In this facilitated group, we find ways of supporting the unique needs of each member, while also learning to more effectively relate to others. We learn to be seen for who we really are – and to others as they really are.  We find healing where before we may have felt pain or disconnection from the self. We find insight, awareness and courage to break and move past old patterns that no longer serve us.  The sessions utilize Core Energetics, an approach that engages group members through body, dialogue and awareness. Group sessions include shared movement and expressive work and opportunities for members to process individual issues and struggles they want support in working through. This group provides a safe and therapeutic environment, where you can express your feelings, take risks, connect to others and further your emotional growth process.

This group will help with: PTSD, Various Forms of Abuse, Relationships, Anger, Body Image, Guilt/Shame, Anxiety, Panic, or Depression, Self Esteem, Injury, Addictions, Personal Growth, Life/Professional Transitions

In this facilitated group, we find ways of supporting the unique needs of each member, while also learning to more effectively relate to others. We learn to be seen for who we really are – and to others as they really are.  We find healing where before we may have felt pain or disconnection from the self. We find insight, awareness and courage to break and move past old patterns that no longer serve us.  The sessions utilize Core Energetics, an approach that engages group members through body, dialogue and awareness. Group sessions include shared movement and expressive work and opportunities for members to process individual issues and struggles they want support in working through. This group provides a safe and therapeutic environment, where you can express your feelings, take risks, connect to others and further your emotional growth process.

This group will help with: PTSD, Various Forms of Abuse, Relationships, Anger, Body Image, Guilt/Shame, Anxiety, Panic, or Depression, Self Esteem, Injury, Addictions, Personal Growth, Life/Professional Transitions

Featuring an amazing lineup of performers and you!

D.I.G. will provide 8 local choreographers an excellent opportunity to develop and share new work together during 8 sessions plus a Professional Development Workshop, ending in two culminating Take Root performances exclusive to their cohort.

Each 2-hour session will be moderated by a rotating member of the Green Space Advisory Board. During these  sessions choreographers will present their work at various stages to their cohort, followed by a moderated peer discussion, enabling choreographers to receive informative feedback in a supportive environment. 

D.I.G. is about building relationships with fellow artists and creating the opportunity to network with fellow NYC choreographers/dancers, all while creating new opportunities to grow within one’s own choreographic process.

In this facilitated group, we find ways of supporting the unique needs of each member, while also learning to more effectively relate to others. We learn to be seen for who we really are – and to others as they really are.  We find healing where before we may have felt pain or disconnection from the self. We find insight, awareness and courage to break and move past old patterns that no longer serve us.  The sessions utilize Core Energetics, an approach that engages group members through body, dialogue and awareness. Group sessions include shared movement and expressive work and opportunities for members to process individual issues and struggles they want support in working through. This group provides a safe and therapeutic environment, where you can express your feelings, take risks, connect to others and further your emotional growth process.

This group will help with: PTSD, Various Forms of Abuse, Relationships, Anger, Body Image, Guilt/Shame, Anxiety, Panic, or Depression, Self Esteem, Injury, Addictions, Personal Growth, Life/Professional Transitions

In this facilitated group, we find ways of supporting the unique needs of each member, while also learning to more effectively relate to others. We learn to be seen for who we really are – and to others as they really are.  We find healing where before we may have felt pain or disconnection from the self. We find insight, awareness and courage to break and move past old patterns that no longer serve us.  The sessions utilize Core Energetics, an approach that engages group members through body, dialogue and awareness. Group sessions include shared movement and expressive work and opportunities for members to process individual issues and struggles they want support in working through. This group provides a safe and therapeutic environment, where you can express your feelings, take risks, connect to others and further your emotional growth process.

This group will help with: PTSD, Various Forms of Abuse, Relationships, Anger, Body Image, Guilt/Shame, Anxiety, Panic, or Depression, Self Esteem, Injury, Addictions, Personal Growth, Life/Professional Transitions

Featuring an amazing lineup of performers and you!

Take Root performances wrap up at Green Space with work by Kaley Pruitt Dance and Laura Neese | Dance Projects on MAY 31 & JUNE 1 at 8PM.

Kaley Pruitt Dance

Kaley Pruitt founded her dance company Kaley Pruitt Dance in 2014 in New York City and has created over 30 works for the stage and screen.  She is originally from Ketchum, Idaho and is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at SUNY Brockport. She received her MFA in Dance & Choreography from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee where she was awarded the Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship.  She holds her BFA in Dance from Florida State University and was a member of their performing group, Dance Repertory Theatre under the direction of Lynda Davis.  Pruitt has been commissioned by Idaho Dance Theatre, Vision of Sound/Society for New Music, Repertory Dance Theatre, Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, Fem Dance Company, Simantikos Dance Chicago, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Illinois State University.  Additionally, the company has been presented by: NYS DanceForce, Modern American Dance Company (MADCO) Dare to Dance, Rochester Fringe Festival, Austin Dance Festival,  ACDA National Conference, Mark DeGarmo Dance, Milwaukee Fringe Festival, WIM Dance Festival, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Dixon Place Theater, Take Root at Green Space, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, Chez Bushwick and The Center for Performance Research, Built on Stilts Martha’s Vineyard, The Secret Theater, Ketchum Arts Commission, and Movement Research.  Pruitt has also held faculty positions at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Steffi Nossen School of Dance. 

