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Fostering a sustainable ecosystem for contemporary dance in Nashville since 2013
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Fall 2026 Community Classes

attune your mind, strengthen your body, deepen your practice, and grow your community ✨

September 21 - November 18
Mondays + Wednesdays
9:30 - 10:30 AM & 10:35 - 12 PM
Morgan Park Recreation Center

🚨 Special workshop with @ubwdance on Thursday, 10/15

swipe ➡️ to see our expanded offerings, weekly schedules, location, and our incredible line up of artists ✨

walk ups are always welcome

#newdialects #nashville #dancecommunity

big thanks to @tnartscommission @metroartsnash @neaarts + @metrodancenashville for your support. taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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17 days ago

📣 The future is taking shape at OZ Arts! This season, visionary artists from seven countries invite us to imagine what's possible through bold performances that challenge assumptions, celebrate resilience, and reveal new ways of seeing the world.

Announcing the 2026-27 Season:
Oct 23 & 24 | @ka__leila: Triptyque
Nov 14 & 15 | @kedagoro: The Age is Yours, My Liege!
Dec 4 & 5 | @dahlak_leon: @trysteptrip
Dec 18 & 19 | @portaraensemble, @jeffcoffin, @cionar, @di_mossa: The Longest Night
Jan 29 & 30 | @cosme__castro & @oscaritocastro: Cuervo
Mar 18-20 | @new_dialect & @cionar: DECLARATION
Apr 9 & 10 | @rosasdance: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Radouan Mriziga (@_a7la5_)
Apr 30 & May 1 | @marianopensotti: La Obra (The Play)
May 20-22 | Brave New Works Lab (artist applications open through Oct 1)

🎟️ Tickets and packages on sale now at ozartsnashville.org. by @new_dialect

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2 months ago

We had an extraordinary time premiering Echo Mother last weekend.

Heartfelt thanks to our friends at @stewartowendance + @worthamarts for the invitation to share with your communities in Asheville and to @southartsorg @bastionnashville and @metrodancenashville for your support. ✨

Echo Mother
Choreography @banningbouldin
Performers @banningbouldin + @phyliciaroybal
Assistant + collaborator @madison_brott
Lighting + production Josh Weckesser
Wardrobe @victoria.bek
Produced by @stewartowendance @worthamarts with major funding support from @southartsorg @neaarts

📸 @tanjakuic taken in Wortham Center for the Performing Arts by @new_dialect

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5 months ago

Introducing Community Class teaching artist LENIN FERNANDEZ (he/him) / @_lenin @_pydance_ @new_dialect

This week Lenin will be offering
MOVING THROUGH FORMS

9/28 + 9/30
10:35am-12:00pm
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Class begins warming up the breath to spine connection, imagery paired with center and floor work progressions, and a phrase to close out class.

ABOUT LENIN:
Lenin is a performance artist and Ilan lev practitioner based in Nashville. He has worked in LA and NYC, in both commercial and concert dance settings, which have provided him a wealth different experiences. He has most recently collaborated with PYDANCE and New Dialect on projects, and presented “tears made the Ocean” through the Brave New Works Lab at Oz Arts.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸: @lexidysartphoto
📸: @mimihaddon

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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3 days ago

Introducing Community Class teaching artists HAYDEN HUBNER (she/they) and HANNAH MCCARTHY (she/they) of DOGS EAT WIND / @dogseatwind

This week they will be offering
9/21 CONTEMPORARY FORMS (INT/ADV)
9/23 IMPROVISATION (OPEN LEVEL)

9/21 + 9/23
10:35am-12:00pm
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASSES:
9/21 CONTEMPORARY FORMS (INT/ADV) - We will begin with a warm-up, followed by contemporary/modern across the floor exercises which help us stabalize, expand, and align for a phrase in the center that blends contemporary, modern, and floorwork. This class places focus on rooting down to expand up, grounding so that we might fly.

