DANCE & Movement CLASSES
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Dance: All beginners can start with Bellydance 1 -- no other prerequisites required! Classes are drop-in friendly, so you can start any week.
Floor/movement: All classes in this category are beginner-friendly and cater to all levels of experience.
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Bellydance:
Dress comfortably for movement. Most dance students wear leggings or pantaloons and a tight-fitting top. Showing midriff is not required.
For intermediate and advanced dance students: please wear a skirt and choli top to class, with optional tank top being form-fitting.
Floor/movement:
Movement: For hand balancing, flexibility, and other floor classes, dress as you would for a yoga or fitness class. Please consider how your clothing will feel/react when you invert for hand balancing.
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All weekly classes are drop-in friendly. We have drop-in, punchcard, and membership options. See all pricing here.
Bellydance 1: Fatchance style® Basics
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FCBD Style® is an improvisational (choreography-free!) style of belly dance that incorporates elements of Egyptian, Indian, flamenco, and other traditional dances from around the globe. The FCBD Style® system uses a standardized “vocabulary” of dance movements with built in cues and transitions that make it possible for dancers to improvise together in set formations. Students in Level 1 learn the foundational vocabulary and posture and practice following a leader in formation.
No bellydance experience necessary. Beginners welcome!
Bellydance 2: fcbd® Intermediate
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This intermediate FCBD Style® class builds on the foundations of Level 1. With a much larger vocabulary of movement, Level 2 spans two 8-week sessions and covers intermediate improvisational dance skills such as leading/following and dancing with a large group (chorus). At least two sessions of Level 1 and prior discussion with instructor required for admittance.
Bellydance 3: fcbd® advanced
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This level 3 class includes advanced FCBD Style® steps and combinations, dialect steps, prop work, and floor work. With a strong emphasis on advanced technique in movement, formations, leading, and performance readiness, this class requires mastery of level one and two concepts as well as permission from the instructor.
hand balancing
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This class is designed with your practice objective in mind. We will have a strong emphasis on the proper form, technique, flexibility training, injury prevention with proper engagement, and strength building skills to get you to your goals!
Don't have a handstand yet? Want to improve on your current progress? This is the perfect class for you.
Instruction will include the very basic skills necessary for body control, with information on how the hips and shoulders work in unison for this skill.
No experience necessary. Open to students across main disciplines.
Note: This class is drop-in friendly, but more progress will be made by attending weekly.
All classes at Coil are age 14+ unless otherwise noted.
backbends
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In this class, we will break down the necessary components of back bending. We will explore flexibility, strength, alignment, and transitions, all with back bending in mind. No experience necessary. Open to students across main disciplines. Note: This class is drop-in friendly, but more progress will be made by attending weekly.
Unless otherwise noted, all regular classes at Coil are age 14+.
Floor & Flexibility
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This class is designed to improve the strength and flexibility of hip movements, splits, shoulders, and spine through an alternating focus each week.
Our splits and hips classes will have both active and passive flexibility training for side and center splits. On alternating weeks, we will be focusing on opening the shoulders, hand balancing training, and backbends.
This is a wonderful class to take to improve your range of motion and allow for better, more functional movement.
This class is perfectly complemented by other weekly offerings: Check our schedule for handbalancing, yoga & flexibility, acro yoga, and backbends classes!
Unless otherwise noted, all classes at Coil are age 14+.