“Movement is our chance to be, learn, connect.”
-ANDREA MILLER
About School of Movement
The GALLIM School of Movement was built to be a home for the exchange of movement wisdom. A nexus of artists, educators, and students, the School bridges GALLIM’s three pillars of art-making, dance education, and community building.
Founded by GALLIM’s artistic director, founder, and choreographer, Andrea Miller, School of Movement is the evolution of 17 years of GALLIM’s vision of education, artistic practice, and community building through dance.
GALLIM School of Movement brings dance education to people of all ages and levels through the development of technique, expression, creativity and artistic exchange.
Core Values
Movement fluency
Creative inquiry
Self-expression
Collaboration
Connection
Community
The spirit of our approach is based on the belief that movement is our chance for knowing ourselves, each other, and our world more deeply. Movement is a path to understanding, searching for meaning, and connection. Movement is a source of joy, discipline, and creativity. Movement makes deep impact on our individual and collective lives.
GALLIM Artist India Hobbs teaching our pre-professional students
PC: Alexander Diaz
GALLIM Methods is taught by Andrea Miller, and current and past GALLIM company artists including Donterreo Culp, Marc Anthony Gutierrez, India Hobbs, Gary Reagan, and Georgia Usborne.
GALLIM employs a range of experienced professional guest teaching artists to teach workshops and intensives in dance film studies, wellness, acting, flying low, clown, process, Krump, Vogue, et. al. Recent faculty includes Kayla Farrish, Ebony Williams, Cindy Welik Salgado, Lily Kind, Ben Stamper, Mary John Frank, Brian HallowDreamz Henry, Julia Proctor, Sarah Chien, and Marcella Lewis.
OUR PROGRAMS
GALLIM Methods
GALLIM Methods is a movement technique training which practices Andrea Miller’s movement philosophy and creative methodology through a guided conversation between the body's network of systems and the imagination. Through a combination of guided improvisation and focused exercises, the class brings nuanced attention to regions of the body, its availability for movement, range, coordination, texture, and creative expression and its experience within space, time, and music.
Intensives
Comprehensive, one or two week immersions into technique, creative methodology, improvisation, and award winning repertory, led by GALLIM’s Artistic Director Andrea Miller and GALLIM artists. Participants engage with fellow creatives through movement and dialogue. Intensives also include specialized technique, professional development, and wellness-focused classes taught by guest artists in areas including performance studies, career management, injury prevention, clown, social and street dance, and acting, among others.
Experiences
Intense weekend long immersions into technique, creative methodology, improvisation, and award winning repertory, led by GALLIM’s Artistic Director Andrea Miller, GALLIM artists, and guest artists. Participants engage with fellow creatives through movement and dialogue. Experiences often hone in on specialized techniques & unique practices being developed by the foremost contemporary movement practitioners. Some examples of GALLIM Experiences include: Repertory, Creative Process, Performance Studies, and Partnering.
Process Immersion
Process Immersion is a deep dive into the creative process of a leading creative of our time. Led by world renowned choreographers and movement creatives, each immersion offers a new lens into how we might experience and participate as artists, collaborators, and generative beings in the creative process.
Dancing with the Camera
Dance film studies equip participants to create dance works outside the theater and in the digital arena, and provide the tools for artists to develop autonomous and self-sufficient professional practices in front of and behind the camera. Through technical film studies in pre and post production, camera work, editing, directing, movement workshops, and practice sessions, Dancing with the Camera supports the multi-faceted careers of movement artists in today’s dance landscape. Courses include Theory & Practice, Concept to Delivery, BUILD YOUR REEL, and Photographing Movement.
GALLIM Methods for TEENS
GALLIM Methods is a dance class developed by GALLIM’s Artistic Director and Choreographer Andrea Miller, originally taught to prepare the GALLIM company dancers to work in Miller’s signature contemporary movement approach. Dancers are led through a guided improvisation that engages the body and the imagination through movement that is wildly dynamic, physical, delicately nuanced, and individual. Classes improve creative fluency and personal expression, build mobility and strength, and attune body consciousness. Come prepared to move, sweat, express your unique self, and have fun dancing with peers from across NYC!
Jam & Toast
A FREE virtual dance class held primarily through Instagram Live, Jam & Toast is an open level movement class taught by GALLIM’s Artistic Director Andrea Miller and GALLIM dance artists designed to bring movement to your day. Join us live or watch the recording when it suits you.
GALLIM in Universities & Colleges
When you bring GALLIM to your school you can expect an experience tailored specifically for your students and your priorities. GALLIM’s educational programming is designed to bridge the gap from dance education to the professional world through the synthesis of technical development, individual self-exploration, improvisation, creative process research, professional development & mentorship, and dance film training.
Contact Navarra Novy-Williams to inquire | navarra@gallimdance.com
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING - COMING SOON!
Learning Objectives
Discover a spectrum of movement wisdom and physicality
Cultivate confidence in individual expression & creativity
Develop technical proficiency
Experience artistic exchange & collaboration
How We Do It
Exploration, we playfully and intentionally explore the body
Creativity, we create dances, tell stories, imagine new worlds
Physicality, we teach technique to achieve physical virtuosity, and to understand emotions and inner landscapes
Collaboration, we work together to harness the power of teamwork and learn from each other
GALLIM SCHOOL OF MOVEMENT SUPPORTERS
GALLIM School of Movement Leadership Support & Founding School Sponsorship
Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation
GALLIM School of Movement is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and Donors Like You!