WildHeart

Artist Residencies
2025-01-01 00:00 - 2025-12-31 00:00 (America/New_York)

Vocal Tapestry: Winter Class Series
2025-02-10 19:00 - 20:30
Connect to your creative spirit. Trust the flow of your imagination through vocal improvisation. Dive into the unique expression of your voice while thrilling your soul in a thriving community. This class series will teach you to tap into your creative essence through the building blocks of improvisation.

Vocal Tapestry is a safe and fun space to weave together principles of spontaneous composition, such as rhythm, melody, and dynamics. Each week, we will play games and learn practices that focus on a specific element of vocal improvisation to develop your awareness, skills, and confidence.

Sign up for the entire 8 week series, or drop in for individual classes.

January 13

January 20

January 27

February 3

February 10

February 17

February 24

March 3

8-Week Winter Movement Series
2025-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
The Winter Movement Series offers a rich opportunity to try many different forms of movement, meet new people, and get the body going during the cold months!

All workshops are Open Level, anyone and everyone interested in moving creatively and collaboratively in a supportive environment is welcome to join.

Please read each workshop description to learn more about what will be offered.

All workshops are OPEN TO ALL. If you have knee pads, consider bringing them. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle.

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Dates:

Thursdays 6-8pm (Biodanza: 6-8:30)

Trial week: January 9th, come check it out, by donation!

8-week series: January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, and March 6

Drop-ins welcome.

Cost:

Sliding scale per class: $15-$30

Sliding scale for the whole series: $110-$220

*No one turned away for lack of funds

**We are offering 2 free BIPOC spots for each class. Please reach out to get the code if you are interested in one of these spots.

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January 9: Contemporary Dance (Trial week, workshop by donation!)

Neva Cockrell (she/her)

Join Neva for an accessible, welcoming, body-positive dance environment. The workshop will begin with a technique-based warm up with an emphasis on grace, strength, and body awareness. Next, we’ll do a series of exercises to build specific Contemporary Dance skills and an ability to move freely with ease. We’ll then learn a contemporary phrase, practicing full-body movement and musicality. All the while breathing, connecting, and generally having a great time! Neva’s unique style of contemporary dance blends modern techniques and somatic movement, with a touch of both ballet and acrobatics.

January 16: Somatic Movement Exploration

Nikita Patel (she/her)

We will use both language and other parts of the brain-body to create individual movement vocabulary to help make sense of everyday life experiences.

January 23: BIODANZA, THE ART OF VIVENCIA*

Circles, walks, dances, games, archetypal gestures, authentic encounters with oneself, others, the world, music and silence… Biodanza is an invitation to cultivate the «Art of Vivencia», the ability to be completely invested in the moment. It allows us to explore gesture as the vocabulary that creates the songs of our lives and to rekindle our connection to self,

others and the world. Reconnecting with simple movements of everyday living, we’ll weave our dances in passionate blissful dialogues of humanity, in moving poetry, rediscovering the joy and profound grace of being alive… together!

*Biodanza is for everyone, proficient dancers and people

who still think they cannot dance.

**Please note this workshop is from 6-8:30.

January 30: Partnering

Courtney Moreno (she/they)

We will warm up by playing with how the solo body can partner with the floor, walls, and each other, through relating as well as using touch/contact. Partnering phrases will be taught as well as generated through prompts, and lead to a final group dance.

February 6: Collaborative Explorations through Scores: Mutually Authored Improvisation

Lauren Mark 麥心怡 (she/her)

Class will be a combination of suggestions and invitations for shared offerings, following a theme inspired by seasonal elements and movements from Chinese medicine. In January, Lauren will start by suggesting circular and spiraling movement sequences to warm the body, collecting energy through a centripetal, inner-directed energetic focus that mirrors that of winter’s corresponding element – water. Movers will then be invited to collaboratively create scores, a method that takes ideas, images, and metaphors to set up exercises for everyone to explore the theme in motion, together. Lauren is interested in inviting everyone who shows up to dance opportunities for mutual inspiration and individual spontaneity, experimenting with both the familiar and unfamiliar.

February 13: Moving Musically and Theatrically

Jerylann Warner (she/her)

Together we will learn fun phrases that bring lyrics to life! What makes choreography musical and theatrical is typically performative for sure but it also requires cunning acuity and full on expression. Like living room dancing and shower singing.

Expect to learn phrases that are staged, singing is NOT required but welcome. All levels.

February 20 BIODANZA, THE ART OF VIVENCIA*

Circles, walks, dances, games, archetypal gestures, authentic encounters with oneself, others, the world, music and silence… Biodanza is an invitation to cultivate the «Art of Vivencia», the ability to be completely invested in the moment. It allows us to explore gesture as the vocabulary that creates the songs of our lives and to rekindle our connection to self,

others and the world. Reconnecting with simple movements of everyday living, we’ll weave our dances in passionate blissful dialogues of humanity, in moving poetry, rediscovering the joy and profound grace of being alive… together!

*Biodanza is for everyone, proficient dancers and people who still think they cannot dance.

**Please note this workshop is from 6-8:30.

February 27 : Skinner Releasing Technique (getting in to get out to get in)Julie Mayo (she/her)

In Releasing class we will experiment with movement improvisation through the tuning of our perceptions in stillness and spontaneous movement. Supported by the space in and around us, as well as the room as a whole, we will utilize various kinds of music/sound, guided kinesthetic imagery and hands-on partner studies. Through our practice together, we will cultivate letting go of unnecessary tension(s) and, at one’s own pace, allow for new movement possibilities to arise.

Releasing is beneficial to movers at any level, with or without previous dance training, to people recovering from injuries, as well as to professional dancers, actors, musicians and artists of all kinds. This class is OPEN TO ALL.

March 6: BIODANZA, THE ART OF VIVENCIA*

Circles, walks, dances, games, archetypal gestures, authentic encounters with oneself, others, the world, music and silence… Biodanza is an invitation to cultivate the «Art of Vivencia», the ability to be completely invested in the moment. It allows us to explore gesture as the vocabulary that creates the songs of our lives and to rekindle our connection to self,

others and the world. Reconnecting with simple movements of everyday living, we’ll weave our dances in passionate blissful dialogues of humanity, in moving poetry, rediscovering the joy and profound grace of being alive… together!

*Biodanza is for everyone, proficient dancers and people who still think they cannot dance.

**Please note this workshop is from 6-8:30.

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Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-02-16 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

First and Third Sundays

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm (with rotating teachers)

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

Register in advance

Or if you prefer to pay cash at the door, send us an email to let us know you’re coming, so we can help you find your way to the studio.

Overnight guests welcome (with advance notice). Let us know if you want to make a longer visit to WildHeart… email contact@wildheartcenter.art

Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info. Refund policy No refunds, no transfers
