In-person
Fridays, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
* Starting April 4, 2025
Fuel your Friday with movement that’s bold, joyful, and deeply embodied. Experience a cutting edge contemporary dance class that blends dynamic technique with playful exploration. Whether you’ve never danced or you’re highly experienced, you and your body will leave class smiling and satisfied!
We begin with a spirited guided warm-up that conditions, tones, and tunes you into your body. Rewire your brain and reconnect with your body by playing with coordination and contemporary rhythmicality, all while giving yourself a great workout.
You’ll release body tension, challenge your balance, learn to smoothly shift your weight, and move with your breath.
Come free the mind and loosen up your dancing skills on Friday afternoon to jumpstart your weekend!
This class sets you up to attend Jessica’s Contemporary Dance Performance Class that begins 5 minutes later.
Core Contemporary Principles & Techniques you’ll experience in this class:
- Fluidity and Freedom of Movement:
Emphasis on free-flowing, expressive movements, moving beyond the rigid structures of traditional ballet. - Improvisation:
Exploring movement spontaneously, allowing for creativity and a sense of discovery. - Floor Work:
Incorporating movements performed on the floor, emphasizing weight transfer and the use of gravity. - Release Technique:
Releasing unnecessary tension in the body, allowing for greater freedom and fluidity of movement. - Fall and Recovery:
Intentionally allowing the body to fall off balance and then finding stability again, expressing vulnerability, resilience, and adaptability. - Weight Transfer:
Shifting weight to move through space with ease, using the body’s natural mechanics. - Breath and Connection:
Connection between breath, movement, and emotion, allowing dancers to express themselves authentically.
Class Schedule
Jessica Eirado
Jessica thrills her audience and her students. Some movers inspire us with the longing and determination to move as beautifully they do – Jessica is one of those dancers and teachers! Jessica’s commitment to authentic movement, combined with her high skill level, seamlessly encourages us all to elevate our own.
Jessica studied aerial silks while still a teenager, stemming from her lifelong love of tree climbing. After some years of focus on her dance career, she began practicing aerial again while working with the company Not Standing, which blends dance and circus.
Jessica has been working as a freelance dancer/choreographer and movement teacher for the last 10 years, working and touring with several European companies and choreographers, such as Alexander Vantournhout, Agostina D’Alessandro, Jason Mabana, Zemiata, Compagnia Petranura Danza, Loris Petrillo, and Roberto Zappalà, among others.
Jessica is the co-artistic director with Eddie Oroyan of their dance company My Homeless Lover. She likes to experiment, research movement and keep things new, while appreciating the need for familiarity. She is a guest artist with the Minneapolis-based company, called Black Label Movement, for a work premiering in the prestigious American Dance Festival 2024 in October.
Jessica Eirado Enes was born and raised in Italy. After several trips that made her fall in love with the Hawaiian culture and land, she officially moved to O’ahu in 2024 to begin permaculture farming of the land, while staying connected with her dancing profession. You’ll enjoy her earthiness!
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