I teach Contact Improvisation, improvisation as performance, and somatic-based contemporary dance rooted in release techniques.

 

My pedagogy is inclusive, accessible to a wide variety of ages, and intentionally designed to welcome and challenge curious movers of all physical abilities.

 

I have shared this work in community classes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, at the Long Beach Spring Contact Festival, through AXIS Dance Company’s disability-inclusive community, outreach, and intensive programs. Currently, I'm continuing my teaching practice as a an MFA Fellow in Dance at Smith College.

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My classes integrate neurophysiology, ecological psychology, somatics, and/or phrasework as entry points into developing sensitivity to weight, spatiality, fascial systems, and relationality.

 

We explore these areas through solo practices, guided improvisation, structured compositional scores and, sometimes, set material.

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I am interested in how movers make choices in real time. How action, attention, perception, and relationship create physical form, energetic life, and shape emergent story-ness. I support dancers in building well-resourced, responsive bodies and minds while cultivating clarity in movement-based decision-making.

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Please email for booking: evangelho.clairey@gmail.com