In this workshop students will work with accomplished dancer, Alexandra Albrecht, to explore different textures, levels, styles, and tempos of movement and dance that will allow students to gain confidence in their ability to learn and generate material. Sometimes we will let music inform our movements and sometimes we will let our physical intuition be our guide. We’ll start with a warm-up that fires students’ spatial awareness and proprioception, and encourages them to trust in their bodies’ physical and creative instincts. We will do strengthening and stretching exercises, to make sure we have access to our fullest physicality when it comes time to build movement. Students will work individually and in small groups to to make movement compositions throughout the week that will culminate in a piece that will be presented to the community.

Alexandra Albrecht is a New York-based, Bessie-nominated performer working in dance and experimental performance. Career highlights include performances at The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Hall, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, The Chocolate Factory Theater, David Geffen Hall, The Playstation Theater, The Yard (Martha’s Vineyard), The Highline, Art Basel Miami and Hong Kong, ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival (Vienna) and Sophiensaele (Berlin). Alexandra has had the pleasure of collaborating on original works by Nick Mauss, Ryan McNamara, Jillian Peña, Sam Pinkleton and Ani Taj/The Dance Cartel, among others. She is currently in process with Hilary Easton, Stacy Grossfield and nicHi douglas. Alexandra is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches Movement Composition and Ballet in the Experimental Theatre Wing.