Group Dance and Community, with Joshua Swift

Saturdays in July: 5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th, all from 3 - 5 PM

Cost: $5-$20 per workshop, or $25-$80, sliding scale, for the series. NOTAFLOF.

This class is open to individuals 18+.

Register at tinyurl.com/julygroupdance

Four drop-in improvisational dance workshops focused on developing resources for group movement through connection. In these workshops, participants will develop resources for group movement through connection with themselves and others.

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/any 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 from Terre Parker via the lineage of Anna Halprin. Recently, Joshua performed with Abilities Dance Boston and attended the AXIS Dance Summer Intensive in 2023 to study in the company of other disabled dancers and to learn more about integrated dance.

This program is supported by the Hadley and South Hadley Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Cost: $5-$20 per workshop, or $25-$80, sliding scale, for the series. NOTAFLOF.

Funds will be used for space rental for future classes and artist support.

This class is open to individuals 18+.

Register at tinyurl.com/julygroupdance.