Richmond Movement Center

HAPPY SUNDAY RMC FAM! 🌞 We’ve got more programming coming your way!

Join us for our CHOREOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE SERIES! Featuring SHANNON HUMMEL/CORA DANCE.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

SUNDAY, JULY 12
⭐️10:00-11:15AM
Contemporary Ballet Class with Cynthia Thompson

⭐️11:30AM-12:45PM
Hip Hop Class with Keon Washington

TUESDAY, JULY 14
⭐️6:30-7:45PM
Modern Class with Ammara Shafqat

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
⭐️6:30-7:45PM
Modern/Composition with Nikki Assanti

THURSDAY, JULY 16
⭐️7:30-8:30PM
Informal Showing of VESSEL
Choreography by Shannon Hummel in collaboration with performers Nikki Assanti, Taylor Black, Ammara Shafqat, Cynthia Thompson, and Keon Washington.
✨A talkback will follow the showing.

PAYMENT:
Our Choreographer In Residence Program offers Sliding-Scale and Pay-What-You-Can options. It’s our goal to offer professional dance to our community at affordable prices. If sliding-scale does not work for your budget, please let us know. In collaboration with Shannon Hummel/CORA Dance, no one will be turned away based on if you can or cannot pay.

OVERVIEW:
Full Program Fee: $100-$70
Drop-In Class Fee: $24
Informal Showing of Vessel: Pay-What-You-Can
$20-$15 Suggested Donation!

💰GET A PACKAGE, SAVE MONEY!:

Suggested Program Fee: $100
✨THAT MEANS YOU GET: 4 Classes and a Vessel informal showing ticket for $20each!

Sliding Scale Options:
$70 = $14/ 4 classes + showing ticket
$80 = $16/ 4 classes + showing ticket
$90 = $18/ 4 classes + showing ticket

Pat-What-You-Can Available!

More information and Pre-Register on our website!
🔗in bio! ❤️

As we approach our ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY…. We say goodbye to how our Saturday programming has traditionally functioned!

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY! 🥳🤩

🩰Ballet @ 10:00-11:15am with ZOE GRECO!
✨ Zoe has been a Resident Artist here at RMC for our opening season! She has helped us get open and moving, transferring her energy through this space and through the bodies of other dancers in our community. Her spirit, her teaching, her choreography and energy is why we got here to our ONE YEAR! Please join us for one last class of our OPENING SEASON with Zoe before she heads out for an amazing season working at JACOBS PILLOW! We are excited for her and blessed to be with her artistry.

✨ INTRODUCING✨The DOWN-HOME CHOREOGRAPHERS FEST! A local, bi-annual, choreographers festival that presents in February and July centered around a THEME!

THE LOVE SHOW was such a huge success… are you ready for THE DREAM SHOW!!??

Join us for THE DREAM SHOW this July! The idea of this series is to push for more choreography being made in Richmond! We understand that art making can sometimes get pushed to the back-burner if we don’t have a place or a prompt to get your creative juices flowing! So we wanted to create a show about DREAMS, where you can create a work around the topic— whatever that might look like or mean to you! Then we take a MONTH TO CREATE! Don’t think too much. Make choices. Learn to work creatively and collaboratively with other dancers. And put on a show! Maybe it’ll be terrible... or maybe it will be amazing!?! ...KIND OF LIKE DREAMS??? See what we’re going for here? A place to learn and grow together, nonetheless!

We will be taking about 10 choreographers for this first show! No need for videos, but please send in a blurb about yourself, your dance background, and why you’d like to be involved with this show!

We will also be holding an OPEN COMMUNITY AUDITION for dancers in the community that would like the opportunity to work with emerging choreographers in Richmond as well as have the opportunity to perform. This is a wonderful opportunity for choreographers to work with new dancers who are excited to move and expand your dance community!

☁️THE DREAM SHOW : Friday, July 10, 2026 @ 7:30pm
✍️CHOREOGRAPHER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday May 25, 2026
👯‍♀️OPEN COMMUNITY DANCER AUDITION: Sunday, May 31, 2026

APPLY AT THE LINK IN OUR BIO! 🔗☁️

FIRST FRIDAYS IS BACK THIS WEEK! Join us in an open contemporary modern class, and then stay to watch the students of Taylor Black perform! Richmond has incredible training… come support these amazing young dancers!

More student based work on the horizon… keep your eyes peeled!!

SEE YOU FRIDAY! 🤩

WE SAID THINGS ARE SHIFTING OVER HERE…. 🥳
UP NEXT!😎 Our POP-UP Program is changing!!

THE FLOOR IS OPEN for POP-UP Classes! We are excited to give the opportunity to more local and visiting dance artists to teach one-off classes of their choosing! These are open level classes on Tuesday evenings and Wednesday afternoons!

