Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its schedule of August classes and workshops for adults, beginning on August 11 at Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10013. Visit https://amandaselwyndancestudio.org/classes-workshops/ for more information and to register.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio offers “Choose Your Rate” Open Studio Classes in a variety of dance styles and techniques. These classes are designed for adults of all experience levels, fostering an inclusive environment to build skills, connection, and the joy of dance.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio will also be running the Teaching Artist Workshop Series from August through October. These workshops provide an immersive training in global dance traditions, choreography, and artistic process focused on fostering cultural exchange, preserving traditional movement forms, and expanding access to dance education. The Teaching Artist Workshop Series is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts – Community Projects program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at: www.midatlanticarts.org

Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio presents a variety of Special Events throughout the year, including company performances, receptions, workshops, cultivation events, networking gatherings, panel discussions, lectures, and immersive experiences. These engaging and inclusive offerings are suited for all levels of dance experience and welcome participation from community members of all backgrounds.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio

August Summer Classes

Crosstraining

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Thursday, August 13 from 10-11 a.m.

Instructor: Manon Hallay

Thursday, August 27 from 10-11 a.m.

Instructor: Madeline Kuhlke

Level: All

Price: Choose your rate, $10-25

A dynamic fusion of HIIT, Pilates, cardio, and barre designed specifically for professional dancers, providing targeted cross-training to build strength and promote career longevity.

Contemporary Modern

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Tuesday, August 18 from 11-12:30 p.m.

Instructor: Ashley McQueen

Level: Experienced pre-professional and professional dancers

Price: Choose your rate, $10-25

A fusion of Horton and Graham technique with contemporary styles and creative exploration.

Teaching Artist Workshop

Collaborative Dance Composition Toolkit with Amanda Selwyn

Tuesday, August 11 from 12-3 p.m. | Level: All | Price: $75, $50 for professional dancers and teachers

Amanda Selwyn’s Collaborative Dance Toolkit Workshop will focus on two components of dance creation – phrase making and dance structures. First, Selwyn will guide participants through a series of functional exercises for creating focused and dynamic phrase work — prompting efficient and clear choice making and specificity of space, time, and energy. These solo, partner, and group activities will harvest a collective movement vocabulary. The second half of the workshop will focus on working with the vocabulary to compose cohesive and resonant choreographic structures. We will experiment with spatial design, pattern, repetition, pathways, direction, dynamics, speed, order, and groupings. This workshop is for dancers, choreographers, and teaching artists of all levels interested in expanding and freeing up their creative process.

The Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre creates dynamic dance theatre that activates emotional expression. Through an interplay of athletic and articulate motion, they present theatrical and immediate works that engage audiences from start to finish and beckon a response of thought, feeling, and soul.

Amanda Selwyn founded Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre/Notes in Motion in 2000 and in 27 seasons, has directed over 275 productions, developed a network of artists, and created Notes in Motion’s dance education program. Amanda’s choreographic works include: Exposed, Awaken, Habit Formed, Threads, Hindsight, Crossroads, Refuge, Renewal, It’s a Game, Detour, Five Minutes, Passage, Undercurrent, Hearsay, Interiors, Disturbance, Salut, Tilt, Tidal, Shift, Siren,Contradicting Unity, Save My Spot, Hold On, Momentum, and Behind Us. Her work has been presented twice on Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Stage, twice by the CUNY Dance Initiative at Tribeca Performing Arts Center and Baruch Performing Arts Center, in the American Dance Guild Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival, APAP Conference, COOL NY Dance Festival, Wassaic Dance Festival, WestFest Dance Festival, Movement Research’s Performance Series, Earth Celebrations, Dixon Place, and Pushing Progress at Peridance. Amanda has taught workshops and residencies at Peridance, Hofstra University, Bucknell University, Temple University, New York University, New Women, New York, the New York Gender Conference, Baruch University, SUNY New Paltz, Borough of Manhattan Community College, the Arts in Education Roundtable’s Face to Face Conference, Dance Teacher Summit, Women and Theater Conference, and more. In addition to her choreographic work, Amanda has directed Off-Broadway theatre in NYC at John Houseman Studio, 30th Street Theatre, Grove Street Theatre, Kraine Theatre, Center Stage, and the Producer’s Club. Amanda has been on faculty at The Brearley School, Brooklyn Friends School, Beit Rabban School, Solomon Schechter School, the New Acting Company, the Berkshire Institute for Music and Art, and the Israel Museum. She is the recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Harkness Foundation, Hyde and Watson Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Friars Foundation, Dizzy Feet Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, O’Donnell Green Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Laura B. Vogler Foundation, MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Fund, NY City Council Members, and Manhattan Borough President. Amanda participated in the Choreographer’s Lab program at Jacob’s Pillow. She has a 500-hour yoga teacher’s certification from Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in NYC and teaches yoga privately and at Crunch Gym in NYC. She has a Master’s from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in performance studies and a B.S. from Northwestern University in theatre, women’s studies, and dance.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre/Notes in Motion programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The company is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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