Jermaine Maurice Spivey

Jermaine Maurice Spivey is a graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and The Juilliard School. He has performed with Ballet Gulbenkian, Cullberg Ballet, American Repertory Theater, Robyn Live 2016, Hofesh Shecter Company, The Forsythe Company and Kidd Pivot. Jermaine is a Princess Grace Awardee, who instructs dance nationally and internationally, creates and performs interdisciplinary works with partner Spenser Theberge, as well as choreographs his own works commissioned by company’s such as XTINA Hollywood Bowl 2021, LA Dance Project, Rambert 2, Gibney Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, NDT 2, Sacramento Ballet, Nashville Ballet and Royal Ballet of Flanders.

CLASS DESCRIPTION: 

Contemporary Strategies will consist of mobilizing the body in the first half by sourcing movement and compositional strategies from our everyday practiced ability to do more than one specific thing at the same time. As a matter of fact, your anatomy works that way naturally.

So, we move through the class, reminding ourselves, “You(we) already know how to do it.”

In the second half of class, we’ll apply those strategies to choreographed movement phrases, using the choreography to help deepen and stretch the understanding of the strategies.