Hyper Body!

Course Description

Summary

This Beginner level course is designed and recommended for students with prior dance experience or equivalent training in any form of physical expression.

The aim is to encounter the inner energy and passion that dance evokes from within the body, alongside the choreographic language of Trisha Brown, which is rooted in neutrality and free from unnecessary movement. While these two directions may seem opposite, early recordings of Trisha Brown suggest a fascinating fusion of both qualities.

Class activities begin with body-balancing exercises on the floor, including Pilates and stretching. This is followed by “Kota-style Zumba,” which blends Latin music and global rhythms such as salsa, merengue, reggaeton, cumbia, and hip hop, infused with Kota’s playful movement vocabulary. From there, students explore release technique in floorwork—focusing on tactile awareness and momentum generated through gravity.

In center exercises, students work with phrases that encourage the discovery of natural movement qualities without excessive physical tension. By experiencing multiple directions of the body, the class expands perspectives on dance and fosters a sense of “release”—a feeling rarely achieved in daily life—while celebrating the joy of movement. In addition, students will learn signature phrases from renowned choreographers.

Through exposure to diverse movement languages, rhythms, and flows, the class cultivates physical ability, coordination, spatial awareness, phrase acquisition, and bodily logic, deepening the process of “learning through the body.”

This course welcomes participants who wish to re-nurture, re-energize, enhance, deepen, expand, develop, or even break through their relationship with their own bodies, and who are committed to ongoing physical learning.