April
with Elyssia Primus and Friends
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
April Session 2 with Elyssia Primus and Friends
Free to Attend!
Join Elyssia and some of her favorite collaborators for an exploration of contemporary partnering. This series breaks down the mechanics of "shared weight" to help dancers build a foundation of trust and communication. Together, we will navigate the transition from solo contemporary technique into contact, learning to execute creative lifts safely and effectively. Whether you’re new to partnering or looking to deepen your practice, we prioritize a supportive environment with modifications for all comfort levels.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
April Session 3 with Elyssia Primus and Friends
Free to Attend!
Join Elyssia and some of her favorite collaborators for an exploration of contemporary partnering. This series breaks down the mechanics of "shared weight" to help dancers build a foundation of trust and communication. Together, we will navigate the transition from solo contemporary technique into contact, learning to execute creative lifts safely and effectively. Whether you’re new to partnering or looking to deepen your practice, we prioritize a supportive environment with modifications for all comfort levels.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
April Session 4 with Elyssia Primus and Friends
Free to Attend!
Join Elyssia and some of her favorite collaborators for an exploration of contemporary partnering. This series breaks down the mechanics of "shared weight" to help dancers build a foundation of trust and communication. Together, we will navigate the transition from solo contemporary technique into contact, learning to execute creative lifts safely and effectively. Whether you’re new to partnering or looking to deepen your practice, we prioritize a supportive environment with modifications for all comfort levels.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
May Session 1 with Doreen Prempeh
Free to Attend!
Doreen's Afro-Contemporary series centers rhythm, groove, and grounded movement, blending high-energy footwork with contemporary flow. Each class builds from a rhythm-driven warm up into dynamic choreography focused on stamina, direction changes, and musicality. Across the series, dancers will explore four core themes: personality in movement, fluidity with control, breath and voice as rhythm, and embodied awareness with and without music.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
April Session 1 with Elyssia Primus and Friends
Free to Attend!
Join Elyssia and some of her favorite collaborators for an exploration of contemporary partnering. This series breaks down the mechanics of "shared weight" to help dancers build a foundation of trust and communication. Together, we will navigate the transition from solo contemporary technique into contact, learning to execute creative lifts safely and effectively. Whether you’re new to partnering or looking to deepen your practice, we prioritize a supportive environment with modifications for all comfort levels.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
March Session 4 with Amya Brice
Free to Attend!
Weight and Release: Amya's classes center around weight and how it can be used to our advantage. Drawing inspiration from release technique, we will play with balance, falling and rising, and weight distribution. Class will include an improvisational exploration and a short phrase taught by Amya. This is your time for self-exploration. Feel free to do what feels best for you! Come in with a playful spirit and an open mind!
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
March Session 3 with Amya Brice
Free to Attend!
Weight and Release: Amya's classes center around weight and how it can be used to our advantage. Drawing inspiration from release technique, we will play with balance, falling and rising, and weight distribution. Class will include an improvisational exploration and a short phrase taught by Amya. This is your time for self-exploration. Feel free to do what feels best for you! Come in with a playful spirit and an open mind!
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
March Session 2 with Amya Brice
Free to Attend!
Weight and Release: Amya's classes center around weight and how it can be used to our advantage. Drawing inspiration from release technique, we will play with balance, falling and rising, and weight distribution. Class will include an improvisational exploration and a short phrase taught by Amya. This is your time for self-exploration. Feel free to do what feels best for you! Come in with a playful spirit and an open mind!
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
March Session 1 with Amya Brice
Free to Attend!
Weight and Release: Amya's classes center around weight and how it can be used to our advantage. Drawing inspiration from release technique, we will play with balance, falling and rising, and weight distribution. Class will include an improvisational exploration and a short phrase taught by Amya. This is your time for self-exploration. Feel free to do what feels best for you! Come in with a playful spirit and an open mind!
