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SPECIAL EDITION
FREE Community Class with Chicago Live!
Wednesday, Sept 9 at The Rooted Space
1:30 - 3pm
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Join us for a free 90-minute community dance class led by choreographer Kara Hunsinger. This open class offers participants the opportunity to experience Kara’s creative process while learning movement from her original work created especially for Chicago Live!
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The class will begin with a somatic warm up to awaken breath, sensation, and full-body awareness. From there, participants will learn an excerpt of Kara’s choreography for Chicago Live, exploring musicality, movement quality, and intention through guided instruction. Throughout the class, the emphasis is on building confidence in movement choices, strengthening trust in one’s intuition, and creating space for each dancer to discover and embody their unique artistic voice.
This class is free and open to dancers of all experience levels. Whether you’re new to dance or a seasoned mover, all are welcome to join, explore, and create in a supportive community environment.
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Chicago Live! at
Navy Pier
Saturday, September 19
3pm at East Stage (end of the Pier)
Free!​​
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Chicago Live Festival is the Midwest’s largest free performing arts festival, showcasing the best of Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene at Navy Pier. Come see Little Fire Artist Collective perform Hanna DiLorenzo's Where Absence Grows and the premiere of Kara Hunsinger's Tethered Roots.
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August Community Class
Friday, August 7
​12:45 pm at The Rooted Space
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Come take class with LFAC dancer, Hanna DiLorenzo!
This 1.5hr contemporary dance class will begin with structured improvisation to activate the body, tap into instinct, and explore movement ideas. The second half of class will be exploring one of our rep pieces “Where Absence Grows” choreographed by Hanna.
This piece will appear this coming September at Navy Pier Chicago Live!
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July Community Class
Sunday, July 26
​12:45 pm at The Rooted Space
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Come take class with LFAC dancer, Celine Spinka-O'Brien!
This 1 hour and 15 min class will be an open-level jazz class built to make you move! This class is your early 00s jazz technique class all grown up.
Class will begin with a full body warm up focusing on isolation and precision, followed by stretching, across the floor, and culminating with a combo. Expect joy and good music!
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June Community Class
Friday, June 26
​12:45 pm at The Rooted Space
Free!
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What to expect?
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Come take class with LFAC dancer, Faith Balderrama!
This 1.5hr Countertechnique® class is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates and strengthens the body, making dancers sweat, build stamina and really move. ​The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique® principles in detail. The second half of the class consist of varied components, working towards luscious movement combinations, and sometimes including jumping at the end.
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The Countertechnique® class results in dancers using more efficient energy, losing their fear of taking risks and gaining speed in both leel and directional changes.
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Creative Process
with Kara Hunsinger
Little Fire Artist Collective member, Kara Hunsinger, will be creating a new work on the collective.
Come see the premiere of Kara's newest work later this summer!
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May Community Class
Friday, May 29
​12:45 pm at The Rooted Space
Free!
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What to expect?
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Come take class with LFAC dancer, Nia Montgomery!
This is an 1.5hr open level class built to center dancers in the space as they connect their physical and emotional selves.
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Class will start with a full-body warm up, followed by improv prompts, then a movement phrase. Expect to dive into elements such as rhythm, groundedness, and angular shapes, recognizing our internal response to our exploration.
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By the end of class, dancers use the information learned to inform their movement with a unique physical representation of their emotional selves.
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April Community Class
Monday, April 20
​12:15 pm at The Rooted Space
Free!
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What to expect?
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Come take class with LFAC dancer, Kara Hunsinger!
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This class begins with a somatic warm up to awaken breath, sensation, and full-body awareness. You will then transition into guided improvisation, with clear compositional tools to explore impulse, choice, and dynamic range. ​ Finally, class will end with a phrase that serves as a flexible framework, inviting dancers to reshape and personalize the material through improvisational tools.
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The focus of class will be on strengthening confidence in decision-making and deepening trust in intuition - supporting each dancer in discovering and embodying their unique artistic voice.
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Class is open to all levels!​​
