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We had an extraordinary time premiering Echo Mother last weekend.

Huge thanks to our friends at + for the invitation to share with your communities in Asheville and to and for your support. ✨

Echo Mother
Choreography
Performers +
Assistant + collaborator
Lighting + production Josh Weckesser
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Produced by with major funding support from

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Introducing Community Class teaching artist AMANDA REICHERT / .a.r.a.g.e.c.o

This week Amanda will be offering
IMPROVISATION + CONTEMPORARY FLOORWORK

5/4 & 5/6
10:35am-12:00pm
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Class will move through a combination of structured, floor focused exercises and imagery based improvisation. We’ll start on the ground, and work our way up to standing, exploring both patterned and self-discovered ways of moving between levels. We will build towards a movement phrase at the end of class to dance together.

ABOUT AMANDA:
Amanda Reichert is a freelance dancer and choreographer originally from Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University and has since worked as a freelance artist in both New York City and Nashville. She has presented work for the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space and Center for Performance Research in NYC, the Kindling Arts Festival, The Barbershop Theater, and COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN, at Festival Nómada in El Salvador, and b12 Dance Festival in Berlin. She is a recipient of a FY23 Metro Arts Thrive award, and a FY26 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Amanda is currently collaborating with Metro Parks Dance Division and Animata Arts alongside Sarah Salim and Kathryn Wilkening to help curate residency opportunities for artists in Middle Tennessee, and is also a co-founding member of the Garage Collective, a Nashville based improvisation group.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

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Introducing Community Class teaching artist BETSY HULTON /

This week Betsy will be leading our warm up with
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

5/4 & 5/6
9:30am-10:30am
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Alexander Technique: Moving with Awareness and Ease. Bring whole body awareness to all of your movement - from sitting at a computer to dancing - and discover more ease and coordination through identifying excess tension or unnecessary habits. We can learn to do something differently by first undoing; by pausing and consciously choosing.

ABOUT BETSY:
Betsy brings a background in dance and choreography to her understanding of movement and the Alexander Technique. She certified to teach Alexander many years ago, and teaches both in NYC and Nashville.

🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

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Introducing Community Class teaching artist MCKAY HOUSE / .a.r.a.g.e.c.o

This week McKay will be offering
CONTACT IMPROVISATION SKILLS

April 13th & 15th
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
This class will explore momentum, weight sharing, and spirals within partnerships, ground dynamics, and solo relating. We will be working together to develop our skills for tracking a partners momentum as well as our own abilities to act and react within an ever-changing environment. When do we choose to soften, to resist, to release, to redirect, to disengage?

ABOUT MCKAY:
McKay House lives and works in Nashville as a freelance dance and performance artist focusing most of her work on improvisation and dance for camera. She has conceived and performed original works at Future Dance Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Going Dutch Festival, Ladyfest CLT, and most recently the Asheville Fringe Festival. She is a recipient of the FY26 Thrive Grant via Metro Arts Nashville which she is currently utilizing to make a dance film with collaborator and fellow community member Emma Morrison. McKay is a co-founder of Nashville-based dance group Garage Collective as well as the community-driven play workshop Embodied Creativity.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio

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