Dance de la Terre: Contemporary Community Dance Classes
/Contemporary & Fitness
Taught by Romy Keegan
with (and without) Live Drumming.
HOLIDAY BREAK: 12/20-12/28
Mondays, 5:45-7:15pm
Dance de la Terre with Live Drumming
original contemporary dance with a fitness and cardio flare to get you freed up and MOVING!
brand new beginners to intermediate
Wednesdays, 5:45-7:15pm
Dance de la Terre with Music
dynamic original contemporary dance that stands on its own, but builds on Monday class, while incorporating a musical flow, to continue getting you freed up, moving, and EXPRESSING!
beg/int - int
Sundays, 3:30-5pm
Rehearsal Class
learn & review signature community dance repertoire to participate in ongoing performance opportunities, or just for FUN!
mixed level
Please EMAIL ROMY to register.
$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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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!
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!
Dance de la Terre | Rhythmical
Original Contemporary Fusion Dance with a FITNESS Flare, and live drumming
Mondays, 5:45-7:15pm
EMAIL ME for Netherwoods, near north valley location.
$20 + tax + online fees, Thank you!
> brand new beginners to intermediate levels
Accompanied by live drumming, Dance de la Terre Basics is designed for anyone to drop in, anytime, with or without previous dance experience. It is my goal and my greatest JOY to provide a welcoming, fun, playful dance experience grounded in accessibility for newcomers, yet layered with optional complexity for more experienced dancers. This is a fun, mixed level class, great for adults who are ready to inhabit and explore their bodies, and GROVE! Foundational dance steps, concepts and combos come together to support a healthy balance of mind, body, heart and spirit, while also building community and connection.
Dance de la Terre | Lyrical
Original Contemporary Dance with Music
Wednesdays, 5:45-7:15pm
EMAIL ME for Netherwoods, near north valley location.
$20 + tax + online fees, Thank you!
> beg/int - int
This WELCOMING intermediate, beginner friendly, mixed level choreography class is a playground for community oriented dancers ready to have fun and embody joyous, accessible movement designed to open the heart, free the mind, enliven the spirit and ground into the body. It is focused on expanding and developing basic choreography from Monday, fundamental to more complex dance skills, and good technique for ongoing dance. It is designed to develop the unique and original Dance de la Terre specific movement vocabulary, which fosters exuberance, agility, and grace, as well as community and connection.
Dance de la Terre | Performance
Community Performance Dance Class
Sundays, 3:30-5pm
EMAIL ME for Netherwoods, near north valley location
$20 + tax + online fees, Thank you!
> mixed level
Sunday Afternoon Class:
Rehearsal Class, 3:30-5pm
is an open, mixed level and mixed style class, to provide a weekend dance option, as well as to share and review movement from the growing repertoire of 'Romydancing' style movement pieces we've created and performed together over the years.
From our annual 'Crane Dance' to the more recent, ‘Rise Up’, the movement is truly, Ballet de la Terre: a dynamic mix of original, Dance de la Terre: organic, African influenced movement, accented and augmented with the shapes, lines and transitions of contemporary and classical Ballet, side by side, as well as woven together.
As with all my classes, the movement is intended to express the Beauty and Joy of Dance for adult dancers of all levels, while the culture, the atmosphere of class, is intended to be a welcoming, playful, all inclusive celebration of the Beauty and Joy of Dance, and one another.
Whether you are inspired to perform in upcoming performance opportunities, or just to MOVE your body, this class is an invitation to come Dance in the exquisite Light of the Netherwoods Dance Temple, on Sunday Afternoons.
More about Dance de la Terre
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!