Group Dance & Community

Saturdays, April 13, 20, 27, and May 4, from 3 to 5 PM

$0-$60 for all 4 workshops, or $0-$20 per session

Taught by Joshua Swift

This class is open to individuals 18+.

Please email jtmswift@gmail.com with any questions.

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/tusVPZzhMyfHxHr96

Four improvisational dance workshops focused on developing resources for group movement through connection.
Open to all levels, including folks with no dance experience, & advanced dancers looking to improve improvisatory technique. These workshops are also open to all levels of ability.
Participants will cultivate their improvisational natural movement resources as individuals and group members by developing freedom, awareness, and control using the principles of Mettler-based creative dance.
Mettler-based creative dance prioritizes accessible movement and teaches ways to liberate and cultivate the natural movement resources of individuals and groups through developing freedom, awareness, and control in improvisational group dances.
Joshua Swift (they/them/all pronouns) is a disabled dance artist and teacher. They have 7 years of dance training in modern, contemporary, and improvisational dance techniques, including Mettler-based creative dance and place-based dance via the lineage of Anna Halprin. Recently, Joshua attended the AXIS Dance Summer Intensive in 2023 to study in the company of other disabled dancers.
Joshua is a member of the International Association for Creative Dance, and is currently participating in the Mettler-based Dance Educator certification program with an expected program completion of summer 2025. Joshua studied dance and psychology at Hampshire College and works in Northampton at a small nonprofit.

Please email jtmswift@gmail.com with any questions.