Contemporary Dance: The Essentials

Contemporary Dance: The Essentials

A Beginner Contemporary Dance Experience at Armentality Arts Center

Have you ever wanted to try contemporary dance, but thought you needed experience, flexibility, or a “dancer’s body” to begin?

You don’t.

Contemporary Dance: The Essentials is designed specifically for adults who are curious about dance, new to contemporary movement, or ready to return after time away.

At Armentality Arts Center, we believe learning to dance is about more than memorizing steps. It is about developing the tools to move with greater confidence, awareness, creativity, and freedom.

This weekly class brings together two essential sides of contemporary dance through an alternating rotation:

TECHNIQUE with
Build a strong foundation through alignment, coordination, floorwork, musicality, and accessible movement phrases. You’ll develop practical dance skills while becoming more comfortable and confident in your body.

IMPROVISATION with
Explore guided movement exercises that awaken creativity, instinct, musicality, and personal expression. There is no choreography to “get right.” Instead, you’ll discover new ways of moving and begin developing your own movement voice.

One week, you build the tools. The next, you discover what you can create with them.

Together, technique and improvisation offer an intelligent, approachable introduction to contemporary dance that builds both physical skill and creative confidence.

Is this class for me? - Absolutely, if you are:

• Completely new to contemporary dance
• An adult who has always wanted to dance but never started
• Returning to dance after years, or decades, away
• Looking for a creative way to move and challenge yourself
• Interested in developing confidence, coordination, musicality, and self-expression
  

No previous dance training is required.
No special flexibility is expected. And there is no such thing as needing the “right” body to dance.

Bring your curiosity. We’ll begin from there.

LEVEL
Absolute Beginner • Beginner • Returning to Dance

WHAT YOU’LL EXPLORE
Contemporary dance technique • Alignment • Floorwork • Coordination • Musicality • Guided improvisation • Creative expression

FORMAT
Kaylee Koslowske and Elisa Besteman teach on alternating weeks, allowing students to experience both foundational technique and creative movement exploration.

Discover what contemporary dance can feel like when the goal isn’t perfection; it’s learning, exploring, and finding more possibilities in the way you move.