09/28/2026
GUEST TEACHER OPEN CLASSES
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Jessi Stegall (she/her) is a choreographer based in Chicago, IL. She has been a choreographer-in-residence with Point Park School of Dance, DanceWorks Chicago, Visceral Dance Chicago, Boston Center for the Arts, the National Center for Choreography (Akron), New Dance Partners (Kansas City) Hot Crowd Dance Company, Little Fire Artist Collective, Fever Dream Dance Collective, Harvard ArtLab, National Parks Service, and was featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2022). In 2024, she premiered her first evening-length (65 min) production, “The Theremin Vignettes”, at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, produced by Global Arts Live. In 2025, she was an emerging choreographer at Springboard Danse in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Bodies in Process | Explore new pathways into movement-making through Laban-based studies. Dancers will investigate space, effort, shape, and dynamic qualities to generate improvisational prompts and create brief choreographic compositions. This class offers practical tools for expanding movement possibilities, strengthening creative decision-making, and developing a more distinct choreographic voice.
Come ready to investigate, create, and discover.
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Partnering Through Listening | Rooted in years of studying and teaching alongside Dr. Ilya Vidrin, this movement-based class brings together principles from social and contemporary dance, contact improvisation, martial arts, and somatic practices. Through a progressive series of partnering studies, dancers will explore weight sharing, physical communication, responsiveness, and efficiency. The class invites participants to cultivate trust, adaptability, and embodied awareness while discovering more sensitive and sustainable ways of moving with others.
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