This contemporary floorwork-based workshop combines the grace of modern with the speed and fluidity of street dance, capoeira, and house dance. The class activates oppositional forces and contrasting sensations to achieve fluid transitions in and out of the floor. Phrases will involve every part of the body--whether in the air or on the ground. The sessions focus on how to move smoothly from high to low, and on how to rediscover "the down" through the floorwork-oriented aspects of house dance, capoeira, and contemporary dance. By shifting the focus from an internal dialogue to creating movement that, in its own physicality, can tell a story by itself, we will delve deeper into the cathartic potential of sweat and exhaustion, while offering a new and active method of expression.