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    Body Shift Elements: Summer Dance Jam 1

    Town Lake YMCA 1100 W. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, United States

    The Elements class takes place every 2nd Saturday of the month from 2:30-4:30pm at the Town Lake YMCA in the large group exercise room on the first floor.

    $5 – $20
  • a man in a wheelchair holds hands with an able-bodied female dancer in a dance studio

    Body Shift Foundations Class

    McBeth Recreation Center 2401 Columbus Dr., Austin, TX, United States

    Foundations is a class for people of all unique mental and physical characteristics. Each class will explore ideas like developing body awareness, non-verbal communication, understanding of time/rhythm and choice making to support students in the discovery of their own movement language. Students will have the opportunity to awaken their creativity, notice habitual movement patterns in order to expand movement possibilities, and have a lot of fun in the process.

    $5 – $20
  • Dancers with and without disabilities

    Body Shift Elements: Summer Dance Jam 2

    Town Lake YMCA 1100 W. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, United States

    The Elements class takes place every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month from 2:30-4:30pm at the Town Lake YMCA in the large group exercise room on the first floor.

    $5 – $20

  • dancers with and without disabilities

    Body Shift Intensive: Dancing in Community with Karenne H. Koo

    Body Shift Intensive: Dancing in Community with Karenne H. Koo

    This workshop is designed to encourage movement expressions through improvisation techniques founded upon the free approach to dance and movement pioneered by Barbara Mettler. Participants will be guided through movement explorations to expand movement vocabulary; to sense and feel kinesthetically how his/her/their body moves; and how to bring in his/her/their whole self to the dance. Movement themes will celebrate the natural, authentic dancer within each person and serve to encourage a fully inclusive and participatory creative environment where each individual can contribute to the group experiences.

    $25
  • dancers with and without disabilities

    Body Shift Intensive: Dancing in Community with Karenne H. Koo

    Body Shift Intensive: Dancing in Community with Karenne H. Koo

    This workshop is designed to encourage movement expressions through improvisation techniques founded upon the free approach to dance and movement pioneered by Barbara Mettler. Participants will be guided through movement explorations to expand movement vocabulary; to sense and feel kinesthetically how his/her/their body moves; and how to bring in his/her/their whole self to the dance. Movement themes will celebrate the natural, authentic dancer within each person and serve to encourage a fully inclusive and participatory creative environment where each individual can contribute to the group experiences.

    $25

  • Tanya sitting in her chair on a dirt road and the chair has large orange fabric draped form the seat of it. Tanya is holding her crutches diagonally up towards the blue and white sky. The photo is taken in New Mexico and has desert landscape with small hill on it. Photo by Pat Perret

    Body Shift Winter Dance Jam

    Town Lake YMCA 1100 W. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, United States

    In place of our regularly scheduled Elements class we will have a Winter Dance Jam. We will start with a guided warm-up to lead us into open dancing with and without music.

    $5 – $20

  • DanceAbility Method: Lecture Demonstration

    Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Center at Texas State University 405 Moon St, San Marcos, Texas

    Lecture Demonstration:  "The DanceAbility Method: Creating a Social Model of Inclusivity Through the Language of Dance" Olivia O'Hare and the Body Shift Collective will present a lecture demonstration […]

    FREE

  • on display living sculpture

    On Display Global 2020

    On Display Global is a social justice initiative performed annually in honor of the UN's International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3. On Display is a […]

    FREE

  • dancers practice in a studio space.

    Arts + Culture Celebration

    Featured

    Join us on May 14 to celebrate the unveiling of “Common Waters: A Demonstration Project for the Butler Trail and Lady Bird Lake.” Dancers Veronica DeWitt, Tanya Winters, and […]

    FREE