WORKSHOP: Open Contemporary Movements and Improvisations with Olivia Emert

INTERFLOW is an open level movement class that is designed to experience movement deeper through memory and sensation.
About this Event

INTERFLOW: Open Contemporary Movements and Improvisations

Taught by Olivia Emert

COST: Free!

WHEN: Sunday October 25, 10:00am - 11:15am

WHERE: Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement

Class Description: INTERFLOW is an open level movement class that is designed to experience movement deeper through memory and sensation. We begin with a guided meditation and body scan to lead us into an improvisational warm up. We then use memory, visualization, and task based prompts to explore our bodies in our own movement language. In our visualizations, we dive into emotions, imagery, environments and more. Any skill level is encouraged! This class is open to all and adaptations are encouraged. In INTERFLOW, everyone is welcome and encouraged to take agency in the room and make choices that will support them in their movement.

About Olivia Emert: Olivia Emert is a Kansas City based choreographer and artistic director. Emert graduated from the Conservatory of University of Missouri Kansas City with her BFA in Performance and Choreography. Emert’s choreographic work focuses on emotional awareness, tactile partner work, and building tangible environments. Emert’s choreography has been commissioned by Lindenwood University, Creative Intersections with Owen/Cox Dance Group, Kansas City Ballet, Art in the Loop, KCPublic Theater, City in Motion Dance Theater, NoDivide, Charlotte Street, and more. Founded in 2024, Emert hosts FLOW, a professional movement class highlighting somatic awareness, release-based floorwork, and contemporary phrase work. In 2025, Emert took over the role as artistic director of Creative Intersections after choreographing for the program for three years. After being awarded a two year residency with Charlotte Street Foundation, Emert founded CLOUDS Dance Company: a project based dance company composed of performances, collaborations, and training spaces, all which seek to offer connection and kinesthetic experience. Established in 2025, CLOUDS has presented Emert’s choreography at Iowa Dance Festival (Iowa City), 26th Annual Dance in the Park (MO), MADCO Dance Festival (St. Louis, MO), Queer Narratives Festival, and Kurve Ball Choreographer’s Festival.