Contemporary movement practice
Ori Flomin’s class encourages students to increase their movement possibilities and take risks in dancing by maximising the benefits of the warmed-up body. The warm-up moves smoothly from floor to standing with a strong focus on anatomy to strengthen connections of correct alignment with increased fluidity in the joints. Dancers will develop an understanding of the connections between their body and the floor and will learn how to use momentum and breath to explore full dancing with the least amount of muscular tension. During phrase work, dancers will learn how to incorporate information from the warm-up to execute more complicated sequences. Attention will be paid to controlling the use of breath to maintain a strong centre from which one can explode into space.
Ori Flomin is known to approach his class as a dialogue with the dancers. He uses imagery and humour to allow the dancers to relate personally to the given material and find their own voice through the experience in class.
has been dancing, living, surviving, and thriving in NYC since 1989. He holds an MFA in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. His choreography has been presented at various NYC venues and internationally in Europe, Israel, Japan, and Australia. His teachings of dance, yoga and shiatsu massage have taken him around the globe to prestigious international festivals, schools, and colleges around NYC: P.A.R.T.S., Impulstanz, London Contemporary School, Sasha Waltz, NYU and Movement Research, to name a few. He’s performed in the works of acclaimed choreographers Stephen Petronio, Maria Hassabi, and Neil Greenberg, a. o. Since Covid-19, he has presented dance films through online platforms and developed his DIY Shiatsu practice. He is a 2022–23 recipient of the Gibney Dance in Process (DIP) Residency.