High Five

HIGH FIVE: Is an improvisational movement class for people of color, minorities and their allies.I hope to help facilitate a shift that renegotiates this art form in a tangible way; making it financially accessible to those in my community. Imrovisational dance is an art form that engages space, movement, dance and language verbally and non verbally that can be a useful tool that can engage themes of oppression and struggle while also celebrating collective diversity by weaving stories together in unison through movement, which is historically a significant form of expression which is rooted within our cultural framework and paradigm.

In this class we will break away from our typical movement modes via resistance, impulse following, counter movement, mimicking etc.

We will also explore interpersonal relationships and how oppression and struggle influences these relationships.

This class is all levels.

About the Intructor: Joy Mariama Smith native Philadelphian, "renaissance woman". feeling limited and constrained by the traditional performance methodologies, they* sought to find a  process that was more conceptual and interdisciplinary. Smith is a practicing architect and performance artist who studied at the Lecoq School in Paris. They have continued to study various practices in improvisational movement in various master classes and at Ponderosa Movement and Discovery in Germany.