Workshop | Desirée James — Contemporary Technique

This workshop will focus on preparing and conditioning the body to build strength and safe practice, as well as building new pathways through exploration and challenging the mind-body connection through coordination tasks.

The session begins with a dynamic warm-up that mobilizes and conditions the body, focusing on an understanding of the body’s anatomy and structures. The main focus of the workshop will be floorwork progressions – with an emphasis on across the floor. Working with floorwork and movement fundamentals, inversions, releasing and grounding, anchoring, and flow – building confidence and fluidity in floorwork techniques.

The workshop concludes with phrase work that integrates these elements, allowing participants to embody their discoveries and celebrate the movement language they’ve developed.