Contemporary
Profitraining
with
Victoria McConnell
Profitraining with Victoria is an offering of structured movement and improvisation designed to ground and support dancers’ bodies while engaging imagination and sensation. Spiralling outwards from self-awareness and warming up towards awareness of others and space, the class grounds, centers, and warms then moves through the room using floor work, improvisation, inversions, turns and finally brings everything together in phrase-work. Seeking intersections between form and freedom, Victoria’s mixed background of contemporary and release techniques, yoga, modern, improvisation and sense of humor create a dynamic, ever-evolving class.
2 minute teaching video ↪ here
2 minute teaching video ↪ here
Victoria McConnell
A native Californian, Victoria earned a BFA in Dance from Belhaven University in 2008, and worked in Washington and Oregon. Since 2015, she is based in Germany performing, teaching, and creating collaboratively in Europe. From Berlin, she has worked with composers Katya Sourikova and Adriano Fontana, with musicians Joshua Tennent and Livia Rita. As a dancer, Victoria has performed for Joachim Schlömer, Tanz Company Gervasi, Sara Angius, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and others. She also performs for camera and in comedy. In Seattle from 2009-2015 she danced for many artists including Catapult Dance, Ilvs Strauss, Alana O Rogers Dance Company, and Coriolis Dance Collective. Curating through ada Studio in Berlin, since 2018 she creates events for the series “NAH DRAN extended". While in Seattle, she co-produced dance events through the nonprofit Abbey Arts in 2013 and 2014.