Dance de la Terre: Contemporary Community Dance Classes
/Contemporary & Fitness
Taught by Romy Keegan
with (and without) Live Drumming.
HEALING * JOYFUL * FITNESS & DANCE
Dance de la Terre is a welcoming, beginner-friendly, community oriented blend of natural, organic movement, accented and embellished by the most accessible elements of ballet, West African, modern and jazz. This playful fusion produces an original contemporary style of dance and fitness that gets a body moving, while offering extended lines, beautiful shapes and dynamic self expression! ALL FOR DANCE AND DANCE FOR ALL!
Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:45-7:15pm
Dance de la Terre I & II with Live Drumming
original contemporary dance with a fitness and cardio flare to get you freed up and MOVING!
Monday Night, basic combo. Wednesday Night, more developed combo.
Both nights, Mixed Level, perfect for beginning dancers, layered with optional complexities for more experienced dancers of any level.
Sundays, 3:30-5pm
Dance de la Terre III
dynamic original contemporary dance that stands on its own, but builds on Monday and Wednesday classes, while incorporating a musical flow, to continue getting you freed up, moving, and EXPRESSING!
Mixed Level, longer combos and layered movement for more experienced dancers of any level. Beginners welcome.
Please EMAIL ROMY for alternate locations.
$20 | 21 w/check | 22 online
$80 + tax for 4 class card good for 3 months,
or $75 + tax for 4 classes when you pay monthly.
$160 + tax for 8 class card good for 3 months,
or $145 + tax for 8 classes when you pay monthly.
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More about Dance de la Terre: Dance of the Earth
Original, Exuberantly Graceful, Community Contemporary Dance & Fitness, for dancers of all levels,
with (and without) live drumming!
With a reverent bow to ALL my dance teachers along the Way,
first and foremost, my inspirational mother, dancer and painter, Gina Shaw,
through her to my Grandmother and Great Aunt, who were known as Sonja & Bianca, a celebrated dance duo in Germany, Europe and the US,
to my primary West African dance teachers, Sarah Brown, Kim Vetter, Rujeko Dumbutshena and Mary Nakigan, as well as deeply valued guest, master teachers, Yousef Kombasa, Amara Camara, Titos Sampa, and M’biba Benge, among others,
to my secondary ballet and contemporary teachers, Suzanne Johnson and Celia Dale,
Dance de la Terre, (Dance of the Earth), is the original, joyful expression and continued exploration and development of my own unique, personal, dance and movement vocabulary. It is inspired by a lifetime of ballet training and over 25 years of West African dance, and intended to capture the spirit, energy, and open-accessibility of a community African dance class, (with its repetitive, organic and natural movement), while harnessing the focus, flexibility, strength, and grace, inherent in the most accessible elements of ballet, modern and jazz.
The original and creative utilization of these movements produces a playful, dynamic, and exuberantly graceful contemporary fusion, suitable and accessible, for everyone who LOVES TO DANCE!
Dance de la Terre, (formerly Ballet-Afrique) was first introduced to my closest students in the autumn of 2012, and continues to blossom and grow through these on-going, supportive, playful, community dance classes. It is also the unique and magickal movement used for choreography in Dancing Our Magick: Dancing the Directions to Awaken a Magickal Life, a seven week workshop blending magickal principles with magickal movement.
Curious? Check out:
https://dancingourmagick.com/seasonal-ceremonial-workshops/
CLASS: Naturally aerobic and energizing movements are broken down and moved across the floor, both right and left sides, for initial exercise and pure joy of natural movement. Totally accessible lines, shapes & movements that flow, utilize core strength and develop inherent grace, are then woven throughout, embellishing and accenting the overall expression of the choreography and of the dancers present. Class begins and ends with stretching and strengthening exercises and important technique designed for the whole dancer. Each class is its own full lesson, so dancers have the freedom to drop-in, building their abilities and comfort levels based entirely on their own time and inspiration!
ATTIRE: Wear anything that you can move and stretch in, and feel joyful, beautiful, handsome and free in - we tend to wear leggings or dance shorts with a dress or skirt & shirt on top. We dance barefoot, but ballet shoes, jazz shoes, and even sneakers are welcome if needed or desired!