In Sasha’s class, we will cultivate listening, curiosity, and expansion through process with ourselves, our connection with others, and our performance. A guided warmup, series of improvisational scores, and phrasework will challenge us to sink into and explore different dynamic choices, honing i...

In Aileen’s class we will focus on using dynamic movements and breathwork to guide us through a warm up coming in and out of the floor. Using principles from different contemporary and modern techniques to get us moving through the space. Playing with sequencing and directional changes the class ...

This class will explore improvisational tools in contemporary dance to create a state of being and presence within the dancer. Utilizing text, journaling, and varied somatic practices, we will find ways to build structure within improvisation, see patterns within chaos, and find new solutions to ...

This class will be a structured exploration drawing from multiple contemporary movement vocabularies. We will utilize concepts of spatial play and musical awareness through multiple contrasting phrases. Bring layers if desired as we will transition between floor and standing phrasework.

Together we will explore the nuances of partnering with people, objects, and stories. This class series draws on methodologies of contemporary dance, Latin dance, and physical theater.

The Relationship of Dance and Architecture: Embodied and Built Iterating through contemporary release based floor work we explore somatic and architectural design tools to deepen intention, placemaking and the felt experience. “Qualities of space, matter and scale are measured equally by the eye,...

The Countertechnique® class is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates and strengthens the body, making the dancer sweat, build stamina and really move.  The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique® principles in...

Welcome to Club Class-ics — where somatic meets sweaty, spirals meet beats, and dance floor freedom rules. We’ll warm up with Gyrotonic-inspired spirals, then crank the energy with heart-thumping improvisational scores, guided by iconic club hits and underground rhythms. Spiraling across the floo...

In Claire's series, we will begin with a warm-up focused on using breath and muscular coordination to condition, energize, and reinvigorate our bodies. We will dive into improvisational scores and phrase work with a focus on coming into and out of the floor honing our 360-degree expansive body, s...

Your body is not the same every day and this collab dance class allows students to delve deeper into how they engage with their bodies within dance. Perfectly incorporating the cross training dancers need to keep a long lasting career and a healthy body, so that the connections can be discovered ...

In Dara's series, we will generate heat together and then move through improvisational exercises designed to deepen the connection between brain and body. Phrasework will focus on internal and external initiation points and how we can use the edges of our kinesphere to fuel our movement. We will ...

Join Eva Sánchez Martz’s MIDDAY Pop-Up, a two-class workshop of Inertial Technology Applied to Dance and Q-Motion System on Saturday, January 10 @ 11-2pm. Details on each class below. Inertial Technology Applied to Dance: Saturday (1/10) @ 11:00-12:30 PM Intro to inertial sensors for choreographi...

Your body is not the same every day and this collab dance class allows students to delve deeper into how they engage with their bodies within dance. Perfectly incorporating the cross training dancers need to keep a long lasting career and a healthy body, so that the connections can be discovered ...

Led by Burr Johnson from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, this class engages dancers in the physical principles underlying Trisha Brown’s work. Emphasizing alignment, clarity, and kinetic ease, the class moves through repertory-based phrases that establish a shared movement language, which dancers...

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Join MIDDAY Movement Series for our 10 Year Anniversary Gala on Thursday, June 18th from 6:30-9:30 PM at the Crystal Ballroom in Davis Sq, Somerville. With the theme of "Feeling Fancy, Feeling Free," the evening will commemorate MIDDAY's decade-long successes in developing fertile ground for a ne...

MIDDAY Marketing Manager, Asia Pyron will lead a workshop in basic branding and marketing development for individual artists. Come explore design apps that make it easy to start finding a unique style to your work. We will also discuss how to network in a new community/city and maintaining relati...

Juliet's class begins with somatic centering and improvisational research. Through physical tasks, poetic language, and visualization, she introduces multi-faceted themes that carry improvisation into phrase work. Expect repetition, grounded floorwork, and rides through shifting momentum as you e...

Class will start with a guided improvisation to wake up, warm up, and establish our personal and communal whereabouts and intentions. Throughout the class series, exercises and prompts following the warmup will focus on; musicality, dynamic and spacial contrast, and physical storytelling. We will...

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COMING SOON!

Zaquia's class is aimed at supporting the development of dynamic and functional physicality through explorations of weight, momentum, attention, anatomy, and play. We'll use technical exercises, improvisation, phrase-work, and partnered feedback to probe beyond the mechanics, think critically abo...

This two-hour virtual workshop will cover some of the foundational aspects of touring dance projects. With strategies geared toward advanced-emerging through mid-career artists, some of the topics we will cover include: Resourceful touring strategies Networking and audience-building on the road T...

The Countertechnique® class is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates and strengthens the body, making the dancer sweat, build stamina and really move. The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique®principles in d...

WATERBENDING uses contemporary dance, martial arts, and meditation techniques to move through experiences of surrender, flow, fear, and dissolution by mimicry of water and its spiritual principles

Class is separated in sections starting with a follow along warm up with all dancers in a circle. We will progress to an across going from the group up, involving phrase work and improvisational scores. For the end of class we will focus on choreography integrating quick changes of weight, going ...

This class is interested in excess, fatigue, virtuosity, and care, leaning away from preciousness and leaning into curiosity and risk-taking. Through improvisatory explorations of conditioning and performance practice, participants are invited to approach class-taking as a creative process. Prepa...

Thank you for your interest in MIDDAY's Rough Drafts Informal Showing, featuring Mira Göksel. This showing will be held on Tuesday, May 5th, from 5:30-7:30 PM at SomArt at The Hive, 561 Windsor St, Somerville MA. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Registration is free but space is limited; pre-registration i...