Laura Neese | Dance Projects

In eukrasia (working title) Neese draws from her studies of the body in movement and on the dissection table to engage body as subject and matter, exploring its inner workings, function, expression, and the water and fibrous animal stuff that make us all. Through a combination of improvisational and set choreographic structures, dancers explore functional anatomy, interconnected systems, and cycles related to the human body. Obliquely referencing the Greek notion of the four humours, the work investigates the concept of living architecture, and interrogates how understanding our own human structures can help individuals engage in empathy and community.

Take Root performances wrap up at Green Space with work by Kaley Pruitt Dance and Laura Neese | Dance Projects on MAY 31 & JUNE 1 at 8PM.

Kaley Pruitt Dance

Kaley Pruitt founded her dance company Kaley Pruitt Dance in 2014 in New York City and has created over 30 works for the stage and screen.  She is originally from Ketchum, Idaho and is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at SUNY Brockport. She received her MFA in Dance & Choreography from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee where she was awarded the Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship.  She holds her BFA in Dance from Florida State University and was a member of their performing group, Dance Repertory Theatre under the direction of Lynda Davis.  Pruitt has been commissioned by Idaho Dance Theatre, Vision of Sound/Society for New Music, Repertory Dance Theatre, Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, Fem Dance Company, Simantikos Dance Chicago, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Illinois State University.  Additionally, the company has been presented by: NYS DanceForce, Modern American Dance Company (MADCO) Dare to Dance, Rochester Fringe Festival, Austin Dance Festival,  ACDA National Conference, Mark DeGarmo Dance, Milwaukee Fringe Festival, WIM Dance Festival, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Dixon Place Theater, Take Root at Green Space, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, Chez Bushwick and The Center for Performance Research, Built on Stilts Martha’s Vineyard, The Secret Theater, Ketchum Arts Commission, and Movement Research.  Pruitt has also held faculty positions at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Steffi Nossen School of Dance. 

Laura Neese | Dance Projects

In eukrasia (working title) Neese draws from her studies of the body in movement and on the dissection table to engage body as subject and matter, exploring its inner workings, function, expression, and the water and fibrous animal stuff that make us all. Through a combination of improvisational and set choreographic structures, dancers explore functional anatomy, interconnected systems, and cycles related to the human body. Obliquely referencing the Greek notion of the four humours, the work investigates the concept of living architecture, and interrogates how understanding our own human structures can help individuals engage in empathy and community.

“Skimming the Surface: Movement Healing Workshops” aim to service adult and youth populations that may be overcoming diverse forms of trauma and stress through somatic based expressive movement exercises. These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions.

The workshop helps participants confront emotional wounds and bring them to the surface in a gentle and compassionate way. When using the language of movement rather than words, different images or emotions may arise, which bypass the controlling and censoring mind. This experience leaves participants feeing expanded and curious about their emotions, with new insights to move forward from.

Each movement journey is handcrafted to best support the participants. Green serves as a guide to help open doorways where each individual will do their personal work, leading them to a heart centered and intuitive place, finding a physical expression and release of emotions and energy whereby a healing process can begin.

This workshop will be held at Green Space and is FREE of Charge

To RSVP email: CompanyManager@DanceEntropy.Org

Featuring an amazing lineup of performers and you!

Take Root performances continue at Green Space with work by Tina Croll + Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach on MAY 10 & 11 at 8PM.

Tina Croll + Company

Ancient Springs is inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and poet Kathleen Raine’s Defending Ancient Springs. Comprised of vignettes— “short stories”— this piece examines abstract and non-narrative methods of storytelling through movement and sound, a little gavotte, a twisted convulsive solo, a stately waltz on some town square. She Rides a Tiger is inspired by the Sanskrit saying” Sanghe Shakti Kalau Yuge” (In this Dark Age Strength is in Unity). Full of intricate spatial patterns and rhythmic contrasts, the work combines the choreographer’s ongoing interest in Eastern European/Asian folkdance forms. “She Rides a Tiger” refers to the Hindu goddess Durga, "The Invincible," the warrior goddess with many arms, each carrying a weapon.

Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach

What are our stories and how did they come to be? When The Sky Separated From The Earth asks questions around fantasy and reality, deception and truth, and duplicity and multiplicity. When The Sky is a playground, gym, town plaza, church, bedroom, stage, and home. It is loud and out-of-bounds; it is against the rules; it is not exactly true, but it isn’t exactly false, either. And it asks, “How can we trust - in ourselves, in others, and in our world?” It works to reveal our humanity – full of faults, but always with the capacity to listen to our own unique truths and the truths of those around us with compassion, goodwill, and heart.

Take Root performances continue at Green Space with work by Tina Croll + Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach on MAY 10 & 11 at 8PM.

