🗓 Tuesdays from July 14 - Aug 25

🕰️ 7-8:30pm

🗺 Fractal: 248 McKibbin St 1G, Brooklyn

💰 Sliding scale of $200-$500 (ask your employer if you have a continuing education budget for classes)

📋 Application form

About

Street dance cultures emerged from people gathering together: at clubs, parties, battles, parks, and sessions, using movement as a way to connect, express, communicate, and transform everyday life into something more alive. Yet for many adults, dance can feel inaccessible. Either highly performative, technically intimidating, or disconnected from the simple joy of moving to music with other people.

This course is an introduction to the world of street dance through the lens of embodiment, rhythm, expression, and social movement. Over 8 weeks, we’ll explore a range of styles and movement approaches including Hip Hop, House, Vogue, Waacking, Popping, and freestyle improvisation. Rather than pursuing mastery of any single style, the course will focus on exploring the distinct feelings, energies, and movement qualities each style brings into the body.

Each class will begin with an exploration of a style’s foundational grooves, mechanics, posture, rhythm, and feeling. We’ll investigate questions such as: What makes house feel liberating and expansive? Why does vogue create confidence and clarity through lines and angles? How does groove change the way we relate to music, tension, and other people?

Beyond learning steps, this course is interested in movement as a way of shifting states. How do different movement qualities affect how we take up space socially? What happens when analytical people learn to respond more instinctively?

By expanding their movement vocabulary, participants may also discover new ways of expressing themselves, connecting with others, and feeling more at ease in their bodies. The goal is not just to learn dance styles, but to develop a greater sense of freedom, responsiveness, and play, whether at a party, in social spaces, or in everyday life.

This course is designed especially for beginners and curious movers. No prior dance experience is necessary. The intention of the course is not specialization, but exposure. To give participants a broader movement vocabulary, a deeper relationship to music and embodiment, and an opportunity to discover what kinds of movement feel most alive to them.

For participants who feel especially drawn to a particular style, the course can also serve as a gateway into New York’s larger dance ecosystem. Throughout the series, participants will be pointed toward classes, sessions, social dances, battles, and communities where they can continue developing their practice and build deeper connections within the city’s rich street dance cultures.

Some classes will include guest teachers from the street dance community.

Syllabus