Workshops & Intensives
Stephanie Saland is available for workshops, intensives, personal consultations, coaching and mentoring. Note: Workshops & Intensives are currently available in person and via Zoom. Please contact Stephanie for inquires and request for dates and duration.
Statement on Workshops and Intensives:
Stephanie Saland is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet under the direction of George Balanchine. Her instruction revisits the ballet vocabulary in an ever changing, playful and porous investigation. Students work alongside with Ms. Saland and create tasks and use unique images, which aid in understanding anatomy in motion. The lessons evolve around a rich spatial and textural approach, using tools which encourage curiosity and risk. Sequences are patterned structurally and musically to awaken and maintain a taste for lush and precise articulation. Many of the exercises are woven with the inventive work of Eva Nemeth as well as aspects from Qi Gong, Body Balancing and Gyrotonics. These influences offer quick shifts and expansion as focus and intention are honed.
A Testimonial to the effectiveness of the technique -
for the curious…
“STEPHANIE HELPS ME UNDERSTAND BODY-MECHANICS AS RELATIONAL. IN HER CLASS, I START TO MOVE AND THINK AS A FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON, RATHER THAN AS AN ASSEMBLY OF CLUTCHED PARTS AND DISEMBODIED LEVERS. SHE IS EQUALLY ATTUNED TO THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ARTISTRY OF DANCE, AND DELIBERATELY CREATES A POTENT EXPLORATORY TEACHING SPACE, OPEN TO EVERY PERSON’S INTROSPECTIVE DISCLOSURES. I NOT ONLY FEEL PERMITTED TO ACT FROM MY INNER MOTIVATIONS IN HER CLASS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I FEEL SAFE TO ATTEND TO THE QUESTIONS AND CURIOSITIES THAT COME UP FOR ME.”