoying being in the present moment!
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Natalia Lisina
FEBRUARY’S GUEST ARTIST
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Amya Brice
MARCH’S GUEST ARTIST
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TBD
APRIL’S GUEST ARTIST
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Doreen S. Prempeh
MAY’S GUEST ARTIST
