Kelly's jazz/lyrical class

Kelly’s class begins with an intensive 50-minute warm-up that stresses the importance of having the students immediately connect to all the movements and not just see it as a mindless warm-up. She uses the Graham/Horton technique designed to strengthen and lengthen the dancer, followed by a semi-center ballet barre and isolations. She also leads the dancers with some across-the-floor basics that allow them to focus on the basics: perfecting their turns, travels and jumps. She then ends with floor stretches and a final boot camp of sit-ups and push-ups. Kelly aims to have her students feel strengthened and lengthened when leaving class while also having been able to work on their technique. While doing this, Kelly’s class also focuses making sure the students don’t just dance the choreography, but come from a performance aspect and connect to the movement as one whole motion and emotion, bringing the choreography to life for themselves and making it their own.