Festival Master Class w/ Kayliani Sood and Allison Smith
with Kayliani Sood and Allison Smith

In this floorwork and street-style fusion workshop, teachers Allison Smith and Kayliani Sood lead athletic and playful exercises to condition a skilled, adaptable dancing body. Expect a thorough group warm up, floor work, foot work, and choreography that draw from house, breaking, and contemporary floorwork styles. This workshop is intended to create a social, sweaty, and collaborative atmosphere for professional and pre-professional dancers to enjoy.

About Kayliani and Allison/Jumper Cables:

Jumper Cables is a collaborative duo whose movement practice lives between the worlds of street and post modern dance. Co-founders Allison Smith and Kayliani Soods’ respective backgrounds in contemporary styles weave through foundations in popping, breaking, and house to create a rigorous, athletic, and unornamented approach to dance making. Smith and Soods’ methods value creative ingenuity, collective agency, and interdisciplinary collaboration with musicians. They have performed and set work in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Urban Movement Arts’ Flow State, and Philadelphia Dance Projects’ DANCE UP CLOSE series. Their work has been featured in ThINKing Dance journal and Broad Street Review.