9/23 IMPROVISATION (OPEN LEVEL) - We will discover movement through the lens of “responding” to both one’s internal and external environment. We will play with balancing the subconcious responses that our intelligent bodies make for us, and the concious responses that give autonomy, creativity, personality, and finesse to our improvisations. We will play with improvisation both as personal practice as well as improvisation as performance, which requires still other kinds of responses regarding space, time, energy, and sometimes theme.

ABOUT DOGS EAT WIND:
Dogs Eat Wind is an international dance collective based between Nashville, Tennessee and Rome, Italy. Throughout the summer of 2026 Hannah and Hayden developed a workshop series broken into 3 core classes - contemporary forms, improvisation, and floorwork, which together cover a large portion of the landscape of movement research that results in DEW’s stage productions. Informing each of these classes is a research of listening - to our bodies, to each other, to proposed questions and answers physical, social, emotional.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸: @llorenzosilano

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance #dogseatwind taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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9 days ago

Fall 2026 Community Classes start tomorrow! Dive in with this week…

Introducing Community Class teaching artist PHYLICIA ROYBAL (she/they) / @wav_l_ngth @phyliciaroybal @mauvetaupe.friends @new_dialect @backstagepresents

Throughout our fall series Phylicia will be offering GYROKINESIS®️Method during our 9:30am warm up sessions 🌀

ABOUT THE CLASS:
The Gyrokinesis®️ Method is a movement method that addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. It is an original and unique method, which coordinates movement, breath and mental focus. Postures are not held for long periods of time. Instead, postures are smoothly and harmoniously connected through the use of breath, making exercises appear and feel more like a dance than traditional yoga. The Gyrokinesis Method is practiced on a mat and chair, without equipment. GYROKINESIS® is a registered trademark of GYROTONIC® Sales Corp and is used with their permission.

ABOUT PHYLICIA:
Phylicia Roybal is a movement artist originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, now based in Nashville. She earned her BFA from the University of Arizona in 2011, receiving the Gertrude Shurr Memorial Award in Modern Dance. A freelance artist, Phylicia has performed and collaborated with artists, companies, and interdisciplinary festivals nationally and internationally. She is a certified Gyrokinesis® trainer and Gyrotonic® trainer, co-founder of MauveTaupe, and creator of BACKSTAGE, an outdoor performance platform centered on accessibility, experimentation, and community. Her work is rooted in somatic inquiry, improvisation, and embodied dialogue.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio

📸: @bklynn22 slides 1 & 3
📸: @tanjakuic slide 2

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance #gyrokinesis® taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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9 days ago

Introducing our final Community Class teaching artist BANNING BOULDIN / @banningbouldin @new_dialect

This week Banning will be offering
COMMUNAL RESEARCH PRACTICE

May 18th & 20th
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Communal Research Practice
In this class we’ll think together with our whole bodies—collectively expanding toward unknowns in our shared movement practice. We’ll write, we’ll talk, and we’ll move through various improvisation modalities to generate immediate self portraits, explore nonbinary partnerships, and deconstruct contemporary phrase work to reveal new possibilities. Intermediate and advanced dancers are welcome.

ABOUT BANNING:
Banning Bouldin is a movement artist, educator, nonprofit arts leader, and published scholar with over two decades of international experience. A graduate of the Juilliard School, they are the founder and artistic director of New Dialect, where they have created acclaimed works such as The Triangle and 21 Yeses, in addition to choreographic commissions for Whim W’Him, Gibney Dance Company, Northwest Dance Project, Groundworks Dance Theater, Visceral Dance Chicago, and others. Their works have been presented by Jacob’s Pillow, OZ Arts, Zeitgeist, Art Prize, the Harris Theater, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Wortham Center, New Works Festival and many others. Banning’s teaching and research explore improvisation, adaptive choreographic structures, and community-driven practices informed by queer and femme empowerment, interdisciplinary collaboration, and her lived experience with disability.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link on our bio

📸: @dredrea @new_dialect @hunterarmistead
Bamberg Fine Art

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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4 months ago

Facilitating communal research + nonbinary partnering for @new_dialect at @worthamarts

Thanks for having us @stewartowendance 🫂 by @new_dialect

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5 months ago

Meet Community Class teaching artists MAUVETAUPE / @mauvetaupe.friends @phyliciaroybal @spencerjgrady

This week Spencer & Phylicia will be offering
DUET BUILDING

May 11th & 13th
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Phylicia and Spencer share their unique practices for choreographing duets as MauveTaupe. This class will focus on their 2024 original work, “Another Duet”. Class will begin with character development exercises utilizing emotional states and props. This will lead in to an exploration of choreography from the piece, where class takers can infuse their own characters into the world of “Another Duet”.

