Hedwig Dances Open Company Class

Grounded Flow with Paula Sousa!

This class focuses on the body’s relationship to the floor, fluidity, and core strength, enhancing movement through balance, musicality, and spatial awareness. Dancers will explore creativity and composition through individual, partnering, and group tasks, discovering unique paths for creation. It’s an opportunity to take risks, engage with the body’s full presence, and uncover new possibilities in movement.

Please register in advance on Eventbrite.  

FEE: $12 (non-refundable)

CLASS TIME: 9:30am-10:45am

Paula Sousa is a Brazilian dance artist with an interest in cultural production and the performing arts. She holds degrees from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) in Austria and the Bolshoi School in Brazil. Paula has collaborated extensively with artists in Europe and South America, such as Francesca Harper (USA), Ko Murobush (Japan), Jelka Milic (Slovenia), Renan Martins (Brazil), Roberto Olivan (Spain), Martin Kilvady (Slovakia), Quan Bui Ngoc (Vietnam), Carlos Matos (Portugal), Jorge Garcia (Brazil), and Luiz Fernando Bongiovanni (Brazil). Before moving to Chicago, she danced for five years with Balé do Teatro Guaíra in Curitiba, Brazil. Paula is a former collaborative artist with Projeto Mov_oLA and Plataforma Shop Sui, both in Sao Paulo. Paula has been a member of Hedwig Dances since January 2023. In Chicago, Paula also collaborated with Jessi Stegall for the performance “Figments (A)” at the Arrive Festival 2023 and is a collaborative artist for the project “Arriving at Dawn” by Chih-Jou Cheng. In addition to her work
as a dancer, Paula is a choreographer, videographer, and movement director.

Class is held in the spacious Larry Long Studio in our home at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 North Dearborn, between Maple and Oak. The RPC is accessible by public transportation: Brown Line (Chicago station), Red Line (Chicago or Clark/Division station), bus lines #22, 36, 70. Street parking is available.

Make it a trio deal, please! Register for all three classes and receive a discount!