Shannon Stewart has been teaching open community classes for 15 years in the various places she's been privileged to call home - New Orleans, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. Her background ranges from ballet to breakdancing but her home is in teaching contemporary, modern and improvisation. She sees community dance classes as a church-like space for expression, healthy challenges, and shared joy. Her lineage is in release technique and post modern improvisation and she's shaped by social justice activism, a love for creating class playlists, and finding physical rigor that creates space for collaboration and growth.
Contemporary Forms and Flow (untethered technique). Class starts with simple warm up exercises articulating the spine, tuning into sensations, and going in and out of the floor. We will then combine more complex material, engaging the imagination, working with endurance, focus, and flowing between form and open improvisation, eventually finding a ourselves in shared choreography (aka dance phrase) and covered in sweat.