This January, join BodyStories for Movement and Dance Weekend at Nazareth University! In five unique classes, Teresa Fellion and BodyStories company members will guide movers through all different kinds of unique expression. Modern and Jazz dance, techniques in partnering, and emotion and presence in dance. We can’t wait to teach and share these works onstage with the Nazareth community!
Class Schedule:
Friday, January 23 – 4:00 – 5:00 PM – Modern Dance Partnering in Motion
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Location: George 102
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This workshop explores modern dance partnering through the lens of momentum, trust, and shared weight. This class will emphasize fluid transitions, responsive listening, and grounded physicality. Participants will investigate counterbalance, weight exchange, and lifts, while centering anatomical awareness, consent, and adaptability. Rooted in contemporary and release-based practices, the workshop supports inclusive partnering, encouraging dancers to move collaboratively while honoring individuality, connection, and safety.
Friday, January 23 – 5:15 – 6:30 PM – Jazz Technique
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Location: George 102
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This class explores jazz as a dynamic, evolving form rooted in history, musicality, and individual expression. Drawing from Broadway, concert jazz, and the African diaspora, the class emphasizes technique, rhythm, and embodied storytelling. This workshop centers on inclusivity, creative inquiry, and socially informed practice. Dancers will experience a head-to-toe warmup, across-the-floor technique exercises, and eccentric jazz combination, which builds physical strength, versatility, and a deeper connection between movement, music, and lived experience.
Saturday, January 24 – 10:45 – 11:55 AM – Dance Lab: Emotion in Motion
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Location: George 102
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This dance lab blends modern and contemporary dance techniques with improvisation and choreography, guiding participants through a process of discovery and creation. Together, we will generate movement rooted in emotional and thematic material, exploring how personal stories and shared ideas can shape dynamic performance. Through embodied practice, dancers will engage in deep expression, cultivate collaborative creativity, and develop choreography that reflects both individual voice and collective vision.
Saturday, January 24 – 3:00 – 4:15 PM – Modern
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Location: George 102
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This class will develop students’ modern and contemporary dance foundations, while challenging our minds and bodies to approach movement from a unique and sometimes unfamiliar lens. This class will focus on Horton, Graham, release techniques and organic movement approaches. Students will also explore elements of Laban technique and Limon, in addition to grounded release work and spirals informed by anatomical awareness inherited from Irene Dowd and Peggy Gould. Dancers will discover ways to integrate these techniques into their own individual movement practice and generate phrase work.
Sunday, January 25 – 12:50 – 2:05 PM – Choreographic Explorations and Presence in Performance
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Location: Sands Studio (Located in the Arts Center)
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Tools, Scoring, and Play: This workshop invites dancers to investigate choreography as an active, living process rooted in curiosity, embodiment, and choice. Drawing from Teresa Fellion’s choreographic practice with BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, participants will explore improvisational scores, compositional tools, and structured play to generate movement material. Emphasis is placed on presence, performative clarity, connection in performance, and responsiveness to space, collaborators, and audience. Through guided tasks, reflection, and experimentation, dancers will develop strategies for making work that is socially informed, expressive, and grounded in personal experience while expanding their creative and performative range.
Classes are $5 each, pay at the door. This event is first-come, first-serve, so don’t miss your chance to join us!
Not interested in classes? Join us at the Artist Weekend Showcase:
Sunday, January 25 at 4:00 PM, Callahan Theater.
Tickets- $10 for general admission, sold at the door.
We hope you’ll join us!