Community Class with Alex Ketley
Sat, Jan 07
|Hidden Valley Music Seminars
Movers of all ages and abilities are invited to ALEX KETLEY's Community Class! Don't miss the opportunity to have fun dancing with good music, good moves, and good people.
Time & Location
Jan 07, 2023, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Hidden Valley Music Seminars, 104 W Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel Valley, CA 93924, USA
About the Experience
ABOUT ALEX KETLEY'S "HOT MESS" COMMUNITY CLASS
Over the years, Ketley has flourished as director of The Foundry (a multimedia dance company based in San Francisco), taught theater and performance studies at Stanford University, and created his own technique titled “Hot Mess” that he taught at San Francisco Conservatory of Dance (where was resident choreographer) along with other standard ballet and choreography classes. Ketley describes his Hot Mess classes as ridiculous movements performed in a cycle that becomes increasingly more extreme with each set. For example, he might ask dancers to turn yoga poses into a silly hip-hop dance while singing a romantic song in a made-up language while making terrible faces. “No one can accomplish these prompts in a good way,” Ketley says. “They scramble the body a bit and allow me to use failure as a creative tool. It challenges our notions of beauty."
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