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Mondays
4 PM - 5:30 PM
October 12 - December 14
Yang Sheng Gong | Shinichi iova-koga
Priced on a sliding scale | Studio 3 - Studio Complex
Email info@inkboat.com with any questions
Yang Sheng Gong includes a series of physical exercises designed to soften the body, develop functional flexibility, and promote general health. It does this by increasing the power of the immune system, strengthening connective tissue, tendons and joints, and increasing the flow of Qi, blood, and subtle fluids. Lung resiliency develops through breath exercises (Tu Gu Na Xin). Standing meditation postures help cultivate internal energy and regulation of the mind and consciousness by uniting movement and stillness.
Yang Sheng Gong reduces stress, tension and anxiety; celebrates breath; opens brachial pathways; clears stagnation; expels toxins; develops balance and coordination; oxygenates the muscles; promotes healthy organ function; regulates the nervous system.
Shinichi Iova-Koga serves as the Artistic Director of the dance theater company inkBoat, founded by Iova-Koga in 1998. He has toured North America, Europe, South Korea and Japan, often collaborating with local artists in museums, theaters, studios and site-specific locations. Learn more at https://www.inkboat.com/inkbio/shinichi_iova_koga/
Wednesdays
10 AM - 11:30 AM
Thursdays
6:30 PM - 8 PM October 28- December 23
** No class on Thursday, November 26
Adult Advanced Beginner Ballet
$20 per class | Studio 3 - Studio Complex
Email hillary@hillaryjackson.net with any questions.
All levels welcome. This is an ongoing, pay-as-you-go class; weekly attendance is not required.
In this advanced-beginner/slow-intermediate level class, students will study the fine art of classical ballet, learning to execute movements safely, and with joy and grace! The class is influenced by the Vaganova Method, which emphasizes proper alignment, whole-body awareness, and development of the stabilizer muscles to prevent injury. Through the methodical practice of exercises progressing from the floor, to the barre, to the center, students will gain strength, flexibility, and musicality. Some previous experience and familiarity with basic ballet vocabulary is recommended.
Hillary Jackson received her early training at the Princeton Ballet School and Eliot Feld’s New Ballet School (now Ballet Tech) in New York City, as well as in summer intensives at the San Francisco Ballet and Joffrey Ballet schools. She was a YoungArts awardee in ballet and the recipient of a New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education - Student Award. Hillary performed with the Princeton Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet companies as a trainee before leaving dance to pursue other interests. She returned to dance in the early 2000s when she discovered Simonson Technique at Dance Space Center in NYC. Since 2018, Hillary has dedicated herself to the art and science of teaching the Vaganova Method, studying Levels 0 - 2 with master pedagogues Annette T. Thomas and Janet L. Springer. Hillary is also an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. Other dance pedagogical studies include Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s Proven Teaching Syllabus©, Bolshoi Ballet Academy Teacher Training Seminars, Laban Movement Analysis, and the Simonson Method of Teacher Training.
A teacher of both ballet and contemporary dance, Hillary has been on faculty at Ballet Central New Jersey (BalletCNJ), Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts, Dream Studio Dance, Berkshire Pulse, Barefoot Dance Center, Dance and Theater Arts, and the Catskill Mountain Foundation where she helped launch the Orpheum Dance Program directed by Victoria Rinaldi. Her choreographic work has been presented at Choreography on the Edge in Woodstock and Kingston, NY. She has also choreographed several musicals for the Ellenville Central School District through a partnership with Shadowland Stages.
Photo by Michael Gold