Professional Training Contemporary

Gaga 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 layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges. Throughout the class, dancers are prompted to visit unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well as to unlock the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness.

Gaga strengthens the body by promoting flexibility, endurance and agility. Coordination and efficiency are trained and the senses and imagination are stimulated. The class deepens dancers' awareness of physical sensations, enhances the ability to modulate energy and enriches movement quality with a wide range of textures, such as soft and strong, restrained and exaggerated. Suggestive instructions designed to increase and reinforce awareness of sensation guide through the training. Information is layered and built into a multi-sensory, physically challenging experience.