Adaptive Dance (ONLINE)

Adaptive Dance (ONLINE)

Children & Teens | This class is completed

Ages: 13+

10/23/2021-12/18/2021

1:45 PM-2:45 PM PDT on Sat

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$135.00 USD

Adaptive Dance is a brain-compatible creative dance class for students of all abilities/disabilities. Using brain-based teaching strategies, Adaptive Dance provides a balance of skill development and creative expression. The BrainDance, based on fundamental movement patterns, is used as a warm-up at the beginning of class. We celebrate personal creativity, improvisation, and group cooperation by navigating movement together. There are opportunities in class to reflect, share, and participate in active, ongoing conversations about how our bodies individually experience movement. We collectively investigate dance as an internal and external experience, using tools such as imagery and storytelling to guide our movement. Adaptive Dance is a class filled with mindful support and open spaces to develop body awareness and experience social-emotional learning. Participants are welcome to bring support in the form of family or staff to aid their participation.

  • This class is taught online over Zoom. Special 8 week session, October 23 to December 18. There is no class on November 27 (Thanksgiving Holiday).
Wilson, Bri

Bri Wilson (she/her) was raised in Petoskey, Michigan where she started dancing at age seven under the instruction of Heather Raue, Karrie Benedict, and Stephaine Cope. She earned her BFA in Dance from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California, and supplemented her collegiate training with intensives at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Movement Invention Project. Since moving to Seattle in 2018 she has worked with Elia Mrak, The Three Yells, Beth Terwilleger + The Gray, and performed in Converge Dance Festival, 12 Minutes Max, Soft Concrete I, and Next Fest Northwest.

Nyland, Joel

Joel has been dancing since age 3 and has been a leader in our Adaptive Dance program since it began. Joel shares: "I am a twenty year old dancer and songwriter.  I have danced mostly in my imagination my whole life because my brain functions differently and my body does not follow its instructions. I love helping others see the power of dance." A daily advocate for the spelling community, Joel is a “Spellebrity Ambassador” for the International Association for Spelling as Communication (I-ASC). Joel has performed his original songs in the Neurolyrical Café and at Boards & Chords. His first full album Presume Competency featuring Joel’s songs with contributions by Caden Rainey is available on Amazon Music and iTunes.