Freeskewl

‼️ Class with Wally Cardona ‼️

This Saturday - 3/16
12:30-2:30pm

(310 Atlantic Ave BK, NY)
💵$14*

*NOTAFLOF — dm us if you need a discounted class rate!

Wally Cardona is a choreographer, dancer, and educator. His choreographic works include Son of Gone GIVEN, GIVEN on a Sunday and GIVEN in the Blackbox; The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show, a 7-part dance made over the course of six years with dance artists Jennifer Lacey, I Nyoman Catra (Bali), Proueng Chhieng (Cambodia), Junko Fisher (Okinawa), Saya Lei (Myanmar), Jean-Christophe Paré (Paris), Heni Winahyuningsih (Java), Kapila Venu (India) and composers Jonathan Bepler, Reiko Fueting, and Megan Schubert; TOOL IS LOOT, resulting from games of aesthetic disorientation, made with Lacey and Bepler; Interventions 1-7, encounters between Cardona and the requests and opinions of a sommelier, astrophysicist, architect, social activist, among others; Movements within Stream, an outdoor mini-myth; Really Real, a “people piece” for 100 individuals, including the Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Revival, performed by 30 dancers in the abandoned balcony of the old Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia; and A Light Conversation, a physical dialogue on aesthetics vs. ethics, love, commitment and sacrifice, made with choreographer Rahel Vonmoos. Cardona has taught at colleges, universities and festivals throughout the world. As a performer, he has appeared in works by David Gordon and Deborah Hay and in Matthew Barney’s film, Secondary. Cardona was honored with a Bessie Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, and Doris Duke Artist Award. Born in West Covina, California and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

TOMORROW!!!
Class with
11:00am-1:00pm

182 4th Ave BK, NY

$14 + NOTAFLOF (dm us if you need a discounted class rate!)

Ori Flomin started performing in his parents living room in his homeland, Israel, before landing in NYC, where he has been dancing, living, surviving, and thriving since 1989. He holds an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. His choreography has been presented at NYC venues such as: Gibney, Dance Theater Workshop, LaMama Experimental Theater, Arts on Site, Movement Research at Judson Church, and internationally in Europe, Israel, Japan, and Australia as well as commissioned work for dance companies and universities across the US (Zenon Dance, LINK dance, Purchase University). His teachings of dance, Yoga and Shiatsu massage have taken him around the globe to prestigious international festivals, schools, and colleges around NYC: PARTS, Impulstanz, London Contemporary School, Sasha Waltz, Circuit Est, SUNY Purchase, NYU, Movement Research and Gibney to name a few. He’s performed in the works of acclaimed choreographers Stephen Petronio, Maria Hassabi, Neil Greenberg, Molissa Fenley and Kevin Wynn among others. Since Covid-19 he has presented dance films through online platforms and film festivals and developed his Do-It-yourself Shiatsu practice to help participants find healing through self-massage during stressful times. He is a 2022-23 recipient of the Gibney Dance in Process (DIP) Residency. www.Oriflomin.com

Photo by Yasmeen Enahora

TOMORROW!!!
Class with
12:30-2:30pm

$14 + NOTAFLOF (dm us if you need a discounted class rate!)

You probably already know about this winner, choreographer dancer extraordinaire but if you don’t - read on about Keerati and come experience her class!!

