Safety Release Technique Class

Join SRT Master Teacher kt williams for weekly Safety Release Technique class *every Monday morning from 11a-12:30p at Dovetail Studios. Class starts Monday, January 22!

**Class is $15 - cash/venmo at the door.

Sense. Examine. Listen.

This class offers an intermediate/advanced level approach to foundational contemporary dance technique and is based on Safety Release Technique principles, focusing on the spine, breath, movement efficiency, and freeing frozen tension. Class typically begins on the floor, and progresses into standing, traveling, and physically rigorous movement patterns. Class will offer opportunities for set movement patterning and improvisation, and will allow dancers to sense, examine, and listen to their internal body patterning. There is space for dancers to start slowly, modify, ask questions, make choices, play, take risks, and ultimately deepen their artistry through embodied practice.

This class is designed for both professional and collegiate-level dancers. All components will build upon each other, serving a mindful body of inquiry that continues to develop and grow. Previous dance experience is suggested, dancers of all backgrounds are welcome. Dancers are encouraged to wear long sleeves and loose-fitting pants to allow for floor work and ease of movement; knee-pads are optional.

Once students learn the specific patterning of Safety Release Technique, they will dive deeply into the movement practice and be able to synthesize their internal and external environments.

*Safety Release Technique (SRT) is a somatic movement application created and developed by B.J. Sullivan. Safety Release Technique is a dancing methodology that premises the moving body from a skeletal perspective. SRT specifically focuses on the spine action and the major joints directing energy and motion efficiently and freeing frozen tension. The class begins on the floor, with exercises that develop into a safety-roll series that help dancers get into and out of the floor easily while protecting vulnerable areas that are prone to injury through continued use. The combinations grow from floor work to upright work that have the body moving fully, with elasticity and fluidity. The class proceeds organically and cumulatively from a somatic awareness into rigorous physicality and artistic expression.

*No class on Monday, February 26.

**Dancers may reserve their spot here; cash/venmo can be paid in person to bypass online fees.