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Greetings Dance Community,
Fall is here, and I’m looking forward to several dance shows/workshops/classes this month. Let’s create our sanctuaries together, through dance and through community.
Amanda
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November Dance Happenings
One Night Only! November 7th, 7:30 pm, di Mossa presents Inside Voices An evening inspired by the constant internal and external messages we deal with everyday. Sometimes the answer is to move! Join us and special guests Matthew Robinson and Amanda Howard. It’s going to be a low stress, fun Friday night with refreshments and surprises. Pay what you can at the door or by Venmo @Lisa_diMossa Suggested donation $20 You will want to be a part of the first audience in the new Metro Dance studios at Morgan Recreational Center! Come see our new home at
411 Hume Street 32708. There is plenty of free street parking – and great restaurants in this Germantown neighborhood.
Friday Night Frolic with Amanda Cantrell Roche at Art & Soul Studio, November 14. This movement improv workshop is open to dancers and is designed to be accessible to movers who have no formal dance training. Bring a friend with whom you’ve always wanted to share the magic of moving in community, or just come on your own and PLAY and move freely. November’s focus is on Rewilding, and will include projected nature footage from the film that accompanied the Rewilding performance at Kindling. 6-7:30 pm, $20. Register here.
GUTS – an otherworldly dance theater work. MauveTaupe premieres their first evening length work GUTS. This multimedia performance displays radical set design, a cutting edge underground soundtrack, and dynamic physicality. The characters demonstrate resilience and grit to process themes of grief, heartbreak, and identity. The Darkhorse Theater November 21st and 22nd @ 7:30PM Link for tickets and more info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guts-presented-by-mauvetaupe-tickets-1680079405729?aff=oddtdtcreator
Community Dance Night – November 22nd at DancEast
Join us for an evening of rhythm, movement, and community. On Saturday, November 22nd, DancEast will host our Community Dance Night, a celebration of our amazing adult dancers and our vibrant local dance community. Enjoy performances from several of our adult classes and special guests in a fun, relaxed, and supportive atmosphere. Details:
Doors open: 6:30 PM
Show begins: 7:00 PM
$5 suggested donation
BYOB
Parking validation available inside the studio. Whether you’re performing or cheering from the audience, come share in the joy of dance.
Sunday, November 23, join choreographer, teaching artist, and somatic healer Amanda Cantrell Roche for a unique movement and visualization workshop to envision and shape your personal refuge. Move to Create: Sanctuary invites participants to shape their personal sanctuary or refuge through movement, and in the mind’s eye. Then, utilize the wealth of studio materials available to create a version of it with fabric, paints, chalk, glass beads, wood, stones, and more. 3-6 pm at Art & Soul Studio. Personal investment: $60. Click here to register.
“Move to Create is an energizing experience for getting in touch with authenticity through movement and taking it into a wonderland of creative sculpturing!” ~ Dawn
Ongoing
Pay What You Can Classes at DancEast! Looking for a dance class on a budget? Our pay what you can classes offer you an affordable option in taking with excellent instructors. Mat Pilates and Modern with Marcela De La Vega Luna Mondays 12:00-1:30 pm
Contemporary Technique with a rotating schedule of Amanda Reichert and Stacie Flood Popp Tuesdays 10:00-11:30 am
Evenings at DancEast
Join us after work for open level drop in classes. At just $15 a class, you can decompress and get a great class in! Open-Level Modern– with Shabaz Ujima Mondays 7:10-8:10 p.m.
Open-Level Contemporary– with Stacie Flood-Popp Tuesdays 6:45-8:00 p.m.
Open-Level Ballet– with Alexandira Wright Wednesdays 5:45-7:00 p.m.
Global Education Center Classes for Adults in November include Latin, Capoeira, Afro Dance, Zumba, and SharQui Belly Dance Workout! Register at https://form.jotform.com/201525468453052 For info and to see other classes: www.globaleducationcenter.org Also, Zouk Sundays are back! Foundations class 12–1 PM | Práctica 1–1:30 PM Perfect for beginners — or anyone wanting to refine their technique and connection. Global West. 4-week series or $20 drop in.
New Dialect community classes offer movers of all backgrounds, bodies, and experience levels supportive space to explore and connect in weekly contemporary movement sessions. Led by an inspiring line up of leading dance artists from across the Nashville dance community, each class is an invitation to tune into your body, build strength & artistry, and connect with a welcoming creative community. Whether you’re stepping into the studio for the first time or you’re an advanced dancer returning to your creative practice, these sessions are for you!
Through November 12, Mondays & Wednesdays from 10-11:30 AM, at Centennial Performing Arts Studios $10 drop in / $80 10-class card $4 drop in / $30 10-class card – BIPOC + seniors. Walk ups are welcome. For details on our schedule, class offerings, and teaching artists, visit newdialect.org/community-classes
di Mossa classes at CPAS Tuesday and Thursday 12:30- 2:00 Modern and Contemporary forms for dancers with some experience. Drop-ins welcome! $12 or 6 classes for $60 Fall season runs through November 13
Ecstatic Dance Nashville is the first and third Sunday of each month, 10:30 am at various locations. Click here for details.
December Save the Date
OZ Arts Nashville presents Becca Hoback’s SOLUS and shackled feet DANCE’s SYNERGY, December 5 & 6 at 8PM. Two of Tennessee’s most inspired choreographers collaborate with composers and video artists to create a double-bill of entirely original premieres merging dance, film, live music, and dynamic theatrical power. Becca Hoback embodies her fluid, expressive choreography in SOLUS, her collaboration with composer and cellist Kaitlyn Raitz that beautifully explores a search for the sacred and profound, capping off her triumphant, multi-year Sacral Series. Then community icons Shabaz Ujima and Thea Jones join together under the banner of shackled feet DANCE! to create a new work entitled SYNERGY, featuring a multigenerational group of 12 dancers alongside jazz musicians, led by trumpeter, composer, and visual artist Rod McGaha. This dynamic double-bill is a must-see for all local performance-lovers! Access discounted Artist & Creative Community tickets for just $20 on opening night — no code needed! Tickets & more info at: https://www.ozartsnashville.org/solus-synergy
If you are new on this list: This is a gathering of events I am aware of, submitted by those on the email list, and by no means represents all that is going on in the Middle TN area. I provide it as a volunteer service to the local dance community as part of an effort to help us stay connected and support each other by raising awareness of local dance performances, workshops, and events, and rely on those on the list serve to submit the listings.