Keerati Jinakunwiphat, originally from Chicago, IL., received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase and was a recipient of the Adopt-A- Dancer Scholarship. She has additionally studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Danse Montreal. She has worked with and performed works of artists such as Kyle Abraham, Nicole von Arx, Trisha Brown, Jasmine Ellis, Hannah Garner, Shannon Gillen, Andrea Miller, Paul Singh, Kevin Wynn, and Doug Varone. Keerati began working with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham in 2016. She has additionally assisted Kyle Abraham in new commissioned work for New York City Ballet and Paul Taylor Dance Company. As a freelance choreographer, Keerati has presented her own choreographic works at the American Dance Guild Festival, Battery Dance Festival, Dance Gallery Festival, the Joyce Theater, New Victory Theater, MASS MoCA, Lincoln Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim and more. She has been commissioned to set and create works on the Evanston Dance Ensemble, the Martha Graham School, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, New England Ballet Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Bang On A Can, Princeton University, PARA.MAR Dance Theatre, Whim W’him Seattle Contemporary Dance, New York Choreographic Institute, and Rutgers University. Keerati has graced the cover as one of Dance Magazine’s ‘25 to Watch’ in 2021. In 2023, she had the honor of becoming the first Asian American woman to be commissioned to choreograph for the New York City Ballet. Additionally, Keerati has been awarded with the Jadin Wong Fellowship Artist of Exceptional Merit by the Asian American Arts Alliance and is a 2023 Princess Grace Award winner in choreography.

📸 Alexander Diaz

Join us for ✏️STUDY HALL✏️ with skewl tomorrow, Tuesday 3/5!!

🗓️This Tuesday - 3/5
🕕11:00am-1:00pm
📍
(182 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
💵$14*

Come to dance, explore, research, organize, or rest!
Come with questions for skewl or discussion topics!
Come to meet your fellow classmates more personally!
Come with choreography you want feedback on or a group score you are curious about!
COME FOR COMMUNITY! ❤️

PROCESS with Ogemdi Ude

🗓️This Tuesday - 2/27
🕕11:00am-1:00pm
📍
(182 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
💵$14*

*Spots are filling up fast! Sign up though the 🔗 in bio. email or DM us for $5 spot if you need!*

About Ogemdi:
Ogemdi Ude is a Nigerian-American dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at Gibney, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, La Mama Courthouse, and for BAM’s DanceAfrica festival. As an educator, she serves as Head of Movement for Theater at Professional Performing Arts School and has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, MIT, and University of the Arts. She is a 2022-2023 Smack Mellon Artist-in-Residence and 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She has been a 2021 danceWEB Scholar, 2021 Laundromat Project Create Change Artist-in-Residence, and a 2019-2020 Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Resident Fellow. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English, Dance, and Theater from Princeton University.

About the class:
This class is a playful and provocative step into my recurring dance nightmare: I am put onstage with a dance company in front of hundreds of people, and everyone except me knows the choreography. We will draw from that fear and learn how to use forgetting to our advantage. I will introduce improvised scores and memory games and choreographic tools that ask us to make something out of our disjointed memories. We will also employ weight, tension, rebound, speed, and rigor. We will make complex choreographies from empty beginnings. We will find new ways to be brave in a scary field.

WE CAN’T WAIT TO DANCE WITH YOU!
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3 Class Series with mayfield brooks
starts this Saturday 2/24!

2/24 Sat 11:15-12:30
2/29 Thurs 3:00-6:30 @ Rockaway Beach 108th
3/2 Sat 12:30-2:30

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Feb 24 is a DONATION BASED pay what you can class
Feb 29 is a field trip to Rockaway Beach
March 2 is $14 but DM us for $5 slots if you need!

This three part class series is an invitation to decompose like the whale fall—a whale’s decomposition after it dies and falls to the ocean floor. How can practices of decomposing, falling, and surrendering to currents & tides fuel more opportunities to ride the waves of spontaneous movement creation? What is my body’s shoreline like? How can different ecologies of cellular integration emerge through voice, sound and movement? What does surrendering to a moment, an impulse, an interspecies relation, a resistance practice, or transgression look like? As part of this class series, there will be a field trip to Rockaway Beach on February 29th for Black History Month and reparations. How can I create dance offerings of solidarity to other shorelines? How can I dance for Palestinian Liberation, liberation struggles in Africa and throughout the world? How can I locate my body’s shoreline?

You’re welcome to drop into each of these classes but encouraged to sign up for all 3.

🔗 in bio for more info + to sign up!

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DONATION CLASS with Christina Robson!!

This Saturday - 2/24
12:30-2:30pm

(Ground floor studio)

Pay what you can!!! All proceeds go back into skewl to help us pay teachers, rent space and keep offering affordable classes in NYC.

