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$5 Pilates
with Cera
Pilates is an effective method of gaining and maintaining muscular balance based on the work of Joseph Pilates. Working through simple, focused sequences, we find and correct imbalances of weakness and undue tension. Improved posture provides for increased strength , flexibility, and a whole new confidence! Whether tense "computer shoulders" are causing neck pain, a mal-aligned gait is slowing you down, or a little extra around the tummy is causing wardrobe dilemmas, Pilates has something for everyone. See for yourself why the Pilates method has taken the health and fitness world by storm!
Pilates is an effective method of gaining and maintaining muscular balance based on the work of Joseph Pilates. Working through simple, focused sequences, we find and correct imbalances of weakness and undue tension. Improved posture provides for increased strength , flexibility, and a whole new confidence! Whether tense "computer shoulders" are causing neck pain, a mal-aligned gait is slowing you down, or a little extra around the tummy is causing wardrobe dilemmas, Pilates has something for everyone. See for yourself why the Pilates method has taken the health and fitness world by storm!
Bellydance Improv + Performance Skills
with Najla
This mixed-level class will include warm up, drills, and improv exercises for the solo dancer. Students will come away with a solid introduction to traditional bellydance technique and solo improvisational performance skills.
This mixed-level class will include warm up, drills, and improv exercises for the solo dancer. Students will come away with a solid introduction to traditional bellydance technique and solo improvisational performance skills.
Cardio Dance Workout
with Claire Furlotte
Cardio dance will mix high energy cardio drills, Zumba (TM), and some strength and conditioning exercises to boost your heart rate, burn calories and tone your body. You'll get sweaty, you'll get smelly, and you'll be smiling the whole time! Cardio dance is a great class for all levels and is designed to give you a great workout while having fun!
Cardio dance will mix high energy cardio drills, Zumba (TM), and some strength and conditioning exercises to boost your heart rate, burn calories and tone your body. You'll get sweaty, you'll get smelly, and you'll be smiling the whole time! Cardio dance is a great class for all levels and is designed to give you a great workout while having fun!
Dance Conditioning
with Cera
This intense conditioning class focuses on developing the strength, alignment, and flexibility dancers need for any type of movement, or non-dancers need to build dancer physiques!
Classes include work on balance, strength training with weights, core conditioning, deep stretching, and alignment/postural correction.
These 30-minute blast classes are only $5 if you are using them as a "warm up" for the class after it!
This intense conditioning class focuses on developing the strength, alignment, and flexibility dancers need for any type of movement, or non-dancers need to build dancer physiques!
Classes include work on balance, strength training with weights, core conditioning, deep stretching, and alignment/postural correction.
These 30-minute blast classes are only $5 if you are using them as a "warm up" for the class after it!
Fusion Bellydance Levels 1 & 2
with Cera
In these classes we will build the foundation for solid dance technique that will last a lifetime. Using Pilates, Yoga, and a thorough understanding of anatomy, our warm up and drills will help us build strength, alignment, and posture that will serve us in our dance and daily lives.
This class is broken into layers of skeletal and muscular movements, learning first about moving the skeleton in space, and then about how to layer muscular isolations on top of that. This builds the foundation for layering and complicated traveling movements that can seem very difficult - but with a thorough understanding of your own body, become a snap! This formula is designed to produce freedom and ease of movement for all dancers, and to increase your learning curve by leaps and bounds - AND it's fun!
Fusion Bellydance Level 1:
* Basic Anatomy
* Posture
* Pilates & Yoga conditioning for flexibility & strength
* Basic isolations of head, shoulders, chest, and hips, introduction to traveling movements, arm & hand positions, introduction to music and phrasing
* (Structural understanding & "How To Learn Dance")
Recommended Cross-training: Modern Fusion, Dance Conditioning, Pilates, Yoga
Fusion Bellydance Level 2:
* Basic Anatomy & Postural Review
* Pilates & Yoga conditioning for flexibility & strength
* Increased precision of isolations, pops, hits, and locks
* Introduction to layering
* Increased precision traveling movements
* Turns
* Continued work on timing, phrasing, and musicality
* (Muscular understanding, developing a home practice)
Recommended Cross-training: Modern Fusion, Hip Hop Fusion, Dance Conditioning, Pilates, Yoga
In these classes we will build the foundation for solid dance technique that will last a lifetime. Using Pilates, Yoga, and a thorough understanding of anatomy, our warm up and drills will help us build strength, alignment, and posture that will serve us in our dance and daily lives.
This class is broken into layers of skeletal and muscular movements, learning first about moving the skeleton in space, and then about how to layer muscular isolations on top of that. This builds the foundation for layering and complicated traveling movements that can seem very difficult - but with a thorough understanding of your own body, become a snap! This formula is designed to produce freedom and ease of movement for all dancers, and to increase your learning curve by leaps and bounds - AND it's fun!
Fusion Bellydance Level 1:
* Basic Anatomy
* Posture
* Pilates & Yoga conditioning for flexibility & strength
* Basic isolations of head, shoulders, chest, and hips, introduction to traveling movements, arm & hand positions, introduction to music and phrasing
* (Structural understanding & "How To Learn Dance")
Recommended Cross-training: Modern Fusion, Dance Conditioning, Pilates, Yoga
Fusion Bellydance Level 2:
* Basic Anatomy & Postural Review
* Pilates & Yoga conditioning for flexibility & strength
* Increased precision of isolations, pops, hits, and locks
* Introduction to layering
* Increased precision traveling movements
* Turns
* Continued work on timing, phrasing, and musicality
* (Muscular understanding, developing a home practice)
Recommended Cross-training: Modern Fusion, Hip Hop Fusion, Dance Conditioning, Pilates, Yoga
Hip Hop
with Cera
A mixed level class fusing Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz, and world dance forms. This pulse-racing class is all about building your own dance style using Hip Hop as your foundation. Students will learn strong technique, isolations, and short choreographies . After an intense warm up and conditioning, the class will do pops, locks, ticks, liquiding, and flowing movements, followed by a high-energy yet accessible combination that will give you a workout and have you workin' it.
