Yoga for Dancers
Yoga as an art, a science and a practice

In this Hatha Vinyasa based class the Israeli Ori Flomin, member of the Stephen Petronio Company for many years, will present Yoga as an art, a science and a practice. A way for dancers to deepen their knowledge of their own body and understand its connection with the mind, breath and spirit. Strong emphasis will be put into our continued awareness of using breath through challenging postures. This will enable us to find a calm centre and push our physical ability forward without adding stress to our bodies.

The class will begin with a brief chant followed by breathing exercises and sun salutation, helping the body to mold and shape into other poses. The class will move to postures that strengthen and stretch the whole body: Balance poses, standing poses, forward bends, back bends, twists and inversions. The class will finish with a deep final relaxation. Some partnering stretches will also be taught.



Contemporary Technique
spatial extremes outside imagined boundaries

The class encourages students to learn how to maximise the use of the warmed-up body to increase their movement possibilities and take risks in dancing. The initial warm-up uses elements from Yoga, Ballet and Release technique to focus on discovering and strengthening connections within the body’s structure and to find a sense of fluidity in the joints. Dancers will develop an understanding of the connections between their body, the floor and how using momentum and breath allows an exploration of physically full dancing with the least amount of muscular tension.

During phrase work the dancers will learn how to incoporate all the information from the warm–up to aid the dancer in the execution of more complicated sequences as well as continuing to control the use of breath which can help maintain a strong centre from which one can explode.



Ori Flomin
Ori Flomin is from Israel and has been dancing in New York City since 1989. His choreography has been seen in NYC at Dance Theater Workshop, PS122 New Stuff, Movement Research at Judson Church, DanceMopolitan at Joes’ Pub, Dance New Amsterdam, and internationally in Austria, Japan and Israel.
In Fall 2008 he created his first full evening length piece “Significant Moments” at SEAD/Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria) with a cast of 120 dancers.

From 2005-09 he was the assistant to the artistic director of Stephen Petronio Dance Company for which he also danced from 1991-1999.
He also had the pleasure to dance in the works of Neil Greenberg, Mollisa Fenely, Kevin Wynn, Michael Clark, Maria Hassabi and Chamecki/Lerner among others.

He teaches dance and yoga as a guest artist for several companies and schools in Europe such as ImpulsTanz (Vienna), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) , SEAD (Salzburg), The Place (London), Culberg Ballet (Stockholm), DansensHus (copenhagen), Sasha Waltz Company (Berlin) and Dance Ireland (Dublin) among many others as well as teaching regularly at Dance New Amsterdam and Movement Research in NYC.

He is currently a part time faculty at Barnard College in NYC. In addition, he received his Shiatsu certification from the Ohashi institute in spring 2001 and maintains and active practice.
For more info: www.Oriflomin.com