ABOUT MAUVETAUPE:
MauveTaupe is a dance performance project between Nashville-based dance artists Spencer Grady and Phylicia Roybal. Their dynamic pairing cultivates rich, emotional atmospheres where movement expresses the depths of each artist’s individual and shared identities. MauveTaupe’s creative process incorporates impactful set design, varying global soundtracks, and imagery-inspired improvisation. Phylicia and Spencer have been developing work together since 2022, and they have performed three long-form works presented and supported by Kindling Arts Festival, Animata Arts, and Enactor Productions: Incubator. MauveTaupe recently premiered their first evening length performance, GUTS, at the Darkhorse Theater in November 2025.

🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸: Ben Hoback

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #mauvetaupe #mauvetaupedance taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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5 months ago

Echo Mother from the wings

What a deep pleasure it was to dance this work, and to move grief around and through and out of my body. So many people saw their own stories of caregiving and loss, and I will be sitting with their tears and reflections for years to come.

All my gratitude

To @phyliciaroybal for your tremendous, generous partnership

To @madison_brott for creating with me and for our deep mama friendship

To @victoria.bek for making our dream wardrobe

To @stewartowendance & @worthamarts team for the heartfelt invitation and support

To @new_dialect & @metrodancenashville for the scaffolding to create something so meaningful

To @southartsorg for the resources to make sharing our work with southern audiences possible

I can’t wait to do it again and again taken in Wortham Center for the Performing Arts by @new_dialect

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5 months ago

Introducing Community Class teaching artist AMANDA REICHERT / @amandareichert @animata_arts @g.a.r.a.g.e.c.o

This week Amanda will be offering
IMPROVISATION + CONTEMPORARY FLOORWORK

5/4 & 5/6
10:35am-12:00pm
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Class will move through a combination of structured, floor focused exercises and imagery based improvisation. We’ll start on the ground, and work our way up to standing, exploring both patterned and self-discovered ways of moving between levels. We will build towards a movement phrase at the end of class to dance together.

ABOUT AMANDA:
Amanda Reichert is a freelance dancer and choreographer originally from Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University and has since worked as a freelance artist in both New York City and Nashville. She has presented work for the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space and Center for Performance Research in NYC, the Kindling Arts Festival, The Barbershop Theater, and COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN, at Festival Nómada in El Salvador, and b12 Dance Festival in Berlin. She is a recipient of a FY23 Metro Arts Thrive award, and a FY26 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Amanda is currently collaborating with Metro Parks Dance Division and Animata Arts alongside Sarah Salim and Kathryn Wilkening to help curate residency opportunities for artists in Middle Tennessee, and is also a co-founding member of the Garage Collective, a Nashville based improvisation group.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸 Max & Daniel Hardman

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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5 months ago

Introducing Community Class teaching artist BETSY HULTON / @_betsyhulton

This week Betsy will be leading our warm up with
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

5/4 & 5/6
9:30am-10:30am
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Alexander Technique: Moving with Awareness and Ease. Bring whole body awareness to all of your movement - from sitting at a computer to dancing - and discover more ease and coordination through identifying excess tension or unnecessary habits. We can learn to do something differently by first undoing; by pausing and consciously choosing.

ABOUT BETSY:
Betsy brings a background in dance and choreography to her understanding of movement and the Alexander Technique. She certified to teach Alexander many years ago, and teaches both in NYC and Nashville.

🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸 Courtesy of Betsy Hulton

#NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance #alexandertechnique taken in Morgan Park Community Center by @new_dialect

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