Margi Cole’s technique class is designed to emphasize conditioning, coordination, alignment, clarity, rhythm, and artistry. All of this is best achieved through and with honest effort.
"Informed by my training in classical ballet, Limon, Cunningham, Graham and release based technique it is what I call the “Margi Style”. Class starts on the floor and continues with exercises standing and moving across the floor. The class is designed around an infrastructure of principles that include articulation of the spine, finding the supporting leg, dropping your weight, changing direction, falling through space and efficiently moving in and out of the floor. These ideas are then further supported by the use of mixed rhythms, strong imagery and a desire to find the spaces in between really specific forms, which is where I feel the real 'dancing' is happening."
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Margi Cole is the founder and Artistic Director of The Dance COLEctive, and received a BA in dance from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught for several educational and professional organizations nationally and internationally and performed with many well-known choreographers and companies. In 2011, Cole participated in the Deborah Hay Solo Commissioning Project. Margi has received two Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships, a 2005 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award, two Individual Arts Program Creative Project Grants from Chicago’s DCASE, an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship and, most recently, a 2018 Art Omi Dance Residency.
