Dance Training: The School at Jacob's Pillow with James Truitte, Bella Lewitsky, Carmen DeLavallade; personally trained by Horton master teachers Milton Myers and Donald Martin; The Erick Hawkins School of Dance; The Ailey School; Washington School of Ballet; B.A. from The American University
Performance/Company Affiliations: principal dancer with The Erick Hawkins Dance Company and BALAM (Balinese American)Dance Theatre; soloist for The Lester Horton Dance Theatre, Inc.; Joyce Trisler Danscompany; Isadora Duncan Dance Visions Co.; The Kennedy Center's "The Nightingale Ballet"; Washington Opera Ballet; Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Founding member of Paris-based company S.WA.T.T. (www.swattworld.com)
Teaching Experience: internationally as assistant/demonstrator to Milton Myers; Marymount Manhattan College, The Ailey School, Toronto Dance Theatre, Boston Summer Dance Festival, Boston Youth Moves, The Washington School of Ballet; internationally as guest teacher for master class workshops and festivals
Class Description:
Based in The Horton Technique, this class will take the body through a series of exercises utilizing each part of the body. From fingertip articulation to elongation of the entire body in space on a lateral plane, The Horton discipline is attentive to minute detail as well as length and freedom of space-craving movements.
Rhythmic challenges, expression, a meditative sense of focus and control, sparkling clarity and precision, windy snake-like qualities, AND the sheer joy of dance itself are the elements that Kristina Berger brings to her classes!
Website: www.swattworld.com
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