Professional Training Contemporary
Professional Training Contemporary
The training is led by Josh Johnson
This contemporary and improvisation dance class combines physical training, technique, and creative exploration.
The warm-up flows between calisthenics, tai chi–inspired movement, stretching, and ballet and modern dance techniques to build strength, mobility, coordination, and breath awareness. Technical work develops from the feet upward using exercises such as pliés, tendus, and core strengthening to support clarity and control. The class then moves into guided improvisation, exploring space through task-based movement, spatial grids, and musical response. The class concludes with learning and repeating a short choreographic phrase, with room for variation and individual expression.
What awaits you in this training (skills):
20% physical training
20% Improvisation strategy & task
20% Concentration & Spatial awareness
20% Composition
20% Fun
Josh Johnson
Josh Johnson (1987) is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles whose choreographic practice explores the space between post-contemporary dance and virtuosity. Rooted in a classical and neoclassical training, Josh Johnson’s work engages intensively with theory, structured improvisation and the concept of the score. With a focus on composition, Josh Johnson’s practice examines how physical technique, conceptual frameworks and historical forms can be newly recombined to create new languages of performance.
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Prices
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CHF 10 /
Season subscription: CHF 250
Duration:
1 hr 30 min
Language:
English
Our pro training is aimed at professional dancers who want to maintain and develop their level and technique. Please assess your own level before participating — this ensures the quality of the training, a professional environment, and helps prevent injuries. If participants lack the required competencies, we reserve the right to take action. Insurance is the responsibility of the participants.
Location
Tanzhaus Zürich
Room
Bühne 2
Wheelchair accessible
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