guest artist classes
2025 Visiting Artist Movement Classes
Visiting Artists and Artists-In-Residence from Keshet’s Makers Space Experience and Presenting Voices programs often offer guest classes, workshops, and master classes while they are in Albuquerque. Check here for classes as they come up, or follow our social media!
All classes are on a sliding scale from $0-$20 per class.
February 2025 Classes
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Friday, February 7 | 9:30am- 11am
Contemporary Improvisation with Jessy Crist
Contemporary Improvisation is a movement workshop focused on exploring our bodies’ authentic voice through movement. We will work to use effort as a motor and break out of habitual movement. Dancers will be encouraged to use their existing movement vocabulary as a support for new choice and risk taking. As a group we will access what we already know as genuine movement, cycling through a prompted improvisational score, and phrase work. This class is suited for those who have experienced movement on any level, and for those who have an understanding of their bodies abilities.
Saturday Feb 8 | 9:30am- 11am
Action Theater/Building a Communal Vocabulary with Isa Braun
Using improvisational exercises informed by the Viewpoints Training developed by Mary Overlie, this class will offer space for intent physical listening. We will use the six ‘viewpoints’ (space, time, shape, movement, story and emotion) to inform our collective physical storytelling using mostly pedestrian movements. No formal dance experience required!
Sunday, Feb 9 | 9:30am- 11am
The dance that doesn’t want anything/ Release technique to contact improvisation class with Maya Schwartz
In this class, we explore movement through disorientation,falling and failing, drawing inspiration from Donna Haraway’s “arms that don’t want anything.” We will focus on neutral touch, building trust, and shifting perspectives through inversions and falling.
Monday, Feb 10 | 9:30am- 11am
Attentive Motion with Sanchita Sharma
This class views attention as the primary resource to generate and organize bodily movement. We use improvisation, contemporary floor-work, and non-linear phrases to explore attention as an impulse and a tool to choreograph movement. We work to enhance spinal articulation and mobility, reconnect with our breath, and ground our bodies.
Tuesday, Feb 11 | 9:30am- 11am
Digging: imagination and self-centered exploration with Minh Nguyen
How do we move when we focus inward? After a guided warm-up of about 30 minutes the workshop will switch to facilitate the improvisatory searching where “diggers” move with eyes closed (preferably) while dedicated observers/containers witness and keep the diggers safe from harm and collision. It’s a practice to explore trust, observation, protection, discomfort, and expansion.
Wednesday Feb 12 | 9:30am- 11am
Zoning with José Luis
A composition class, we will arrive into self-awareness before offering prompts and conversations through dance making. I aim for us to leave with a broader sense of defining our practices as creators, observers, and supporters. Leading questions to investigate: How do you navigate with others? Who are you?