Private Dance Lessons

$200/hour*

*Details:

  • Free consult: We can hop on a 15-minute call to discuss your goals and if this feels like a good fit for you.

  • Semi-privates: You might choose to find a friend and make it a semi-private at no additional cost.

  • Work-trade: Get in touch if you’re interested in work trade in researching workshop venues/teaching opportunities, video, administration, or marketing.

  • Resources: You will receive a message after session with a brief reflection and resources to support your continued practice.

  • Space: This cost includes space rental.

Email me at sbeahrs@gmail.com to schedule or inquire.

Overview:

If you find yourself longing for a deeper kind of support in your dance journey, I’d love to support you. Private lessons are an opportunity for individuals looking to deepen their personal dance and movement practice. Beginners and intermediate dancers very welcome. Each session will be created in partnership with you to support your connection to yourself and growth as a mover. We might draw on contemporary technique, embodiment practices, improvisation, contact improvisation, authentic movement, conditioning, and mindfulness practices. You might also choose to receive:

  • Personalized movement and mindfulness practices that you can do on your own, at home, outdoors, etc

  • Guidance on working with your body in a way that is caring for and responsive to what feels present for you, including pain, injuries, and limitations

  • Coaching on your own choreography or improvisation practice, including preparation for performance

More about my approach:

Balancing guidance + tenderness Often I meet dancers who are looking for a balance from their dance teachers— they want training, information, and guidance, and crave receiving that instruction with the tenderness that expressing ourselves through our bodies deserves. Of course being seen in movement is vulnerable work— mental habits, body patterns, and past experiences contribute to our experience in our bodies. Simply by its nature of being in the body, dancing asks us to meet ourselves on multiple levels. Caring for our bodies through movement— even existing in our bodies without experiencing undue physical or mental distress— can seem a bit daunting or hard to access. It might be something we haven’t yet experienced. Because much of what I’ve learned was hard-earned,* I will be explicit and specific about ways to be with yourself and make choices through a lens of self love. I’ve seen how this approach supports deep growth that extends beyond a person’s dance practice into a sense of having grown into themselves.

For You I’d like to hear about your present experience of dancing and your goals. Wherever you’re at, I’d love to meet you there and accompany you at a pace that works for you. If we work together, I will give you my presence, expertise, and care during our sessions. Between sessions, I will put my heart into reflecting what I’ve heard from you, and imagining what tools, practices, and open-ended questions I can offer that will be supportive to you. My goal is to provide you with scaffolding so that you are empowered as a kind, loving teacher of yourself, actively in the practice of being both the giver and receiver of care through your dancing. Dance is present, intimate, and entirely yours. As such, it has incredible potential for you to express and connect with yourself. For you to grow in skills like stamina, coordination, strength and flexibility, and even your sense of your very being and any given moment - orientation, connection to the ground, awareness of temperature, texture, pressure, vibrations, sights, sounds, and the energy of other people. There is so, so much to learn (and there always will be— yay!).

*My journey While I have 33 years of dance experience and have learned from countless amazing teachers who inform my teaching, I consider myself a late bloomer— my early years included passion and affinity marbled with pain, self doubt, and shame— I used to say dance was my lover who didn’t love me back. Now, I am grateful and proud of my relationship with dance, which feels like one of mutual devotion. Movement flows through me and I receive pleasure and care from it. I savor the power and potency of dancing in this way and honor how difficult the road has been- of learning how to learn to dance. I know how painful it can be for freedom of movement to feel elusive despite wanting it more than anything, and I am eager and honored to share what I’ve learned with you.

Modalities:

Contemporary/Modern

Contact Improvisation

Improvisation

Embodiment Practices*

*learn anatomy and efficient pathways to support easeful shoulders, a sense of wholeness and fluidity in the whole body, suppleness in the feet, etc.