May 24/26: Avery Smith
Photos by Mika Manning
Class Description:
Working with efficiency and ease, we’ll begin by warming our bodies and attentions through improvisational tasks. Inside of set movement exercises, we’ll play with folding our joints and practice functional ways of moving in and out of the floor. Staying close to the floor, we will experiment with ways we can organize our bones to generate power and speed. As we work with isolating movements, I will encourage us to lean into sensation and listen to our body’s individual sequencing and rhythms. We’ll end class by dancing it out with a combination to some nice music. I hope for this class to be an opportunity to tune in while being together.
Avery Smith is a dance artist living and working on the unceded territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sel̓íl̓witulh Nations. She has danced in site specific and multimedia pieces for artists including Company 605, Compagnie Vision Impure, Emmalena Fredriksson, and others. Avery completed her professional training at Modus Operandi Training Program and has worked as an associate producer to Company 605. She is a recipient of EDAM Dance’s training scholarship and was a selected participant in The Banff Centre’s Creative Gesture Collective Composition Lab for Music and Dance. Avery has developed her own choreographies and has most recently presented work at Left of Push 2023 and The Happening’s Accelerate Showcase.