Twice a year we close the regular schedule for an intensive — two weeks in summer for adults, four days in winter for working artists. Small. Mornings on the floor. Afternoons in conversation. No final showing.
Built for adult intermediate and advanced dancers — performers between contracts, returning practitioners, working artists. Mornings begin with technique with Naia, move through phrase work, and break for lunch. Afternoons rotate between Joren's score-based composition lab, repertory restaging, and somatic work. The intensive is taught entirely by faculty; there are no guest assistants.
9 — 11Naia · technique & floor warmup
11 — 1Joren · score lab introduction
2 — 4Eshe · weight-sharing fundamentals
9 — 11Naia · phrase set A
11 — 1Joren · listening practice
2 — 4Mira · floor work pathways
9 — 11Naia · partner phrase work
11 — 1Eshe · contact lifts & counterbalance
2 — 4Joren · duet score
9 — 11Naia · technique
11 — 1Naia · phrase set B
2 — 4Mira · long-form floor
9 — 11Faculty teaching round
11 — 1Open studio · structured practice
2 — 4Group reflection & reading
9 — 11Naia · technique
11 — 1Joren · solo composition
2 — 4Mira · audition prep
9 — 11Naia · technique
11 — 1Repertory restaging
2 — 4Repertory continued
9 — 11Naia · technique
11 — 1Joren · group score
2 — 4Group score continued
9 — 11Naia · technique
11 — 1Open practice
2 — 41:1 feedback sessions
9 — 11Faculty round
11 — 1Long-form group jam
2 — 4Closing circle & meal
Each January we host a four-day winter workshop for performing dance artists between contracts. The workshop is by-invitation and runs at half the size of the summer — eight dancers, three faculty in the room at once. The 2027 dates are January 13 – 16. Letters of interest open in late October.
Four days, eight artists, three faculty. Mornings are technique and improvisation. Afternoons are individual sessions on whatever the artist is working on — a piece in development, an audition, a question they have been carrying. There is no final showing. The point is the time itself.
10 — 12Naia · technique
1 — 3Joren · listening practice
3 — 51:1 intake sessions
10 — 12Naia · phrase work
1 — 3Joren · score generation
3 — 5Individual studio time
10 — 12Mira · floor work
1 — 31:1 work-in-progress feedback
3 — 5Group structured practice
10 — 12Faculty round
1 — 3Long-form group practice
3 — 5Closing dinner at studio
The summer intensive accepts sixteen dancers. The application is short — a paragraph about your training, what brings you to the work, and a video link if you have one. We respond within ten business days.
Apply for summer — Ask about winter