Discover your expressive potential at Dance Imagined movement workshop

Smooth, spiky, graceful, flailing, focused, indirect – whatever can be imagined within provides the source for movement without.

Volcano Art Center’s Dance Imagined classes with instructor Karen Masaki will explore basic dance technique combined with the pure exhilaration of movement.

The six-session series is from 10-11:30 a.m. Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31 and Feb. 7 and 14, 2017. Classes begin with a general warm-up, moving through all body parts to get the blood flowing and joints loosened. Attention then will shift to the basics of modern dance technique with emphasis on alignment, strengthening the legs and feet, working from the core, and increasing expressive potential through the torso and arms.

An improvisational dance segment follows, accompanied by music ranging from classical and rock to jazz and alternative. Classes will include movement and breathing exercises drawn from Juliu Horvath’s Gyrokinesis methodology.

This class is appropriate for all who love to move. No dance experience is necessary.

Masaki has spent a lifetime surrounded by and immersed in the arts. She has performed in dance companies in Philadelphia, New York and Honolulu and taught at private studios and community colleges in Honolulu. She holds a master of fine arts degree in dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is a certified Gyrokinesis trainer.

In her spare time, Masaki grows and processes tea and volunteers with community organizations, including the Volcano Coquistadores and Volcano Community Association.

Cost for a single class is $20, $15 VAC members or $60 for the entire series for VAC members and nonmembers. The center’s Niaulani Campus is located at 19-4074 Old Volcano Road in Volcano Village.

To register or for more information, call 967-8222 or visit www.volcanoart center.org.