Join Us for a Contact Improv Workshop this Weekend, led by Erica Essner!
Published November 2nd, 2009
Join us this Saturday, November 7, 2009, from 4:15pm – 7:15pm when Sangha member, Erica Essner, will be leading an improvisation workshop at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. This fun class is all about dancing with others while exploring your own movement vocabulary, including muscular release techniques, Pilates and assisted stretching. All levels of dance experience are welcome, including none!
Space is limited so please sign up by emailing via our contact for here and sending a check to Brooklyn Zen Center, 398 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Sign up soon if you are interested. The cost for the workshop is $20 and all proceeds will go to meeting our matching grant for the Brooklyn Zen Center move.
About Erica:
Choreographer and dancer Erica Essner has presented her work in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. Originally from New York, she studied Dance Composition at Bard College and received her B.A. in Art & Social Change from New College in San Francisco.
She has studied Dance/Performance at the graduate level at Mills College and has trained in dance with: the Merce Cunningham Foundation; NY Academy of Ballet; Alonzo King; Arturo Fernandez, Clark Center NY; Aaron Osborne; the New York School of Ballet; Margaret Jenkins; Ellie Klopp; Janice Garrett; and Joe Goode. She has been resident choreographer for San Francisco State University, participating in the American College Dance Festival in 1998 and San Jose State University.
She currently directs a Pilate’s program for teachers with an emphasis in rehabilitation for dancers.
For more information about Erica Essner and her work, please click here.