🔗 in bio to sign up! 💕

About the legendary Christina: Christina Robson is a performer and educator who flirts with choreography. She has performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, Sean Curran Company, Monica Bill Barnes & Co, Alexandra Beller, Lisa Race and Third Rail Company and has decade long collaborative tenures with Heidi Henderson, and Kendra Portier. Christina has an MFA from University of Maryland and started teaching full time at George Mason University in 2022.

CLASS CARDS ⚡️ FLASH SALE
on sale for one week only!
today - midnight 2/24!!

5 class card - $60
10 class card - $112

Promised you even more ways to take affordable class! But seriously don’t miss out. Class cards are only available to purchase starting now through 2/24. Limited time offer so jump on it! You can use your class card for any of the classes in our spring programming. Once you’ve purchased just email us the classes you’d like to take!

🔗 in bio to purchase

🔥WE’RE BACK🔥

skewl’s spring line-up
new class times + new days
Tuesdays 11-1
Saturdays 12:30-2:30
$14 No one turned away for lack of funds!
Sign up in our website, link in bio.

Plus! Kicking it off with 2 Donation classes! And stay tuned for more affordable ways to take classes!

We can’t wait to dance with you!!!

SPECIAL SKEWL CLASS!

FORMS with Kendra Portier
🗓️12.2 Saturday
🕕10am -12pm
📍NY Center for Creativity & Dance (Joyce East)
💵 DONATION*
*pay what you can + donate to help keep skewl’s funding low-cost and affordable!
all proceeds will go to skewl to help pay teachers, rent space, and ensure we can keep offering affordable classes in NYC.

*you will be emailed a donation link upon registration

Class Description: Let’s gather. We will move in kinship with the dynamic forces between what we call past and future, known and unknown, collective and individual. A constellation of improvisation, visceral imageries, puzzle-patterns, heat-building sequences, “1990s,” and even a phrase will guide our time together. It’ll be a relational practice, filled with constantly moving and regenerating energies, where attuning to the sensations of movement can bring a sense of contemporaneity, belonging, majesty, and/or possibility… and feel really freakin’ good.

Kendra Portier is a dance artist - a choreographer, educator, and performer. Born at home in Ohio, she has taught and performed across the world, cultivating a distinctive teaching practice and collaborating in projects with artists such as David Dorfman Dance, Jasmine Hearn, The March! team, and BANDportier, among others. She is on faculty at the University of Maryland, where she was awarded the Maya Brin Professorship in Dance. kendraportier.com

Monday’s Class!!!! IMP LOCATION CHANGE!

FORMS with Anna Sperber
🗓️11.27 Monday
🕕10am -12pm
📍Dancewave
💵$14*

*Spots are filling up fast! Sign up though the 🔗 in bio. email or DM us for $5 spot if you need!*

Anna Sperber is a choreographer and performer based in Brooklyn where she was born and raised. Her work has been described by The New York Times as “immediately compelling” and “wonderfully strange” with “moments of theatrical magic.” Her performances are rooted in the poetic potency of choreography and its potential for perceptual transformation, embodying a tension between formality and chaotic wildness. Sperber received a 2022 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award for Outstanding Choreographer / Creator. Her work has been commissioned by venues including The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater UNLEASHED, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Roulette, Gibney Dance, and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, as well as by the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. Sperber has received fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Bogliasco, Marble House Project, The Yard, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance DiP (Dance in Process), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Movement Research. Sperber has collaborated extensively with esteemed composers as well as visual designers in New York City. These interdisciplinary collaborations are crucial to the integration of visual and sonic landscapes with the moving body in her work. Sperber was a co-founder of classclassclass, and has taught at American Dance Festival, Movement Research, Freeskewl, Gibney Dance, Hunter College, George Washington University, and Wayne State University. Sperber founded and ran BRAZIL, a studio and intimate performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn 2004-2014 and Sunset Space 2019-20

WE CAN’T WAIT TO DANCE WITH YOU!
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