Workshops
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MASTERCLASS FLEXIBILITY WORKSHOPS
WITH GUNNAR FIELD
Handstands
*TWO UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Sunday, April 13th
1-2:30PM | $35
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Friday, April 18th
5:30-7PM | $35
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Handbalancing. In this workshop, we will focus on utilizing core strength and learning how to self-correct positions and shift weight. Be prepared to push yourself, and come hydrated.
Prerequisites:
Able to kick up to handstand on wall
All-levels Flexibility
*TWO UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Sunday, April 13th
3-4:30PM | $35
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Saturday, April 19th
12-1:30PM | $35
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Curious about Backbending, learning the splits or just want to improve upon your flexibility for dance, aerial, pole or more?? Ever seen a beautiful backbend and thought to yourself, "I could never do that."? Well that is just not true. In this workshop we will be going over skills and drills that will help you on your backbend journey. Together we will have fun learning basic techniques to expand upon your backbend practice.
Focus will be on shoulder and hip mobility to best set us up for backbending and splits.
Come discover the joy of flexibility through safe and fun techniques.
All levels welcomed and encouraged to join
No prerequisites
Intro to Contortion
Saturday, April 19th
2-4PM | $40
This workshop is geared towards getting a taste for contortion or brushing up on skills, whether you are new to contortion or want to learn some new skills and sequences, we will go over warmups, drills for the hips, back and shoulders, balance exercises and partner shapes.
This workshop is open to contortionists of all levels but does have some light prerequisites.
Prerequisites:
Bridge with shoulders over hands i.e wheel pose
Splits close to flat or over
Comfortable kicking into handstand on the wall
Intro to Acro Dance
Sunday, April 20th
1-2:30PM | $35
Looking for new ways to interact with the floor? Want to add some new tricks to your toolkit? Ready to start working towards some exciting new floor tricks? This workshop is great for dancers, aerialists, pole artists, and movers of all kinds who want to learn new acrobatic ways to interact with the floor.
This workshop has no prerequsites.
Intermediate Contortion
Sunday, April 20th
3-5PM | $40
This workshop is directed toward the more advanced students wanting to clean up their skills & deepen their flexibility and understanding of their skills and tricks. We will work on handstands (straight and contortion), contortion sequences for transitions, drills for active splits, needle pose, chest-stands, and more. The focus will be on developing clean movements, sequencing & linking skills together.
Prerequisites:
feet to head in cobra
splits flat or over splits
standing backbend
free standing handstand (away from wall) 5 second hold
About the Instructor
Gunnar Field is a contortion and hand-balancing coach based in the USA, he has been teaching contortion for over a decade. Gunnar teaches Mongolian contortion techniques infused with his own flair and influenced by his past training in gymnastics and ballet. Gunnar began training contortion in Minneapolis, MN, coming from gymnastics and having a natural inclination towards flexibility he fell in love with the art immediately. He went to study contortion Ulaanbaatar Mongolia and trained under the guidance of Nargama Baatar. He has furthered his training in China at the Beijing international school of acrobatics and arts. He has performed around the USA, Thailand & China. Using his 30 years of accumulated knowledge of body movement and mechanics he has taken a somewhat different approach to teaching the art of contortion. We are excited to bring Gunnar to our studio to offer this workshop!
Check out his IG @Splits_Whisperer
