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Max Stone
Contemporary
Biography:
Max holds an MFA in dance and served as Senior Lecturer on the faculty at Southern Methodist University. He was with the original Broadway cast of the Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch musical/play, They’re Playing Our Song. He has guest taught at the Juilliard Conservatory, Complexions Summer/Winter Intensives, Bates and Joffrey Summer Dance Intensives, and conducted choreography seminars for Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère. During their NY City Center season in 2010, Max taught company classes for Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Recently, he choreographed for The Rainforest Benefit at Carnegie Hall, sponsored and directed by Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler. In 2013, Max choreographed for the Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig film, “Frances Ha”.
Max is Artistic Director of Sexy Beast NYC, an online-only dance company based in New York City.
Class Description:
Merging basic ballet vernacular with certain free-flowing,
boneless movement vocabulary, this class demonstrates that space,
itself, is a support mechanism that can be utilized to attain particular
movement objectives. The conservation of muscle strength is
preserved, enabling the dancer to have more stamina. The aim is to
create familiar and focused pathways to an effortless expression of
lyrical and percussive disciplines. By understanding and applying the
particular dynamics of fall and rebound, momentum and flow, dancers
discover a certain freedom, quality and kinetic range they never knew
they possessed. The desire is to instigate and initiate the body’s
creative impulse, which is innate within every person. The
encouragement of individual traits that challenge both body and mind
is of utmost importance and the unique qualities that each possess
will be nurtured to full expression.