Advanced Partnering

$35 RegistrationDiscounts Available - Please contact us to requestThis class is Ages 16 +Taught by Justin RustleThis class will explore tactics and vocabulary to deepen partner connection in stage combat with an emphasis on communication. The idea behind this class is the application of concepts from contemporary dance and partnered dancing to expand the vocabulary and conceptual toolbox for combatants and choreographers.Beginning with non-combat exercises centered on matching, mirroring, and footwork, we will then move to in-contact exercises for compression, tension, frame matching, and tone matching. We will then apply these concepts to single sword combat, and explore how these ideas can be used both as generative tools for creating new choreography, as well as rehearsal tools for cleaning choreography that already exists.Class Level: Intermediate/AdvancedSunday, January 24, 2027 @ 9am to 12pm ESTat the Reston Players’ Lindsay C. Petersen Rehearsal Hall264 Sunset Park Drive, Herndon, Va 20170Justin Rustle (he/him) is a dancer, educator, choreographer, and dance writer originally from Maryland and currently based in the DMV.He has studied at Maryland Youth Ballet, and Butler University. He also holds a Masters Degree in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.For over a decade Justin has been performing and teaching dance across the United States, including with Ballet Arkansas and Bowen-McCauley Dance Company.. He currently performs as a company artist with Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company (DTSBDC).In addition to performing with DTSBDC Justin is currently a faculty member at Baltimore School for the Arts, Senior Faculty at Essence Studios and Hope Garden Children’s Ballet Theater, and a contributing writer covering dance and physical theater for Maryland Theatre Guide.If you have any questions or concerns regarding the class, payment, safety, or any other topic, please email [email protected] .