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
February Session 4 with Natalia Lisina
Free to Attend! In this class we will dive into contemporary dance and explore movement from a variety of styles.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
February Session 3 with Natalia Lisina
Free to Attend! In this class we will dive into contemporary dance and explore movement from a variety of styles.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
February Session 2 with Natalia Lisina
Free to Attend! In this class we will dive into contemporary dance and explore movement from a variety of styles.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
February Session 1 with Natalia Lisina
Free to Attend! In this class we will dive into contemporary dance and explore movement from a variety of styles.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
January Session 4 with Heather Acomb
Free to Attend! Alignment-based and heart-centered, these classes will explore the intersection of dance and yoga on both physical and philosophical planes. We will focus on breath, somatic awareness and mind-body connectivity all while honoring the individual self and playfully enjoying being in the present moment. Some of the movement concepts may look or feel like dance, and some of it may look or feel like yoga.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
January Session 3 with Heather Acomb
Free to Attend! Alignment-based and heart-centered, these classes will explore the intersection of dance and yoga on both physical and philosophical planes. We will focus on breath, somatic awareness and mind-body connectivity all while honoring the individual self and playfully enjoying being in the present moment. Some of the movement concepts may look or feel like dance, and some of it may look or feel like yoga.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
January Session 2 with Heather Acomb
Free to Attend! Alignment-based and heart-centered, these classes will explore the intersection of dance and yoga on both physical and philosophical planes. We will focus on breath, somatic awareness and mind-body connectivity all while honoring the individual self and playfully enjoying being in the present moment. Some of the movement concepts may look or feel like dance, and some of it may look or feel like yoga.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
January Session 1 with Heather Acomb
Free to Attend! Alignment-based and heart-centered, these classes will explore the intersection of dance and yoga on both physical and philosophical planes. We will focus on breath, somatic awareness and mind-body connectivity all while honoring the individual self and playfully enjoying being in the present moment. Some of the movement concepts may look or feel like dance, and some of it may look or feel like yoga.
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
January *Special NYD* Session with Laura D'Amico
About the Class
Free to Attend!
Create new beginnings for 2026 with a one-off FREE workshop with Laura D’Amico. Using approachable and gentle improvisational tools gleaned from her Fulbright year working with artists from major European companies, emphasis will be placed on waking up the creative spirit which lives in all of us so we may stay inspired from within during this winter season.
About Laura
ARTIST BIO: Laura D’Amico is a multi-hyphenate performance artist with a formal background in STEM and agriculture. She is a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar, where she trained and performed for one year with the Anfibia Artist Program in Bologna, Italy, under the direction of Mattia Gandini, Martina La Ragione, and Carlo Massari. Using heightened sensitivity and vulnerability from her lived experiences, her work emphasizes blurring the lines between humans and the animal species with which we interact.
While in Italy, Laura has closely worked on her breadth of creation tools from originating artists from the Batsheva Company, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekybus, Les Ballets C de la B, Compagnie Maguy Marin, Peeping Tom, C&C Company, Artemis Danza, and many freelance Italian dance artists.
Under various teachers both in Europe and North America, Laura has taken five Gaga Lab intensives, including learning directly from Ohad Naharin while in Italy, and regularly continues this movement research remotely online.
In the USA, she has studied under multiple intensives and workshops with Andrea Miller and the artists of GALLIM, as well as Garth Fagan Dance. She regularly works with Commotion Dance Theatre, and practices her skills at The Auguste Roost, both in Rochester, NY.
Instagram: @thelauradamico
Full bio, CV, and reels at https://www.dancerpage.com/LauraD
Dance Injury Prevention
This class is designed to build the strength, stability, and resilience needed to help prevent injuries and promote longevity in your dance performance and practice.
December Session 3 with Anne Wilcox
Free to Attend! Anne’s classes draw from her studies of Limon technique, principles of conditioning, and somatic practices. She enables dancers to care and attend to their bodies through dynamic phrase work that balances core-strength, use of breath, musicality, and self- expression. She believes technique classes are to support the vast demands of choreography and to facilitate joint mobility and stability throughout the body.