Want to apply to teach a POP-UP?! Fill out the questionnaire at the link in our bio! 🥰✨

As we approach our one-year anniversary of being open, we are excited to announce some programming changes! First up, our RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM!

🌟FOR TEACHERS:
We are seeking TWO dance artists to join us for our RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM! This is a six-month teaching program that rotates between 3 Resident Artists. You will have the opportunity to rotate teaching weekly classes, collaborate with your fellow Resident Artists on creating a new work together that culminates in an informal-showing, have an entire month to teach any class/genre you’d like, free rehearsal space up to 15hours, and the chance to produce your own show/present work during First Fridays! PAID GIG.

🌟FOR STUDENTS:
Monthly Programming. (4) pre-registered classes.
Pay-What-You-Can offerings or $80/month.
You will have the opportunity to dive into different class genres, deepen the connection, understanding, and artistry of your body, sharpen your performance technique, collaborate with other community dancers and choreographers, performance opportunities, and Pay-What-You-Can offerings.

✨TEACHERS & STUDENTS: Link in bio for more information on applications and registration! 🔗🥳

DM for questions! 🥰

MORE PROGRAMMING ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON….!!! 👀😁

WE DO IT ALL FOR JULIA. ⚔️🕊️

Join us this week for a little movement therapy.
We lost one of our own this fall. The grief and weight has been tremendous. She was, is, and always will be a force to be reckoned with. The truest light I’ve ever witnessed. To know her is to understand that we are all connected. Through lightness and darkness. Through movement and art and expressing. The amount of SHEER JOY Julia brought to every single person she met is something I will hold onto tightly for the rest of my days. So let’s BE MOVED by her together on Tuesday night. Bring yourself as you are. No dance experience required. Just a love for Julia and the desire to move your body (if you want) in community with her peers and loved ones. Tissues, smiles, hugs, and stories accepted and provided. Let’s show up for each other like Julia showed up for all of us.

🕊️⚔️JULIA PASQUALE FOREVER ⚔️🕊️

HAPPPPPY APRIL FAM! Let’s get MOVING this week! Join us for some classes if you’re on spring break! 🤩

We have some amazing classes and events lined up for you this week! Including FIRST FRIDAYS!! 🥳

POP-UP with JAYDEN JOY for CONTEMPORARY Tuesday night! …our Resident Artist program is making a big change beginning in June! So catch these drop-in pay-what-you-can POP-UP classes while they last!! 😮‍💨
There are about FIVE LEFT!!

FIRST FRIDAYS with COLIN JACOB!
⏰ 8:00pm
📍14 East Broad Street
Colin is a professional dancer with the Richmond Ballet and is finishing his Master’s thesis project! He will be presenting his work during FIRST FRIDAYS! There will be (for the first time at RMC!) a talk-back following the performance for Q&A with Colin and his dancers!
This is a free/pay-what-you-can event! Suggested donation $15. COLIN will be teaching a Contemporary class Saturday morning at 11:30am following his performance presentation! 🤩

📸 last 3 photos by Molly Huey

DM us for any questions! 🥰🫶🌸

HAPPY WEDNESDAY FAM!
Need weekend plans?! Let’s fill it with DANCE! 🤩😎

Saturday we’ve got THREE great classes happening!

⭐️9:00-10:00am:
Open Community class with CLAVES UNIDOS!

⭐️10:00-11:15am:
[Resident Artist] Ballet with ZOE GRECO

⭐️11:30am-1:00pm:
POP-UP Contemporary Modern with EMILY CARGILL

Then join us for DOGWOOD DAY OF DANCE at HARDYWOOD! Raffles for Pilates, yoga, art, VMFA membership, Richmond Ballet & VA Rep tickets… and more!! Plus you’ll get to see performances from local professional companies and artists!

SUPPORT LOCAL DANCERS THIS WEEKEND! 🌷🌞

Sign up for classes on our website! 🥳

THIS WEEK AT RMC! 🌸💗

POP-UP with EMILY CARGILL!

Emily Cargill is a choreographer, educator and dance artist based in Jacksonville, Florida. She is Artistic Director of Emily Cargill + Dancers, a professional contemporary dance company, and the Founder/Director of the Women Arts Exchange, an annual event that is an electrifying celebration where the worlds of women in visual art and contemporary dance collide in a bold, boundary-pushing artistic experience. She is on faculty within the dance department at Jacksonville University and has taught classes and engaged in residencies in universities all across the Southeast, including James Madison University, Washington and Lee University, Belmont College, Middle Tennessee State University and University of Florida!

Sign up on our website! 😍