Dance Workshops

Dance Workshops

Are you a studio owner that would like to explore ways to help your dancers connect emotionally to their performance onstage? 
If so, then these workshops are for you.

The Power of Gesture helped my dancers to think outside of the box, challenge them to explore new ways of moving and communicate their emotions more effectively through movement. They gained new insights and skills that will serve them well in their future. They left feeling inspired, energized, and empowered to take their dancing to new heights. 

The students connected with each other's stories that they told through their gestures, creating a deep bond and truly understanding things they might not have known before. This workshop brought them so close!
Anne Brodsky - Founder of Encore Dance

The Power of Gesture Workshop for Dancers

The Power of Gesture Workshop for Dancers is carefully crafted to empower dancers in bridging the gap between their emotions and choreography. In today's tech-saturated world, children often find themselves disconnected from their feelings amidst the chaos of life. The result? Emotional turbulence and a sense of disconnection from their own experiences of joy, sadness, and everything in between.

The Power of Gesture™ rejuvenates dancers, equipping them with the tools to not only recognize their emotions but also express them through movement. By tapping into their emotions, this workshop offers dancers a pathway to personal growth, enhancing their skills both on and off the stage, and ultimately, fostering a deeper enjoyment of performance.

Watch the video below to witness firsthand the transformative impact of this workshop on dancers' lives.

Outcomes

  • Strengthened choreographic voice

  • Deepened connection to self and community

  • Boost positivity and overall emotional well being

"Jen's ability to help humanity feel, express and emote is masterful. Within an hour, my community embodied their personal story and turned it into the most brilliant form of authentic, self expression. Jen is an exceptional example of the work she teaches. She knows how to easily help others remember how to love and accept themselves."

Gina Pero - Founder of The Peroettes

What people are saying

Emotional Mastery through Choreography

Emotional Mastery is a collaborative experience between Jen and the choreographer. Jen will support and teach The Power of Gesture™ to enhance the emotional connection to the story related to the piece of choreography being worked on. This process will help the dancers perform with confidence and create more ease in their bodies with the steps they have been given.

Enjoy the video below.

Outcomes

  • Perform with connection & purpose on stage

  • Strengthend performance skills

  • Ease in their bodies from a deepened awareness of self

My Why

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, I saw a profound need reconnect to ourselves and community. Disconnection and disassociation from the body was happening everywhere. Teens and adults were afraid, worried, in a state of shock, constantly comparing, wondering, and searching for answers. I'm familiar with the experience of living outside of the body, feeling disempowered while being curious about what lies beneath. My journey was shaped during my childhood experience as a student. Being that society mostly values logical intelligence, measuring success by test scores, and as someone who did not do well on those tests, I developed a narrative that I was less than—not smart enough, not worthy.

Throughout the years of this struggle and the many layers within it, I found dance, which held me steady and connected to my innate strength. It wasn’t until my late 20s that this brewing strength rooted itself in something much bigger. I learned there are multiple forms of intelligence. Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence," psychologist, and science journalist, both led me to my purpose. Understanding that kinesthetic intelligence involves a strong sense of bodily awareness and an aptitude for physical activities such as dance, combined with emotional intelligence—the ability to recognize, understand, manage, and influence one's own emotions and the emotions of others—became the cornerstone of my work.

Learning about these forms of intelligence healed, inspired, and empowered me to step into my voice and embody my mission.

This is how I came to create The Power of Gesture™, a movement methodology that reminds and reconnects dancers to the divine intelligence and natural form of communication we were born with: gesture. This is a universal language that we all share and can understand. The power is within us because it’s rooted in an emotional vocabulary we all share. Through The Power of Gesture™, I help activate and awaken the intuitive, strong, and capable voice that lies within, using the answers we find as inspiration for choreography. Along the way, we discover and reclaim who we are and who we are meant to be. The Power of Gesture™ has a clear goal: to empower dancers and teachers to connect emotionally to their choreography, strengthening their performance and enabling them to live authentically on and off the stage.