friday february 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th: 10a-12p
please RSVP: walk-ins are welcome, but there is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended.
$15-30 sliding scale/ pay what you can. please pay at or before class.
for payment: venmo- @marion-spencer / paypal- marion.l.spencer@gmail.com / zelle for that email as well / cash also accepted
about morning class/
morning class is a highly imaginative + highly physical investigation of ourselves as movers. Together, we cultivate a space for building curiosity, community, care and rigor by embracing experimentation, kindness and the joy of movement. This is a laboratory: risk and failure are encouraged, as they are part of the learning process. We work from the body we bring each day, and we are invited to call upon all the techniques and herstories/theystories/histories that our bodies hold. Class begins with a sensation-based collage of improvisation, somatics and set sequences rooted in the technical fundamentals of euro-american release technique and postmodern dance. We follow impulses that lie just beneath the surface of the skin and deep inside our bones. We might engage in consent-based partner stretches and small group improvisation exercises. Class culminates with a set-ish phrase that encourages cultivating individual choicemaking and artistry within the material.
i consider class both a functional and sacred practice. I adore the magic that is created when people come together for the sake of attending to our bodies and creativities. It feels inherently radical- learning, working, building community, sharing practice with no product or end in mind other than the here and now of showing up. Please come get what you need, please ask for what you need. All levels are welcome, however please note that this class is structured for movers & dance artists with a regular physical practice.
about marion/
marion spencer is a Bessie Award-nominated interdisciplinary dance artist living in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. Through a poetic and subversive weaving of artistic mediums including movement, sound and installation, marion creates solo and ensemble performances that excavate extinction, adaptation and futurity. Her practice is feminine, feminist and interdisciplinary. Her work has been presented in NYC by La Mama Experimental Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Gibney, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, and more. She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell, The American Dance Festival, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Gibney, The Field Center, Amherst College and Mana Contemporary, among others. As a performer, marion has had the pleasure of collaborating with Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, BAND|portier, Laura Peterson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Michelle Boulé, Tyler Rai and as a guest performer with David Dorfman Dance and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She has been on faculty at Rutgers University, Sarah Lawrence College, Gibney, Peridance, Dancewave and more. Her teaching practice is forever evolving and forever influenced by lessons from mentors/ teachers/ friends - Kendra Portier, Michelle Boulé, Jennifer Nugent, Joanna Kotze, Luciana Achugar, Miguel Gutierrez, Samita Sinha, Angie Pittman, John Jasperse, Anna Sperber, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yanira Castro, Janet Panetta, Lisa Race, Vicky Shick & Laura Stein. She holds an MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2025), and a BA with Honors in Geography-Anthropology from Vassar College (2009).
photo by Anna Maynard