Taught as part of WildHeart’s Contact Improvisation Sundays rotating teacher series, this class explored weight as both fact and possibility. Beginning with solo investigations of gravity and support, participants moved into partnered practices of sharing, lightening, and offering weight. We explored how subtle shifts in pressure and attention could create pathways toward ease, texture, momentum, and lift. The class culminated in a guided score where these ideas opened into play, allowing participants to listen through touch and discover the many tones weight can take between bodies.

This class was offered in Wallkill, New York.

Soft as a Cat, Quick as a Bird, was a pilot class exploring the naftali method. Participants cultivated agility, speed, and fluidity, moving with the precision and intention of a cat’s grace and a bird’s quickness. Exercises emphasized maintaining consistent speed, maximizing body activity, and exploring the full range of motion. The class focused on embodying both softness and quickness through structured exercises and improvisation.

Playground Serieswas a month-long community movement series designed to inspire improvisation, creative play, and self-expression. Participants explored spatial dynamics, honed their listening skills, and cultivated comfort in their own bodies, responding fluidly to shifting environments. Open to all levels, the series encouraged rediscovery of innate creativity and joy in movement.

Both classes were offered in Tijuana, Mexico.

An all-level community class drawn from Portal, a larger work directed by Jess Humphrey. Participants explored practices of “seeing” and “sketching,” observing other dancers and translating what they absorbed into their own movement choices. There was a lightness to the way we experienced our visual field and physical choice-making, cultivating presence and agility in the body.

This class was offered in Tijuana, Mexico.

Orientation & Weight Workshop (co-led with Richie Villa) was a three-hour workshop exploring changing orientation and weight through score-based movement investigations. Participants experimented with one partner vertical while the other was inverted, and explored how weight could be distributed across different body parts to create rolling points that propelled momentum. Exercises were interwoven with reflection, cultivating presence, awareness, and responsiveness in each moment.

This class was offered in San Diego, California.

This class, offered before a community contact jam, explored the edges of the body — both within and without. The external edges were more obvious, while the internal edges required subtle exploration and definition. These edges became places to hang, hold, fling, and rest, while also inviting softness and agility in how dancers moved through them. We moved in and out of partnerships, using this as a working score, which led seamlessly into the community contact improvisation jam.

The class was offered in San Diego, California.

Hillel of San Diego State University hosted a community movement class that wove together elements of the Gaga movement language with improvisational partner work. This innovative approach merged the fluidity and sensory exploration of Gaga with the interaction of partner improvisation. Participants explored sensations, textures, and rhythms within their bodies, softening into awareness before extending into partnerwork. The practice emphasized presence, responsiveness, and agility in co-creation, while partnerships developed their own unique language of movement built on shared understanding and mutual trust.

This class was offered in San Diego, California.

Creative Movement in Jerusalem was created for Hasidic women, held just before the Jewish High Holidays to infuse the new year with vitality and renewal. The workshop provided a sacred space for playful, uninhibited movement exploration, fostering connection to self, body, and community. Through crafted exercises, participants explored the edges of their own movement potential — softening habitual boundaries while cultivating presence and embodiment.

This class was offered in Jerusalem, Israel.

The Popup Community Movement Class invited participants to explore softness as a foundation for movement. Using anatomy, imagery, and metaphor, the class guided participants through exercises designed to deepen their awareness of softness in motion. These explorations highlighted how softness can generate swift, efficient, and agile movement patterns.

This class was offered in San Diego, California