TWO FRIDAYS EACH MONTH THIS FALL

10:00am-11:30am 

Extensions Dance Studio, 3933 N. Elston Ave., Chicago



TEACHER SCHEDULE
Friday, September 19: Benjamin Law

Friday, September 26: Dardi McGinley-Gallivan

Friday, October 10: Jonathan Meyer

Friday, October 17: Victor Alexander

Friday, November 7: Dardi McGinley Gallivan

Friday, November 14: Benjamin Law 



Class fee: 
$14 per Class or $10 Professional rate per Class
Cash or Check accepted at the door

Mordine & Company offers Contemporary Dance Technique classes to the community. Advanced, pre-professional, and professional dancers are welcome to take part in these classes. Mordine & Company views the study of technique as a means to more incisive performance; instructors focus on clarity of intention and precision of movement as a means to expand artistic expression. Featuring renowned Chicago teachers of contemporary dance. More info: http://www.mordine.org/#!classes/c10l1

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

VICTOR ALEXANDER  A native of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Victor Alexander’s international career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer began with studies in modern and Cuban folkloric dance at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana. He graduated ENA in 1992, the same year he was awarded first place for dance at Havana’s 4th National Union of Writers and Artists. Alexander then joined Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, where he remained a principal dancer until 2002 and established and refined his technique and artistry. Alexander has studied with many distinguished teachers including Donald McKayle, Chuck Davis and Jeffrey Bullock; and has performed throughout Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the United States. Since relocating to Chicago in 2002, Alexander has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Hedwig Dances, CDI / Concert Dance Inc. and Luna Negra Dance Theater. Of particular importance to him is teaching in programs bringing dance to youth in Chicago Public Schools including Dance Art (2007–10) and the Elementary Dance Scholarship Program (2010–11). In 2012, he was selected by the Chicago Dancemakers Forum as one of four choreographers in CDF’s year-long Lab Artists Program for creative development, and was included among Dance Magazine’s list of “25 to Watch” internationally for 2013. He received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council for his work Line of Sighs, named by the Chicago Tribune as one of the 10 best dance productions of 2013, and was one of the 2013 Novel Affair Artists selected by the Ragdale Curatorial Board. In summer 2013, Alexander joined the artistic and administrative team of the Ruth Page Center for the Arts; as both director of the Ruth Page School of Dance and co-director of the Ruth Page Civic Ballet, he continues their traditions of exceptional training, and mentoring the nation’s next generation of dancers.

BEN LAW is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®, co-director with Mikey Rioux of The SHO, ensemble member of Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, Kate Corby & Dancers, and CDI/Concert Dance Inc., and adjunct lecturer at Northeastern Illinois University. He has previously worked with Lucky Plush Productions, Mordine & Company Dance Theater, Julia Rae Antonick/Khecari, Hedwig Dances, and the Dance COLEctive. He has performed Tino Seghal’s Kiss at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Ben teaches contemporary modern dance in combination with the Feldenkrais Method® in studios, high schools, and Universities in the Chicago area, and has taught Feldenkrais and lectured on kinesiology for the American College Dance Festival.

DARDI MCGINLEY GALLIVAN received a BA in Art History from Emory University and an MA in Dance from The Ohio State University. She has been on the faculty at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago since 1993 when she also joined Mordine and Company Dance Theatre. In 1996 she received a Ruth Page Dance Achievement Award for her performance in Mordine's Edge Mode. Dardi is also a founding member of Mad Shak Dance Company and has performed many times for the Colleen Halloran Performance Group. Dardi has had the pleasure of teaching company classes for The Dance COLEctive, Mordine & Company Dance Theatre, Thodos Dance Company, River North, Luna Negra, and Giordano. She has taught residencies at the invitation of Antares Danza Contemporeanea in Hermosillio, Mexico and recently taught at the International Dance Festival in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In addition to teaching Modern technique classes, Dardi also currently teaches Dance Pedagogy. Dardi has also taught several lecture classes at the Dance Center of Columbia College and has worked as a teacher with community outreach and arts integration.

JONATHAN MEYER A gymnast in high school, Jonathan Meyer discovered dance at Oberlin College in 1990. After a capoeira immersion in Brazil with Maestre Medicina, he returned to college to receive an undergraduate degree in dance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He spent time in Montreal, Utah, Amsterdam, and New York, alternating between the dance world and work with at-risk youth in wilderness therapy programs. In 2002 he founded Khecari in Taos, New Mexico, presenting eight major works before moving to Chicago in 2006. Shortly thereafter he began his intensive collaboration and partnership with Julia Rae Antonick, with whom he currently runs the company. Meyer has been a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist and has been an artist in residence at Djerassi and Ragdale Foundations and through LinkUp and DanceBridge in Chicago. Through Khecari he is currently in residence at Indian Boundary and Revere Parks in partnership with the Chicago Park District.