Dance de la Terre: Contemporary Community Dance Classes
/Contemporary & Fitness
Taught by Romy Keegan
with (and without) Live Drumming.
(See below for days, times and levels!)
LATE SUMMER to EARLY FALL Beautiful Outdoor Classes in Garfield Park!
Cool green grass under our feet, late summer sunsets lighting our open air studio, and groves of old cotton woods, relishing our every move, and joyously dancing with us!
Mondays, 5:45-7:15pm
Dance de la Terre | Lyrical
original contemporary dance
Wednesdays, 5:45-7:15pm
Dance de la Terre | Rhythmical, with live drumming
original contemporary dance with a fitness flare
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$20 + 1.58 tax/class.
$75 + 5.91 tax for 4 classes.
$140 + 11.03 tax for 8 classes - VALID FOR 3 MONTHS - COME DANCE!
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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
Wednesdays, 6-7:15pm
OUTDOORS for Summer!
Garfield Park, in the Near North Valley
West off 4th between Candelaria and Menaul
(Turn West onto Mathew, between UNM Health Services & Tafoya Farms Dispensary)
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!
Or, pay what you can, and just come DANCE!
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
Mondays, 6-7:15pm
OUTDOORS for Summer!
Garfield Park, in the Near North Valley
West off 4th between Candelaria and Menaul
(Turn West onto Mathew, between UNM Health Services & Tafoya Farms Dispensary)
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!
Or, pay what you can, and just come DANCE!
This intermediate, 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 choreography, 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 | Ceremonial - ONLINE Hybrid Class
Original Contemporary Dance with a ceremonial flare,
Saturdays, 3:33-4:44 MST
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!
Or, pay what you can, and just come DANCE!
Step into a Magickal Circle and offer your Beautiful, Healing Movement as Prayer.
Connect with other Intuitive Healing Arts Practitioners
Playful, Welcoming, Community Dance & Fitness for dancers and magick makers of all levels
Everything you love about Dance de la Terre, with a Magickal Flare. Each class is a dance ceremony, beginning with an invocation calling in Spirit, Mother Earth, Angels, Ancestors, the Directions and the Elements, and includes an oracle message along with a short, Spirit Medicine intuitive clearing and healing session.
More about Dance de la Terre
With a reverent bow to ALL my Teachers along the Way, including first, my mother, Gina Shaw, and through her my Grandmother and Great Aunt, Sonja and Bianca, I am indebted to my primary dance teachers, Sarah Brown, Kim Vetter, Rujeko Dumbutshena and Mary Nakigan, for West African, and my primary ballet and contemporary teachers, Suzanne Johnson and Celia Dale. Dance de la Terre, (formerly known as Ballet-Afrique), 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! Ballet-Afrique, now called Dance de la Terre, 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?
www.DancingOurMagick.com
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!