Modern Technique Intermediate & Advanced
complete, fundamental and structured

The class starts with a floor bar inspired by the Feldenkrais technique. It is important to loosen the articulations, rid the body of unnecessary tensions and take time to observe the breathing. The movements and directions proposed are simple and each student must find an answer that corresponds to his/her body.
These exercises take place while the dancer is lying on the floor which enables the muscles to relax hence eliminating the tensions in the body. These movements are very precise and minimal and concern specific parts of the body very often the spine and the pelvic area etc. The reason for these exercises is to help the dancer to become aware of his/her body and how it functions. This duration of the floor barre is between 20 or 30 minutes.

The second part of the class consists of a series of exercises (we are now standing), working in the parallel position. These exercises concentrate on the mobility of the spine the torso and the pelvic area, allowing the participants to begin to feel a certain freedom of movement and at the same time helping him/her to understand the two directions of the body in the standing position: the pressure of the feet into the floor, the sacrum to the heels towards the floor and the waist to the head in the upward direction.

The next step is the work either at the barre or in the centre. We now move onto working in the turned out position. The exercises proposed in this section of the class combine work on the legs and upper body to assure a total engagement of the body. Each part of the body is related to another and it is very important to be able to direct the movements instead of trying to keep the movement for oneself.

After these three stages of exercises we are now ready to move, and cross the floor exercises are the next step. Moving in space, projection, fluidity of energy in the body as it moves through space, turns and jumps. Often it is the upper body that initiates the movements.
The class always ends with jumps, imperatively, because to jump aids to understand the connection of space and time which is fundamental to every dancer.




Richild Springer
Born in Barbados, Richild SPRINGER carried out her studies in Jamaica. After a dance degree at the Bard College of New York, she entered Donald McKAYLE ‘s Dance Company, before being offered a contract at Double Exposure, Company created in Germany by the American choreographer Lester WILSON.
Dance Delegate for the Cultural Affairs ministry of Barbados and Artistic Directress of Barbados Dance Theater Company. She thereafter created her own company, Dance Experience.
As a dancer she also appeared on television in France and England. In London, she has worked with Molly MOLLOY and teached to the London Contemporary Dance Theater. She also occurred in London in the musical Cabaret and went on Tour with Samy DAVIS Jr. She took part in the last Josephine BAKER’S Review in Monte Carlo and yet at the age of 25, in Paris, was chosen to incarnate Josephine BAKER herself. In France, Mrs SPRINGER was a member of Peter GOSS Company from creation to end, and has ever since been assisting Mr GOSS in his teaching method.
Richild SPRINGER also teaches to Ballet PRELJOCAJ, Maguy MARIN’s and Philippe TREHET’s Companies, to Ballet du Nord; in Belgium she teaches to Rosas - Anne Teresa De KEERSMAEKER ‘s Company- as well as Charleroi/Danses, and, in Holland, to the Company Itzik GALILI.
She collaborated with the Producers Andrei SERBAN, for The Master and the Marguerite, and with Yannis KOKKOS as dancer and choreographer, for Damnation of Faust, Salome, Alcester, Sad Tropics, Elektra, Hansel und Gretel, Outis, Orestie, Midsummer night Dream, Phaedra, Dido and Aeneas, Troyens, and The Birds.
In 2004, Yannis KOKKOS entrusted to her the role of Nidya in Philippe FENELON‘s world creation opera The Kings, and in 2005 She danced and choreographed for The Bassarides from Hans Werner HENZE.