This month’s series is in partnership with the Penny Godboldo Institute
Special Workshop
Donation – $10-25

Intermediate beginning/intermediate Dunham Technique class focused on Katherine Dunham’s original choreography. Students will learn movement vocabulary from Dunham’s original work and learn about the lived performance histories of dancers and performers of the work.

Saroya Corbett is a certified Dunham Technique instructor and has a masters in fine arts degree in dance from Temple University. Her dance ability can be attributed to being well trained under professionals like Katherine Dunham, Vanoye Aikens, Glory Van Scott, Tommy Gomez, Ruby Streate, and Kariamu Welsh. Throughout Saroya’s performing career, she has performed with  dance companies, Kariamu & Company and Flyground, and presented her own work through Saroya Corbett Dance Projects. In 2014, Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches was released by the University Press of Florida, which included Saroya as a chapter author. She serves as the history and theory chair for the Institute for Dunham Technique Certification and she serves on the steering committee for the Coalition Diasporan Scholars Moving (CDSM).

HEATHER BEAL, received her B.A. in dance from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in dance from Washington University in St. Louis.  She is a certified Dunham Technique instructor and was a principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham Museum Children’s Workshop Performance Company from the age of six into young adulthood. She performed with the company around the United States and France. She has also performed in many productions at The Black Rep and several productions at the St. Louis MUNY.  Her Black Rep credits include ”Nina Simone: Four Woman,” ”Purlie,” “The Me Nobody Knows,” “Le Freak C’est Chic,” “DreamGirls.” Theatre credits include ”Ghost” (Metro Theatre), and ”Feeding Beatrice” (The Rep). College credits include: “For Colored Girls… ”(Washington University), “Little Shop of Horrors” and ”First Date” (University of Southern Indiana).  She is best known for her work #triggerwarning and Black AF, a dance critique of police brutality against Black people in America.