San Francisco

Mondays: 9am-10:30am | ODC Dance Commons

Wednesday: 9am-10:30am | ODC Dance Commons

Saturdays: 10am-11:30am | Dance Mission Theater

East Bay

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Chimene’s Hawkins-based class is accessible to all levels. Informed by the Alexander Technique, students somatically find the strength and release of each movement through the efficient use of the head, neck and torso connection.

The basis of Chimene’s classes and choreography allows movers of all different levels and disciplines to explore the play, ease and dramatics of dance while building strength, confidence and a sensory vocabulary that connects this art form to their daily lives.

Nuts & Bolts of the Class

Class is an hour and a half in length.

The beginning of each month brings a new set of exercises and phrase work that will build in difficulty as the month progresses. The goal of this is to give the dancer multiple opportunities to view and experience the movement and know it more fully.

The class begins with a guided floor warm up that invites the joints to open, the mind to focus and the muscles to warm. It is a moving meditation that varies only slightly from time to time so that dancers can really let the mind go and focus in on sensory experience of movement in the body.

The class moves into standing exercises in the center that work on technique and introduce some of the movement that will be seen in the main combination.

The combination takes up the last 40 minutes of class.