A mixed level class fusing Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz, and world dance forms. This pulse-racing class is all about building your own dance style using Hip Hop as your foundation. Students will learn strong technique, isolations, and short choreographies . After an intense warm up and conditioning, the class will do pops, locks, ticks, liquiding, and flowing movements, followed by a high-energy yet accessible combination that will give you a workout and have you workin' it.
Hip Hop Bellydance Fusion
with Brittney Laleh Bannaei
This class is a funky fantastic infusion of hip-hop, bellydance, a little bit of jazz, and whatever else may come up in the interim. Students will sweat, laugh and groove their way through killer combinations, thorough technical breakdowns and a fun atmosphere that will have you popping and locking your way to a brighter state of mind! All levels and ages welcome!
This class is a funky fantastic infusion of hip-hop, bellydance, a little bit of jazz, and whatever else may come up in the interim. Students will sweat, laugh and groove their way through killer combinations, thorough technical breakdowns and a fun atmosphere that will have you popping and locking your way to a brighter state of mind! All levels and ages welcome!
Salsa
with Nick & Serena
Learn all the basic, beginning, and intermediate moves for Salsa Rueda. Come be part of the exciting global community of Salsa Rueda! See a video of Nick & Salsa Rueda in action. About Nick - For over 14 years, Nick was a martial arts and movement instructor. Partner dancing and salsa were a natural progression. For the past 8 years, Nick has been teaching Salsa and in particular, Cuban style Salsa, bringing to it his existing concepts of connection, balance, and fluidity. Nick combines decades of Cuban tradition with modern movement concepts of space, timing, and flow. Presently, he teaches club-style Salsa, Rueda de Casino, cha cha cha, son, and several martial arts. Nick has trained and taught all over the U.S., including extended periods in Miami, New York, and Texas. He has also taught in Hawaii, and all over California. He has taught at numerous Salsa Congresses, Festivals and Cruises and is the co-star of "The Quick And Dirty Guide To Salsa vol. 4".
Learn all the basic, beginning, and intermediate moves for Salsa Rueda. Come be part of the exciting global community of Salsa Rueda! See a video of Nick & Salsa Rueda in action. About Nick - For over 14 years, Nick was a martial arts and movement instructor. Partner dancing and salsa were a natural progression. For the past 8 years, Nick has been teaching Salsa and in particular, Cuban style Salsa, bringing to it his existing concepts of connection, balance, and fluidity. Nick combines decades of Cuban tradition with modern movement concepts of space, timing, and flow. Presently, he teaches club-style Salsa, Rueda de Casino, cha cha cha, son, and several martial arts. Nick has trained and taught all over the U.S., including extended periods in Miami, New York, and Texas. He has also taught in Hawaii, and all over California. He has taught at numerous Salsa Congresses, Festivals and Cruises and is the co-star of "The Quick And Dirty Guide To Salsa vol. 4".
World Fusion Contemporary
with Cera
Cera's approach to Contemporary dance comes from Graham, Ailey, and Dunham techniques. Our focus is on alignment, technique, musical interpretation, and performance. The warm up is built to help you develop strength, flexibility, and western dance vocabulary.
Combinations, floor barre, and across the floor exercises start in western technique and draw on movements from Cera's diverse dance training, including Hip Hop, Kathak, Persian, Middle Eastern, Flamenco, and Afro-Caribbean movements.
All levels welcome.
Cera's approach to Contemporary dance comes from Graham, Ailey, and Dunham techniques. Our focus is on alignment, technique, musical interpretation, and performance. The warm up is built to help you develop strength, flexibility, and western dance vocabulary.
Combinations, floor barre, and across the floor exercises start in western technique and draw on movements from Cera's diverse dance training, including Hip Hop, Kathak, Persian, Middle Eastern, Flamenco, and Afro-Caribbean movements.
All levels welcome.
Yoga/Pilates Combo
with Cera
Utilizing Vinyasa, Iyengar, and Viniyoga traditions, in combination with the core strength training of Pilates, this class develops strength, flexibility, posture, and alignment. An awesome workout, this class is organically structured around the needs of each student as they come in - sore back? stiff muscles? unflexible hamstrings? just need to sweat? A dynamic class with one of the trademarks of Shoebox style - students supplying the raw materials for structuring the practice. All levels welcome.
Utilizing Vinyasa, Iyengar, and Viniyoga traditions, in combination with the core strength training of Pilates, this class develops strength, flexibility, posture, and alignment. An awesome workout, this class is organically structured around the needs of each student as they come in - sore back? stiff muscles? unflexible hamstrings? just need to sweat? A dynamic class with one of the trademarks of Shoebox style - students supplying the raw materials for structuring the practice. All levels welcome.
| "One of the many things I love about Shoebox is the individualized attention I get from the instructors there. When they show me a particular move, I end up REALLY knowing how to do it--as in, what muscles to use, where to move from, and how to not get injured in the process. The atmosphere is also really relaxed, friendly, and FUN! It's like a kinesiology lesson AND a rockin' dance party, all at the same time!" - Dr. Jess, Dance Conditioning, Bellydance, Samba, Hip Hop |