Masterclass with Kelsey Paschich - Countertechnique
Join Crossroads Dance Indy and Kelsey Paschich for a Countertechnique® Masterclass!
Countertechnique® is a movement system that equips dancers with tools to meet the physical and mental demands of contemporary dance. Through a clear structure of exercises, it helps dancers integrate information into action, improving strength, flexibility, and spatial awareness. By directing body parts away from each other, it fosters dynamic balance, reducing strain and encouraging risk-taking, efficiency, and agility.
About Kelsey:
Kelsey Paschich is a dancer and performer with over 25 years of professional experience, recognized for her ability to harmonize traditional dance with digital innovation. She has performed internationally with companies including Moscow State Classical Ballet, DCDC2, Thodos Dance Chicago, River North Chicago Dance Company, and ARCOS Dance, interpreting works by choreographers such as Robert Battle, José Limón, Ann Reinking, Robert Moses, Johan Renvall, Tamir Ginz, Lar Lubovitch, among many others.
Holding an MFA from the University of New Mexico and a BFA from Point Park University, Paschich is also a certified Countertechnique® teacher and Associate Professor of Innovation in Dance at Western Michigan University. She has taught for companies such as Ballet Preljocaj (France), SCDT (Chicago), EDD (Detroit), and institutions across four continents.
As a choreographer and digital dance artist, Paschich challenges the boundary between the real and the surreal, creating transdisciplinary works that explore the moving body’s relationship to technology. Through raw athleticism and refined technique, she crafts spaces where presence and absence become equal forces in the choreographic conversation. Her work—embracing precision and glitch—has been presented across Asia, Europe, Canada, and the U.S., including her multimedia solo Trio of Duality at the Seoul International Dance Festival.
Her contributions have earned her the WMU Presidential Innovation Professorship Award, invitations to the Choreographic Coding Lab in Cologne, the Creative Living for Dancers Award in Brussels, and other international recognition.
Photos by Gregory Lorenzutti @greglorenzutti
