"Every season your body can do something it couldn't do three months ago."
Miriam Okonkwo·Founding Artistic Director, Barre Studio
Teaching in this warehouse for eleven years. Watching the afternoon light move across the marley floor since the day we opened.
Use the sidebar to navigate by discipline — or scroll through each instructor's seasonal curriculum in order. The spring schedule opens for enrollment March 1, 2026.
Miriam Okonkwo
Ballet Master & Founding Artistic Director
Children's bodies are still learning what 'straight' means. My job in the spring session isn't to make perfect dancers — it's to make children who understand their own limbs.
The spring beginner session runs eight weeks, and I structure it so the first three weeks are entirely about listening. Listening to the piano. Listening to their feet on the floor. By week four, when we introduce the barre properly, they already know what they're reaching for.
Parents often ask me: 'Is my four-year-old too young?' My answer is always the same — if they can follow a story, they can follow a class. We work in imagery. The arms are wings. The spine is a string being pulled gently toward the ceiling. Nothing is forced. Everything is invited.
What a child gains in eight weeks isn't a syllabus. It's a relationship with their own body — a sense that movement can be intentional, that the body is worth paying attention to. That's the foundation everything else is built on.
Enrollment opens March 1 · Class sizes limited to 12 students
Rafael Díaz-Morales
Contemporary Choreographer & Lead Instructor
Most adults who walk in here haven't moved intentionally in years. The intensive isn't about catching up — it's about finding out what your body already knows and what it's been quietly waiting to say.
Week one is floor work. Always. I need to know how someone relates to gravity before I can ask them to defy it. We spend the first Tuesday evening rolling, breathing, feeling the weight of our own bones. By Friday of that same week, people are moving in ways they couldn't have described when they arrived.
Week two introduces standing phrase work — sequences that build on what we found on the floor. Week three is when we begin working with a partner. Week four is the full composition, where each person brings something they've developed and we make something together from it.
I teach adults specifically because adult bodies carry history. A retired teacher moves differently than a college student, and both of those differences are interesting to me. Nobody is behind. Nobody is ahead. We're all just discovering what this particular body can do in this particular season.
Enrollment opens March 1 · Class sizes limited to 12 students
Janelle Watkins
Hip-Hop Instructor & Showcase Director
People come to my beginner class thinking they need to already look like they know what they're doing. I need them to arrive ready to look like they don't — because that's where all the good stuff lives.
The summer showcase class is eight weeks with a performance at the end — a real one, in the main space, with the lights on. I tell every beginner this upfront, and I watch their faces. Some get nervous. Those are usually the ones who surprise everyone by week six.
Hip-hop has a vocabulary, and I teach it seriously. Popping, locking, breaking fundamentals, freestyle structure — we cover all of it. But vocabulary without context is just vocabulary. So we also talk about where these movements come from, what they mean, why they matter. That's not optional. That's the class.
College students love this format because there's no judgment in the room — I make sure of that on day one. We have ten-year-olds and sixty-year-olds in the same session sometimes, and that's exactly the point. The showcase at the end of August is the best night of our year. Every single time.
Enrollment opens March 1 · Class sizes limited to 12 students
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