Urban Contemporary:: promo:: Emily Flynn | Music by Marian Hill
Urban Contemporary with
Emily Flynn
Thursdays 5:30-6:30pm (Teen
Youth)
6:30-8pm (
Adult)
@AcroSports, 639
Frederick St.
San Francisco
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Description :: In exploring ways to execute choreography, this class will integrate various dance techniques of modern, hip hop,
West African, and capoeira. Here you will gain strength and conditioning through exploring floor work, weight shifts, inversions, and footwork. Come experience a strong sense of physicality, rhythmic flow, and release.
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Biography :: Emily is an experienced performer, choreographer, and educator and is a prolific advocate for arts education in institutions of all kinds. After studying humanity from an anthropological perspective at
UCLA and multiple community colleges, coupled with her 12 years of dance training and several years of community organizing, Emily moved her theoretical investigations and practical applications into the somatic experience of the body and its dynamic relationship to nature and space. Emily completed her BA in
Performing Arts and
Social Justice with an emphasis in
Dance, at the
University of San Francisco in May
2015. She is working as a teacher’s assistant for
Professor Amie Dowling for the Performing Arts and
Community Exchange (
PACE) program at
USF, a course that takes place in
San Bruno’s
Jail #5 between USF students and incarcerated men ages 18-40. Emily also currently works as a dance and gymnastics coach (pre-k through adult) at AcroSports in San Francisco, a non-profit center for gymnastics, acrobatics, circus arts, and dance, and aspires to gear towards women’s healing and the community at large. She was the
Kathy A.
Gallagher Award recipient for Performing Arts and Social Justice at USF, and also completed a one-year internship with
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. From creating dances on landfills, rooftops, and in jails, her passion lies in the use of somatic education and performing arts as a creative outlet for finding balance, transformation, and personal agency; particularly with people in spaces that often feel voiceless, and or whose experiences largely go unnoticed.
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