Contemporary Masterclass with Shelly
On the last Sunday of each month from 10:00 to 12:00 we can enjoy a master class in which We will work on freedom of movement and expression of emotions through the use of breath, gravity, suspension, moving off balance, falling and rebounding, organic spiral and your own creativity some classe will be focused in choreography, others more focused on technique.
It will be a class adapted to all levels for students from 12 years old
Price for MDS students: €15 Price for other students: €2
Shelly Loder is from America and has been choreographing, performing and teaching dance for over 25years. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance and Theatre Arts from San Jose State University under the mentorship of Jose Limon’s proteges Fred Mathews and Gary Masters of the Limon Dance Company. A recent returnee to the Costa after being back in the U.S.A., Shelly spent 8 years here, where she danced as a principal dancer and company class instructor with Diablos Contemporary Dance Co. She also taught contemporary/jazz at The Ballet Academy in Marbella run by Ballet Master Mohsen Eli-Wakil of the Cairo and Royal Ballet Companies. In addition she taught at the former Jayne Melville’s Performing Arts Academy as well as having her own private ballet and American jazz dance clients. Residing here gave her opportunites to choreograph/dance for professional venues including city events, galas and entertainment clubs as well as dance as a soloist in the production of The Rat Pack at the Torrequebrada Casino.
Over the years she has performed and toured works by Jose Limon, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey and Nikolais and Louis to name a few, as well as set her own work on various independent companies throughout California, and New York. Shelly has danced with both the San Francisco Opera and Opera San Jose in roles from La Boheme, The Magic Flute, The Pearl Fishers, and the world premiere of Roumanis’ Phaedra. Other credits include being an opener for former Saturday Night Live cast member Dana Carvey, touring the role of “Frenchy” in Grease, performance artist and choreographer for the Magic Theatre and Footwork in San Francisco, and choreographer for the great American composer Lou Harrison.She has also trained with modern dance pioneer Murray Louis, Jody White, David Roxander and Sabina Alleman of the National Ballet of Canada, Marge Champion from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Joe Goode, and tap virtuoso Sam Weber to name a few.
In the last ten years Shelly has taken time to follow a deeper study of her yoga practice. She is a EYT-500 and teaches a variety of styles from Vinyasa Flow to Yin and Restorative Yoga. Shelly was also the first in the U.S. to be certified in Neurogenic Yoga—a therapeutic modality that uses yoga postures and neurogenic tremoring to release stress and/or built up trauma stored in the body. She is certified in Neurogenic Yoga’s sister modality TRE(tension/trauma releasing exercises) as well. She shares this yoga training with the dance world by teaching ‘yoga for dancers’ to help strengthen and further develop a dancer’s training and understanding of the body and alignment to prevent injury, as well as increase breath capacity and control, and to release overworked muscles through Neurogenic tremoring.