Philly Dance Share

Natanya Apfelbaum is back with another beginner-friendly bellydance class on June 4!

🗓️ Thursday, June 4, 7-8:30PM
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)
📝 Description: Like water, your body wants to move! This will be an introduction to the ancient and sacred art of bellydancing. The ethos of this class is that bellydance is an awakening of the natural movements of the body, and flows from the anatomy of bones, muscles and breath. Bodies need motion and much contemporary dis-ease comes from stuckness in the body-mind. Bellydance is an incredible medicine for dispelling this stuckness ~ bringing both sensuous flow and percussive movement to wake up and break up places that have been held for too long.

This class will be oriented to those who love to dance but have had a difficult experience of body, knowing that the best way to dance more is to show up and dance with whatever ability you have today.

↗️ LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate.
💲 PAYMENT: Sliding scale $5, $10, $15, or $20; no one turned away for lack of funds.
😷 MASKS: Optional
💻 Register for class on our website, 🔗 in bio!

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Registration is live for the PDS 2026 Summer Intensive. Check out the schedule and offerings below. We are really pumped about this lineup of teachers and classes–sooo... you comin'??

🌀 SOMATICS OFFERINGS
• Franklin Method with Shannon Murphy
• Fascia Floss Flow with Loren Groenendaal
• Jellyfish with Nnennia Mazagwu

🕺 TECHNIQUE OFFERINGS
• Vogue Femme Elements with Rylee Locker
• Morning Moves with Arabia Richardson
• Soft Acrobatics & Floorwork with Alex Brazinski

🧠 CREATIVE PRACTICE OFFERINGS
• DRAMATURGING DANCE with Madeline Shuron
• Improvisation Performance Practice: Dancing Toward Scores with Curt Haworth

Full class descriptions: https://www.phillydanceshare.com/summer-intensive-2026
(You can register there too 😉)
July 13-17, 2026
9AM-3PM
$250-$400, sliding scale

Thank you for class on Thursday May 14th, Natanya!! What a fabulous offering of 'Healing Bellydance'! Every Thursday evening we have DIFFERENT folks from the community teaching different types of one-off dance classes. This week: Pheobe Ricker teaching 'Rubber Bands, Strings, and Springs'.

More info and registration at our website: https://buff.ly/dKZQ8KO

🗓️ Save the Date!!!

PDS Summer Intensive 2026
July 13-17
@ Mascher Space!

Teacher announcements + more info coming very soooooon, stay tuned!!

Pic of: Lillian Mae Ransijn
Taken by: Shosh Isaacs

We had SUCH a blast partnering with Bates Dance Festival in March. Here are some beautiful pictures to commemorate a weekend full of rigorous dancing and community building!!

📸 Shosh Isaacs

Join us for repetition and reversal with Pheobe Ricker on May 28!

🗓️ Thursday, May 28, 7-8:30PM
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)
📝 Description: In this class, we will play with ideas of energy storage and release, repetition and reversal, winding and unwinding-- thinking of our bodies as rubber bands, strings, or springs. We will increase awareness of the paths our bodies are taking through time and space and follow these threads back and forth by breaking choreography into symmetrical "halves". This class will offer both a mental and physical challenge to dancers across a wide range of abilities as we reframe how to intuitively process timing, direction, and transitions.

↗️ LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate.
💲 PAYMENT: Sliding scale $5, $10, $15, or $20; no one turned away for lack of funds.
😷 MASKS: Optional
💻 Register for class on our website, 🔗 in bio!

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Get back to the basics with Tessa Meehan on May 21!

🗓️ Thursday, May 21, 7-8:30PM
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)
📝 Description: We’re bringing it back to your 2012 turns and progressions class. Think jazz class across the floor realness. We’ll start with a guided warmup to wake up and engage our muscles and joints and transition into across-the-floor work, focusing on jazz technique foundations including turns, progressions, jumps, and dynamic traveling phrases.

Dancers can expect a mix of drills and combinations designed to build stability and power behind our fundamentals. This class is about refining technique while reconnecting with the joy of dancing by tapping into that nostalgic, high-energy feeling that made you fall in love with jazz in the first place. Come ready to move, groove, and leave with combinations that feel just as fun as they are challenging.

↗️ LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate.
💲 PAYMENT: Sliding scale $5, $10, $15, or $20; no one turned away for lack of funds.
😷 MASKS: Optional
💻 Register for class on our website, 🔗 in bio!

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Join us for a beginner-friendly bellydance class with Natanya Apfelbaum on May 14!

🗓️ Thursday, May 14, 7-8:30PM
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)
📝 Description: Like water, your body wants to move! This will be an introduction to the ancient and sacred art of bellydancing. The ethos of this class is that bellydance is an awakening of the natural movements of the body, and flows from the anatomy of bones, muscles and breath. Bodies need motion and much contemporary dis-ease comes from stuckness in the body-mind. Bellydance is an incredible medicine for dispelling this stuckness ~ bringing both sensuous flow and percussive movement to wake up and break up places that have been held for too long.

This class will be oriented to those who love to dance but have had a difficult experience of body, knowing that the best way to dance more is to show up and dance with whatever ability you have today.

↗️ LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate.
💲 PAYMENT: Sliding scale $5, $10, $15, or $20; no one turned away for lack of funds.
😷 MASKS: Optional
💻 Register for class on our website, 🔗 in bio!

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New Series starting this week with Sarah-Jane El Kassmi (). Let's get our of our heads, and into our bodies!

⭐ Out of Your Head, Into Your Body with Sarah-Jane El Kassmi
🗓️ Tuesday nights, 7-8:30PM (May 5, 12, 19, 26, 31 and June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
📍 Mascher Space (1170 S Broad St)

🟠 DESCRIPTION: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.

🌀 Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically.

🤸Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.

↗️ LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate. This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy!
💲 PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds
💻 Register for class on our website, 🔗 in bio!
😷 MASKING: Masks are optional, but welcome.

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