Masterclasses

Next Up:  Area Choreographers Festival – Theresa Bautista, from Moving Collective, Louisville, KY

Contemporary Dance Theater will present Area Choreographers Festival on June 8 & 9 at 8pm, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. ACF Choreographer Theresa Bautista, of Moving Collective, Louisville, KY, will teach an open community master class at the CDT studios in College Hill on Saturday, June 9 at 10:30am.  Read more about ACF and the Guest Artist Series here.

Class description:This intermediate/advanced class with Theresa Bautista begins with a warm-up exercise that is easy to learn. The class progresses to the floor to help discover body connections through somatic practices. Students are then taken through a series of several combinations to ground and align the body, calling upon modern dance fundamentals and release techniques. These exercises will be spatially expansive and push movement potential. Class will finish with phrase work that will challenge dancers to embody the material and call upon their technical training while making choices in performance to explore dynamic play.

Theresa Bautista has been hailed by the Louisville Courier Journal as “a delight to watch” and by Louisville Arts Review as “mesmerizing” on stage. A freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in the Louisville, KY area, she trained in Southern Indiana and Louisville where she gained experience in both dance and musical theatre. While earning her biology degree from Indiana University, she continued her dance studies in a program headed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. Theresa has performed with ICONography Dance, The Susie Thiel Collaborative, Anna Sapozhnikov’s MOYAMO DANCE, Gordon Dance Projects, Rachel James, jan street dance theatre, and Art! Art! Barking Dog Dance Company. Theresa is the founder and Co-Artistic Director of Moving Collective, a contemporary dance company in Louisville, KY. As a choreographer, she has created works for Centre College, Moving Collective, the University of Kentucky’s Department of Theatre and Dance, Berea College Modern Dance Troupe, the University of Louisville Dance Theatre, The Center for Women and Families, Empujon, Bluegrass Youth Ballet, and the University of Kentucky Dance Ensemble. Her work Victims, received Gala honors at the Southeast Regional Ballet Festival and her work, I am a pretty girl, was recently showcased at the Regional Alternative Dance Festival in Kalamazoo, MI and the Big River Dance Festival in Huntington, WV. Theresa teaches as adjunct faculty at the University of Kentucky’s Department of Theatre and Dance, the University of Louisville’s School of Music, and the Kentucky Center’s Governor’s School for the Arts, in addition to several studios in Louisville, KY.This class is open to adults and mature teen dancers (ages 13 and up) at intermediate and advanced levels, though advanced beginners are also welcome.

Please register in advance here on our website, or at the front desk at CDT during class time in person or over the phone (513) 591-1222.  For questions: dance@cdt-dance.org