Tina Croll + Company

Ancient Springs is inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and poet Kathleen Raine’s Defending Ancient Springs. Comprised of vignettes— “short stories”— this piece examines abstract and non-narrative methods of storytelling through movement and sound, a little gavotte, a twisted convulsive solo, a stately waltz on some town square. She Rides a Tiger is inspired by the Sanskrit saying” Sanghe Shakti Kalau Yuge” (In this Dark Age Strength is in Unity). Full of intricate spatial patterns and rhythmic contrasts, the work combines the choreographer’s ongoing interest in Eastern European/Asian folkdance forms. “She Rides a Tiger” refers to the Hindu goddess Durga, "The Invincible," the warrior goddess with many arms, each carrying a weapon.

Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach

What are our stories and how did they come to be? When The Sky Separated From The Earth asks questions around fantasy and reality, deception and truth, and duplicity and multiplicity. When The Sky is a playground, gym, town plaza, church, bedroom, stage, and home. It is loud and out-of-bounds; it is against the rules; it is not exactly true, but it isn’t exactly false, either. And it asks, “How can we trust - in ourselves, in others, and in our world?” It works to reveal our humanity – full of faults, but always with the capacity to listen to our own unique truths and the truths of those around us with compassion, goodwill, and heart.

We begin with a series of floor exercises designed to awaken the feet, spine, center, and pelvis. Next, standing center work focuses on exercises supported by proper alignment throughout the body. The class culminates in rhythmical, full-bodied movement combinations across the floor.

The Hawkins-based principles emphasized in this class are universally beneficial to dance training at all levels.

Every other Tuesday

Open Level

We begin with a series of floor exercises designed to awaken the feet, spine, center, and pelvis. Next, standing center work focuses on exercises supported by proper alignment throughout the body. The class culminates in rhythmical, full-bodied movement combinations across the floor.

The Hawkins-based principles emphasized in this class are universally beneficial to dance training at all levels.

Every other Tuesday

Open Level

Featuring an amazing lineup of performers and you!

Take Root performances continue at Green Space with work by David Appel and Mar Undag & Elliott Keller on APRIL 12 & 13 at 8PM.

David Appel

David Appel will premiere a new collaborative project with four other dancers, one that dives into and illuminates parallels to how we can more fully and fruitfully co-exist with others, and how an individual’s chosen pursuits can better meet, interact, and mesh with the diverse character of a group. Through an ongoing commitment to orchestrating evolving blends of improvised and set material, he challenges the participating movers to meet the moment: calling upon and honoring each person’s honed and special skills to articulate ever more clearly and vibrantly, while they encounter and tread paths through a combination of remembered signposts and unexpected change, as we do in life itself. The piece will serve as another response to questions around how we can enliven a performance practice that intriguingly models ways of engaging ourselves, each other, and the world through which we move. The dancers’ individual and collective presence will also be seasoned by alternative approaches to situating their moving vis-à-vis the audience, and shaded strategically by segments of various recorded musics and spoken word.

Mar Undag & Elliott Keller

The work will be a contemporary dance that explores the interplay between movement, music, and cinematography. The dancers, cinematographer, and music will work collaboratively to create a seamless and immersive experience for the audience. The first section explores the chaotic and conflicting emotions that arises internally. The second movement explores the theme of connection and empathy. The final part explores the theme of reflection and resolution. The projections will include both pre-filmed and real-time footage of the movements, displayed on a screen or surface.

Take Root performances continue at Green Space with work by David Appel and Mar Undag & Elliott Keller on APRIL 12 & 13 at 8PM.

David Appel

David Appel will premiere a new collaborative project with four other dancers, one that dives into and illuminates parallels to how we can more fully and fruitfully co-exist with others, and how an individual’s chosen pursuits can better meet, interact, and mesh with the diverse character of a group. Through an ongoing commitment to orchestrating evolving blends of improvised and set material, he challenges the participating movers to meet the moment: calling upon and honoring each person’s honed and special skills to articulate ever more clearly and vibrantly, while they encounter and tread paths through a combination of remembered signposts and unexpected change, as we do in life itself. The piece will serve as another response to questions around how we can enliven a performance practice that intriguingly models ways of engaging ourselves, each other, and the world through which we move. The dancers’ individual and collective presence will also be seasoned by alternative approaches to situating their moving vis-à-vis the audience, and shaded strategically by segments of various recorded musics and spoken word.

Mar Undag & Elliott Keller

The work will be a contemporary dance that explores the interplay between movement, music, and cinematography. The dancers, cinematographer, and music will work collaboratively to create a seamless and immersive experience for the audience. The first section explores the chaotic and conflicting emotions that arises internally. The second movement explores the theme of connection and empathy. The final part explores the theme of reflection and resolution. The projections will include both pre-filmed and real-time footage of the movements, displayed on a screen or surface.

We begin with a series of floor exercises designed to awaken the feet, spine, center, and pelvis. Next, standing center work focuses on exercises supported by proper alignment throughout the body. The class culminates in rhythmical, full-bodied movement combinations across the floor.

The Hawkins-based principles emphasized in this class are universally beneficial to dance training at all levels.

Every other Tuesday

Open Level