Yael Flexer's Pro Class - Improvisation & Release: Embodying Image

Yael teaches a dynamic release-based class. Focusing on skeletal connections and imagery to find ease and flow of movement through the body, classes begin with exploratory improvisation work alone or with a partner and move on to formal exercises. Exercises build towards driving movement sequences. Emphasis is placed on functionality, use of weight, gravity, momentum, and inversion.

Yael's bio:

Co-artistic director of Flexer & Sandiland, Yael has created 15 full-length productions for the company touring throughout the UK and internationally. Flexer & Sandiland have been commissioned to create live and/or interactive works for, among others: Brighton Festival and Digital Festival, Frequency Festival, South East Dance, Sadler’s Wells and Barbican Centre, London, Hull Dance, Dance East, and Swindon Dance. Current touring projects include the installations Obscure Camera (Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, InSpace Gallery, Edinburgh, Creative Crawley, The Place, Wavelength Festival-Kollectiv Gallery, University of Chichester, Marine Workshops, Yorkshire Dance, Teo Arts Centre & Motus Festival) and An Elevated Platform (Brighton Festival, Frequency Festival). Recent productions include the live internationally touring dance works Imagining Otherwise and Acting Our Age. Past productions include: the family work Curiouser, the site-based app The Hum, and the live works Disappearing Acts, Weightless and The Living Room. 

Commissions as an independent artist include works for London Contemporary Dance School, Project Female, Three Score Dance, Encore East, Critical Moment, National Youth Dance Company and YDance, Scotland, Trinity-Laban, Motus, Maslool, RAS & Stavanger University, Norway and numerous works for youth C.A.T. programmes. Movement direction includes work with visual artist Rita Evans (Towner Gallery), Manuel Gagneux, Birdmask, theatre artist Tina Hofman & choreographer Adam Roberts. 

Flexer & Sandiland rare a prtenr company at South East Dance and regularly lead intergenerational improvisation based classes in Brighton, Folkestone, Crawley and online. Yael was is Reader in Dance and artistic director of mapdance at the University of Chichester.