Shamel Pitts
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Morning classes - Gaga/dancers
Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The classes are built on the same principles as Gaga/people classes but also employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge. The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities.
Shamel Pitts
TRIBE
Morning classes
June 12 to June 16
9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
(6,25 hours)
Wilder Building
Studio: to be confirmed
Pricing and
Registration
DAC pro - $ 57 ($9 / hr)
Standard- $ 94 ($15 / hr)
Shamel Pitts
Shamel Pitts is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, as well as performance, conceptual , and spoken word artist. Since 2019, he is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE, a New York-based multidisciplinary arts collective which was a 2020-21 Artist-In-Residence at 92Y Harkness Dance Center.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Shamel began his dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School, followed by receiving his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for 7 years, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin and is a certified teacher of Gaga movement language.
He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography, and a 2020 Jacob’s Pillow artist in residence, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and the cast member of the 2021 Bessie Award-winning production of “The Motherboard Suite” at New York Live Arts . He is an adjunct at The Juilliard School and has been an artist in residence at Harvard University.