Nejla Yatkin’s Mosaic class begins with a thorough warm-up focused on strengthening, lengthening, and preparing the body for an investigation of movement possibilities. With a weighted approach, students explore exercises that redirect momentum in and out of the floor and up into the air. This cultivates a sense of ease that allows for an alert dancer, conscious of the body’s architecture in off-balance, explosive, and suspended three-dimensional situations. Students also tackle improvisational problems, often using partnered work in dialogue with set phrasework to encourage spatially aware intuitive choice-making. At the base of this class is a joy of movement captured in a final dance that is a complex play of full-bodied potential through space. For more information visit www.ny2dance.com