Join Navarra in this contemporary dance workshop in collaboration with Livable Futures.

The workshop begins with an emphasis on listening to the individual body, exploring a full range of physical sensations, rhythms, and efforts. We then move into an awareness of our collective body in space. Through structured play and improvisation, we uncover a movement landscape that is entirely unique to this space, in this moment, with these people.

Navarra encourages participants to trust the unique physical wisdom contained in each body while approaching the body with an honest curiosity for yet undiscovered potentials for movement. Participants are given an opportunity to transfer the tasks of generating and remembering from their minds to their bodies, dancing together and making space for surprise and delight.

Navarra's workshops are grounded in open dialogue and shared experiences and draw from Navarra’s experience in Gaga, improvisational theater, classical dance training, and years of work with inspiring movers of all ages and backgrounds. She is thrilled to be invited into the communities at Flux + Flow and Livable Futures.

This class is donation based! Pay what you can and the proceeds will support Flux+Flow as a space where all are welcome.

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Biography

Navarra Novy-Williams is a New York City based dance artist. She teaches Gaga, ballet, and movement improvisation across the United States, including at the Juilliard School, NYU, SUNY Purchase, Movement Invention Project, MOVE(NYC), New Dialect, The Performing Arts Project, Dance Project of Washington Heights, and Dances for a Variable Population.

Navarra's professional dance experience includes Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the Batsheva Ensemble, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Richard Seigal's Ballet of Difference. She has collaborated on the original creations: Watch, with The Arias Company; Clear&Sweet and Always Now, with zoe|juniper; and Orpheus Unsung, by Steven Mackey and directed by Mark DeChiazza. She recently performed in Romeo Castellucci’s Democracy in America. She dances with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and has worked with Manuel Vignoulle, the Francesca Harper Project, and Mary John Frank.

She graduated from the Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance in 2006 and holds a master’s in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the New School.