ABOUT AMY COVA

Amy Cova, (MFA in Dance, U of M) is Artistic Director of Amy Cova Dance (ACD), contemporary dance ensemble splitting time between NYC and Michigan, often working in collaboration with musicians, composers and visual artists. Cova is the Performing Arts Coordinator and Dance Faculty at The Roeper School (MI) and a Facilitator for The Field (NYC). Cova is interested in embodied text, oral histories, subjugated knowledge and personal reflections as they dialogue through evocative movement languages.

Amy Cova has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out, and throughout NYC at Dance New Amsterdam, the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, The Flea Theatre, The Irondale Center and The Room Project (Detroit). Her work has been showcased at the Alvin Ailey Studio Theater, The Alchemical Theater Laboratory, the John Ryan Theater, Studio AIR, Dixon Place, Spoke the Hub, the Green Space, Grand Rapids Ballet, Wealthy Street Theater, and the Detroit Institute of Art. Her choreography has been presented internationally in Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica and Italy.

ABOUT THE CLASS

class inspiration: sustainable virtuosity

we will:

surrender to gravity, weight and momentum

fall, fly and invert with easeplay ride wavesexplore pathways that promote sustainability/wellness in physical bodygive attention to breath cultivate organic virtuosity through soft strength
find sweetness in joints, release of muscletrust in body's structure and historyembrace fire, joy, endorphins

lean into our authentic dancing self