June 19/21/23: Lexi Vajda
Photo by Vanessa Tam
Class Description:
In this class we will warm our bodies from the inside out, awakening our senses, limbering our perception and relation to space. We will playfully explore the potential ways of inhabiting our bodies to find efficiency and dynamic range. We will work with our experience of the present moment, knowing that what we feel is everything we need.
Beginning with a structured improvisation to awaken our physical curiosities, we will progress through a set of simple exercises to more complex movement phrases. We will work with principles of release-based technique and floor work, slowly finding our feet with an emphasis on finding ease, functional movement mechanics and three-dimensional kinaesthetic awareness.
Lexi Vajda is a dance artist, teacher and aspiring social worker who has the privilege of living and working on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Lexi's current interests revolve around expanding notions of dance, improvisational score making, and the collision of diverse subjective experience into collective moments. As a dance educator, collaborative and anti-oppressive approaches ground her practice. She has worked with companies and choreographers such as Animals of Distinction, Shay Kuebler RSA, the response., Out Innerspace Dance theatre, Action at a Distance, Theatre Replacement, Company 605, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, plastic orchid factory, The Party, Delia Brett, Cindy Mochizuki, Tanz&Kunst Konigsfelden, Sasha Kleinplatz and Emmalena Frederiksson. Lexi was a recipient of the 2016 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for emerging artist in dance.