Community Contemporary Repertory Experience

Community Contemporary is an opportunity for all levels of movers to dive into improvisation, technique, and play while fostering relationships new and old, thus creating and/or expanding their creative community. If you are looking for a supportive environment to animate and excite the tiny inner child dancer within you: this class is it, regardless of your prior experience with dance.

THE REPERTORY EXPERIENCE

Commit to a full seven weeks of class and rehearsals, and have the chance to perform in three shows alongside professional dancers and pre-professional youth at développé’s “Moving Towards March”. This class and performance experience will be led by Angelina Benitez.

In this rep experience, we’ll ask ourselves: what is it like to exist in the middleground? Neither here nor there, but somewhere in between. Our 5th Rep Experience will explore this theme through choreography by Angie Benitez, improvisational prompts, and, if the group is up to it, some weight-sharing explorations. This may include beginner counter balances, beginner lifts, and partner choreography. Angie understands this is challenging and requires building lots of trust. There will always be the opportunity to opt in/out. 

SCHEDULE

Thursday, January 8 | Closed Class for Rep Experience Only, 6:30-9PM

Thursday, January 15 | Rehearsal 8-8:30pm

Thursday, January 22 | Rehearsal 8-8:30pm

Thursday, January 29 | Rehearsal 8-8:30pm

Thursday, February 5 | Rehearsal 8-9pm

Thursday, February 12 | Rehearsal 8-9pm

Thursday, February 19 | Closed Class for Rep Experience Only, 6:30-8pm

*Unless otherwise noted, the above rehearsal times follow regularly scheduled open class from 6:30-8. Participants are expected to take class prior to rehearsal; the class fee is included in Rep Experience tuition. These rehearsals are currently expected to take place at The Dance Complex. Any change in location will be communicated with ample notice.

Technical and Dress Rehearsal at The Foundry:

Thursday, February 26 | 4:45pm-8pm

Cue to Cue: 5-5:30pm

Dress Rehearsal: 6pm

Performances at The Foundry:

Friday, February 27 @ 7pm (Call 5pm)

Saturday, February 28 @ 3pm (Call 1pm)

Saturday, February 28 @ 7pm (Call 5:30pm)

Please note this registration page is only for the Repertory Experience. If you wish to register as a drop in student for class only, .

CLASS POLICIES

Registration in advance is required.

We do not offer refunds or transfers for this class. Please be sure about your availability and desire to participate prior to registering.

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About the Instructor:

Angelina Benitez, also known as she moves + makes, is inspired by play, poetry, queerness, engaging the senses, and her nonbinary, biracial life experience. They are a dedicated teaching artist to movers of all ages and experiences in the Greater Boston area; from toddlers, to families, to professionals, to seniors. This 2025 Next Steps for Boston Dance grantee graduated from Salem State University in 2018 with a B.A in Modern/Contemporary Dance and has returned there as a guest artist in residence. She is a company member of Human Movement Project, vital team member at High Street Studios in Ipswich, a co-founding member of a contemporary dance collective, The Click, and recently, a teacher for TransDans. She has shared her work at VERSE / VISUAL, Human Movement Lab, Dancing Queerly, Salem Arts Festival, 24 Hour ChoreoFest, Roots and Routes, and more.  Stay in touch with their work or find ways to get involved @shemovesandmakes on Instagram.

About The Click:

Developed in 2021, The Click is a collaborative dance company and creative collective in Greater Boston. Its members are dancers whose primary medium of physical expression is through contemporary dance forms, but who experiment in many modes and genres of creativity. As a collective, The Click’s members are each deeply invested in answering the universally complex question: who am I and what am I doing here?

The Click contributes to the consistent presence of creativity in Boston and beyond in several ways: by educating pre-professional youth dancers, professional adult dancers and the dance-curious of any age; performing original creations several times a year at traditional and non-traditional venues across Massachusetts, New England and beyond; and by investing in the curiosity of those new to dance in Boston or new to dance in general by maintaining an open, inclusive and accessible community.

Follow us on Instagram: @the.click.boston

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