Teaching

Joshua Bisset and Laura Quattrocchi teach movement and dance practices to all levels of students. Their teaching integrates over 20 years of practice in somatic dance and movement methods including the Feldenkrise Method, Skinner Releasing Technique, Klein Technique, Kinetic Awareness, Contact Improvisation, Aikido and wrestling. His classes focus on individual potential, physical clarity, and the joy of physical imagination and sensory feedback. In 2022/23 has taught at Andy Arts, Planet Ant, and A2SF in Detroit and internationally Centro Teatrale di Ricerca (Venice) , Indaco (Italy) and Piede Libero (Italy) . Current workshop offering are below.

Lizards to Eagles: the fantastic adaptability of human movement. This workshop/class uses development movement and fundamental energy patterns to bring integration and freedom to movers and dancers. We remember ancient evolutionary paths of our arms, legs and spine and move toward surprising ourselves with our potential for flight and fantastically easy movement through space. We learn patterns and pathways as a means to discover individual expressions and access connections to the group. This workshop is adapted to each circumstance based on the physical history of the participants.

Touch: clarity & communication . This workshop/class focuses on developing clarity in students’ relationships to touch and weight sharing. We seek a sense of calm, centeredness and well being amidst the often overstimulating scenarios of weigh-sharing, resistance, play with momentum and falling. Listening to the other and connection to our individual center and breath is developed. Our goals is to develop clear communication with other(s) - whether in dance partnering, improvisation or social dance. The workshops uses tools based in Josh’s practice of Contact Improvisation and Aikido.

Composing Relationships - this composition workshops focuses on our relationships to others, to space(s), and to the diverse aspects of our perception. We move and compose because of others, of space, and in relation to the sensations that arrive in and outside of us. Focus is on gentle decision making, play, and appreciation of every movement and observing one another. Together we release the idea that dance must be an image or a particular object or idea and embrace it as culture, communication, multiplicity and power.