Clinard Dance Workshops
Along with our year-round classes, Clinard Dance also holds supplemental workshops at our home studio in Pilsen featuring an array of local, national, and international artists. These workshops help to augment our classes by providing a unique and immersive experience while connecting members of our community.
April 19th, 1-3pm
Class Focus
This session explores how Poetic Body principles can be expressed through floor improvisation, working with gravity, breath, and weight. Participants will investigate how the body listens, releases, and generates movement while in contact with the floor.
Poetic Body is an embodiment-based movement master class that explores how the body carries emotion, memory, and cultural inheritance. Rooted in Chih-Jou Cheng’s creative practice and inspired by her ancestral traditions, this class approaches movement as a living system—where body, breath, story, and spirit are interconnected.
This class is designed for movers who want to deepen embodied awareness, expand expressive range, and reconnect movement to inner truth rather than external form alone.
What you’ll explore
Participants will work with core movement principles:
· Breath – as the source of initiation and phrasing
· Mind-body Connection– listening inward and outward
· Tension & release – shaping emotional texture
· Timing & rhythm – internal and relational pacing
· Weight– presence and support
· Energy exchange – sensing connection with others