Earthdancing: Subtle Sensuality in Micro Fusion

In this 2-hour micro fusion dance workshop, world-renowned guest instructor Ally Yancey will take us on a journey through the resource and power of the Earth element. Come deepen your presence, quality of embrace, shared energy, and attentive leading and following through the qualities of…

🟤 Grounding: Move into groundedness by consciously receiving the support of gravity, contact, and deeper sensing of your authenticity. How do you want to show up for your body tonight? What are your limits and boundaries that you wish to honor? This is a space for you.

🌳 Rooting: An introduction to micro fusion principles applied within a stationary standing position, without a need to move your feet a single inch. Perfect for packed house parties and sold out dance floors—we'll start here with whole-body posturing and adjusting your feet for better balance, control, and connection.

🪵 Trunking: While fusion can often be wiggly and wavey, here we will practice widening the spectrum with more integral, solid torso movements in relationship with the ground. This quality will expand our access to more powerful earthy movements, exploring the connection between our knees, hips, torsos, and shoulders.

🌲 Branching: Having established our base, we will continue the moving the power of the earth through our branches. How do we communicate the different energies of our earthy movement to each other through our contact? Can our arms feel just as grounded, restful, and safe as our legs? Can our rootedness offer a new freedom of movement in our treetops?

🍂 Falling: Ultra-soft invites of gravitational flow meet equally soft responses downward. Navigate spaciousness, energy-sharing, and expressiveness as we communicate in the down-shifting from power to surrender.

This workshop emphasizes subtlety and sensitivity over spectacle, guiding dancers to develop a shared expression of sensuality through agency, attunement, and authenticity.

Sliding scale $35-$65

Venmo: @PortlandDance

6:15PM doors open

6:30PM class begins (please be on time)

6:45PM doors close (no exceptions)

8:30PM class ends

Portland Dance Studio

232 SE Oak St

Portland, OR 97214