Philly Dance Share

PDS Summer Intensive 2026 featuring Creative Practice class with Madeline Shuron, Mon July 13 & Tue July 14, 1-3pm.

🧠 FULL DESCRIPTION:
DRAMATURGING DANCE w/ Madeline is an experience in integrating postmodern dramaturgy practices into our dance making! We'll write, move, think, talk, read, breathe, and make together. Students will come out of the experience having made one short vignette with a narrative or non-narrative arc, as well as having dramaturged another's work. Madeline () will facilitate participants to think bigly, boldly, and in many different shapes and containers!

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Register for the PDS Summer Intensive online at https://buff.ly/LJtrs3U
July 13-17, 2026
9AM-3PM
Mascher Space, PHL
$250-$400, sliding scale

PDS Summer Intensive 2026 featuring Creative Practice class with Curt Haworth, Wed July 15-Fri July 17, 1-3pm.

🧠 FULL DESCRIPTION:
Improvisation Performance Practice w/ Curt

Steeped in experiential research, this improvisation dance workshop will explore modes of moving, making and performing alongside somatic practices and Contact Improvisation. Participants will collaborate together in real time developing work with the entire class as well as creating in small groups or alone to develop more intimate compositions. Together we will explore and make structures and scores for performance. Participants will work as both directors and performers, leading at times and at others time being part of the union.

Each session focuses on three basic objectives to reach this goal. The first is solo investigation to encourage risk taking in order to broaden movement choices, style, and theatrical motivation and to instill the ability to perform in the moment. The second is Contact Improvisation, to heighten awareness of oneself in space among other dancers and expand movement choices vis-à-vis another dancer. The third section is focused on ensemble dancing to hone new skills while perceiving the stage and what is unfolding, creating a collaborative approach within groups of dancers making choices in real time.

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Register for the PDS Summer Intensive online at phillydanceshare.com!
July 13-17, 2026
9AM-3PM
Mascher Space, PHL
$250-$400, sliding scale

Our lineup of summer intensive teachers is, we're just gonna say it, STACKED. Look at all these gems! Over the next few days we'll be posting individually about each teacher so you can get a better idea of all their offerings. You can also visit our website directly (phillydanceshare.com) to read all class descriptions now (plus register for the intensive!)

July 13-17, 2026
9AM-3PM
Mascher Space, PHL
$250-$400, sliding scale

🌀 SOMATICS OFFERINGS
• Mapping Breath: A Franklin Method & Movement Exploration 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 ()

Join us for Beginner Hip Hop Vibes with Ni on June 24!

🗓️ Thursday, June 25, 7-8:30PM
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)
🎉 Description: This class is for anyone ready to step in, vibe out, and learn the basics of hip-hop in a fun and supportive environment. We’ll focus on groove, confidence, and performance while keeping the energy high. No pressure—just good music, good vibes, and a great workout.

ADULT BEG HH with Niaya IS BACK! No experience needed! Just vibes, sweat & good time ! 🥳 It’s ALWAYS a party over here.

↗️ LEVEL: Beginner
💲 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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Find the Upside Down with GC Harper on May 18!

🗓️ Thursday, May 18
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)

️🌀 Description: Inversions, handstands, cartwheels, bear crawls and more... upside down! This class is a workshop full of tools aimed at increasing comfort and control while upside down. Through a contemporary lens we will begin with strengthening exercises catered to taking weight on the hands, wrists, and shoulders. We will talk about fluid transitions and control to safely move in, out and through multiple types of inversions. There will be space to increase and decrease the intensity if desired. Come take a risk, play, experiment, and have fun upside down!

↗️ LEVEL: Intermediate. Participants should have basic comfort with being upside down and taking weight on the hands and shoulders (think short planks, push-ups, downward dog)
MASKS: Optional
ADDITIONAL INFO: Knee pads will be helpful, modifications will always be given when asked!

💲 Sliding scale $5, $10, $15, or $20; no one turned away for lack of funds.
💻 Register for class on our website, 🔗 in bio!

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Kicking off summer with even more dancing!! See you in the studio in June ☀️ 🤸‍♀️ 🪩

This is the last month to take class with our series teachers: Ben Capp, Sarah-Jane El Kassmi, and Kalila Kingsford Smith! Thursday classes will be led by a rotating group of teachers sharing different movement practices!

Register for class in advance at phillydanceshare.com!

In June, CJ Abeshaus will teach a fun-filled, funky jazz/contemporary class to early 2000s music! Let's escape together...

🗓️ Thursday, June 11, 7-8:30PM
📍 & Space (1021 Hamilton Street #302)
📝 Description: Gosh I love it when we all move in-synch to early 2000s music! Class will start with a brief warm up to get us comfortable with funky shapes, facial expressions, and precise timing. We'll do some improv exercises across the floor to get into character and spend the bulk of class learning jazz/contemporary choreography to Gwen Stafani's The Sweet Escape!

↗️ LEVEL: Intermediate (We'll be moving quickly through choreography, but all levels of experience are welcome to come party with us! )
💲 PAYMENT: Sliding scale $5, $10, $15, or $20; no one turned away for lack of funds.
😷 MASKS: Optional
💻 Register for class here: https://www.phillydanceshare.com/class-schedule/contemp-2000s

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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