Contemporary
Profitraining
with
Sarah Butler
Working the layering of various physical tasks through curiosity, rich imagery, and sense of humor, this class will serve as an opportunity to dig into our approach to both improvised movement and choreography.
We will begin with a guided improvisation session to activate, strengthen, and stretch the body as well as wake up our sensations and creative impulses. In this portion we will focus on shift of weight, awareness and presence in movement, change of texture and story, and how we approach carrying the body through space. We will play with a bit of ballet form from new angles, recognizing the inherent intelligence of our bodies while welcoming the letting go of limiting criticisms from old personal narratives. We then move into the second portion of the class, where we will learn an original choreographed phrase, exploring how we can take the discoveries from our movement research and house them inside a specific form. We will play with shift of weight, isolations, musicality, imagination, and how our personal approach can amplify and improve the material while maintaining the integrity of the choreography.
It's gonna be a good time and I can’t wait to see you there!
We will begin with a guided improvisation session to activate, strengthen, and stretch the body as well as wake up our sensations and creative impulses. In this portion we will focus on shift of weight, awareness and presence in movement, change of texture and story, and how we approach carrying the body through space. We will play with a bit of ballet form from new angles, recognizing the inherent intelligence of our bodies while welcoming the letting go of limiting criticisms from old personal narratives. We then move into the second portion of the class, where we will learn an original choreographed phrase, exploring how we can take the discoveries from our movement research and house them inside a specific form. We will play with shift of weight, isolations, musicality, imagination, and how our personal approach can amplify and improve the material while maintaining the integrity of the choreography.
It's gonna be a good time and I can’t wait to see you there!
Sarah Butler
Sarah Butler likes making things. Working with movement, embroidery, poetry, film, wearable structure, and vocal harmonies, she is interested in exploring how the weaving of seemingly separate mediums can result in something surprising and honest.Sarah trained primarily in classical ballet growing up, and graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA with a BFA in Dance in 2012. She was a founding member of Danielle Agami’s Ate9 Dance Company in Los Angeles from 2012 – 2020. Since 2018, Sarah has worked closely with Tom Weinberger, assisting on the creation of dance-theatre works in and around Europe. She has been a guest teacher with Iceland Dance Company, Nagelhus Schia Productions, Cornish College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, John Hopkins University, and Ryan Heffington’s The Sweat Spot, among others. Sarah relocated to Berlin from the States in early 2023 and is happy to be here. (www.kickinbutler.com)