improvisational Dance practices

Improv Practices With Brandon Graf

Through this course, students will learn tools and methods of improvisation, giving them endless ways into their own discovery of movement possibilities. At its core, improvisation is a way of listening and responding to conditions and desires. Students will learn how to listen and respond to movement scores, physical modalities and their own imaginations, working in both group and individualized practices.

Dancers will also find more details and qualities in movement that will carry over to their other trainings. Improvisation is not only a tool for creation, but it is a way of training. The dynamism and diversity of today's dance world requires dancers to be quick learners, detail-oriented and open-minded, and move through discomfort. Interruption and surprise necessary for growth. Through this course, we will learn to embrace these aspects of dance. Each dancer deserves the chance to realize all movements are valid, have a source of expression and can be unidentifiable. It is in this space of possibility that all codified forms we know of were born. It's here that we are able to train our ability and taste for quality, essence and creation.

~ Brandon Graf

We're sure you have questions about our improvisational classes at Pennsylvania Academy of Dance Arts, so feel free to give us a call today.