Ballet for Contemporary Dancers
easier, more joyful, and more human

The class continually re-evaluates classical technique focusing on strenghtening the dancers‘ awareness of their own alignment. Libby Farr’s study of the body technique Gyrokinesis has led her to a warm-up that invites the students to be aware of their bodies more deeply taking care particularly of the spine and the breathing. As people unfortunately refer often to ballet as if they would wear the wrong size clothes, it is essential for Libby to make ballet more easy, more joyful, and more human. The centre challenges the participants to use placement and release discovered at the barré as a source of strength and individual dynamics. Breathing will be often talked about, as to work against the tendency to overpower movement. How much energy is really needed for a movement?


Libby Farr
Libby Farr has been performing with several Ballets in the U.S.A. and Europe. For many years she has been dedicated to teach ballet and body awareness. Libby Farr is now a regular guest teacher at P.A.R.T.S. and for the past two years the ballet mistress of Ballet Pretty Ugly in Freiburg.