Year-long Composition LAB with Mary Armentrout 2026-27
Dance Composition with Mary Armentrout
Produced by Mary Armentrout Dance Theater, in partnership with Danspace
Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm at The Milkbar in Richmond
To Register: email ma@maryarmentroutdancetheater.com
An opportunity for emerging choreographers everywhere!
Session 1: October 5 to December 14, 2026 – no class on 11/23
10 classes
Session 2: January 25 to May 17, 2027
17 weeks
Informal showing at The Milkbar in the spring, exact Date and Time TBD – estimate the weekend of May 24
Class Description
This class is a combination of class/lab time, independent rehearsal time, and feedback time, with an informal showing in the spring. The fall session is more of a dance creation lab, working on small studies to expand your range and experience in creating successful movement ideas. The spring is more focused on creating a short finished dance work on a topic that interests you, culminating in the showing at the end of the session. You will be guided by instructor Mary Armentrout, an award winning, internationally acclaimed choreographer. This class is open to teens and adults – choreographic experience is not required, but always a plus, interest in learning how we can put movements together to express our inner ideas is what’s needed!
Mary Armentrout is a teacher, choreographer, dancer, and Feldenkrais Practitioner, and the director of the Mary Armentrout Dance Theater (MADT). Starting to dance at age three, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Working across disciplines, her experimental choreographic works attempt to viscerally engage and complicate aspects of intentionality, presence, identity, and being-in-the-world for her audiences, and recently garnered an Isadora Duncan Dance Award and an EMPAC commission. Her work has been presented at numerous venues all over the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as across the US and the UK, Europe, and China, recently touring to universities across the US and the UK, as well as to festivals including the Brighton Fringe and the San Francisco International Arts Festival. She has been puzzling over the question of “what is dance” for the last 50+ years, and welcomes others into the conversation.
