Wednesday Night Dance Improvisation November 5th with Loren Groenendaal

[Curt Haworth]

Wednesday Night Dance Improvisation

 

Improvisation Performance Practice with Rotating Teachers

Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm 

(October 29-December 17, 2025, no class November 26)

at Headlong/Mascher Space, 1170 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19146

 

$0-25 sliding scale ($15 suggested), cash or Venmo.

Pre-registration not required

Please ring the "Rear Studio" buzzer to be let into the building 

Mask optional

Loren Groenendaal is leading November 5th 

Loren (they/she) is a dancer, improviser, choreographer, and educator. Loren focuses her curatorial energy on live improvisational music and dance events with Free Fleet and Semi-Composed through Vervet Dance and has been involved with The H-O-T Series, Impermanent Society of Philadelphia and Dissolving Doors. Loren holds a BA in Dance from Oberlin College where she trained in choreography and improvisation with Ann Cooper Albright and Nusha Martynuk and an MFA in Choreography from UNC Greensboro where she included improvisation in her studies and thesis advised by John Gamble. Loren is also a Certified Movement Analyst in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. Loren has taught improvisation at Muhlenberg College, UNC Greensboro, through Mural Arts, and as a special guest at Juniata College, Temple University, Towson University, and the former University of the Arts. Loren currently teaches at Rowan University, at Cardell Dance Studio, and in rotation for Contact Improv Philly and Improvisation Performance Practice. http://www.vervetdance.org/more-about-loren-groenendaal.php

The class will focus on moving with free, bound, and fluctuating flow and for different announced durations. We will discuss different perceptions of time and explore how these varied modes of movement and perceptions influence each other, creating more coherence or more dissonance. We'll bring this research into the relationship of duets and trios before applying our awareness and practice to larger ensemble composition. This class will be referencing and expanding on Loren's years of research on these themes in improvisation and choreography as well as her certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies and study with other great improvisers including Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little, Nina Martin, and potentially more

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Curt Haworth

Choreographer-Improviser-Teacher