New Dialect, Nashville, TN (2026)

05/23/2026

That’s a wrap on our Spring Community Class series! Have a fruitful summer- we will see you for our Fall Community Classes in August!

We’d like to thank our community for showing up to move, play, and research with us. We are so grateful to share the space together.

Endless thank you’s to our community class teaching artists for your generous offerings. We couldn’t do it without you!

And of course, this wouldn’t be possible without the support of and Kathryn Wilkening.

Here are a few snippets of our time together throughout the spring! Community members featured in these clips: .corrine + a few more we might have missed 💜

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05/17/2026

Introducing our final Community Class teaching artist BANNING BOULDIN /

This week Banning will be offering
COMMUNAL RESEARCH PRACTICE

May 18th & 20th
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Communal Research Practice
In this class we’ll think together with our whole bodies—collectively expanding toward unknowns in our shared movement practice. We’ll write, we’ll talk, and we’ll move through various improvisation modalities to generate immediate self portraits, explore nonbinary partnerships, and deconstruct contemporary phrase work to reveal new possibilities. Intermediate and advanced dancers are welcome.

ABOUT BANNING:
Banning Bouldin is a movement artist, educator, nonprofit arts leader, and published scholar with over two decades of international experience. A graduate of the Juilliard School, they are the founder and artistic director of New Dialect, where they have created acclaimed works such as The Triangle and 21 Yeses, in addition to choreographic commissions for Whim W’Him, Gibney Dance Company, Northwest Dance Project, Groundworks Dance Theater, Visceral Dance Chicago, and others. Their works have been presented by Jacob’s Pillow, OZ Arts, Zeitgeist, Art Prize, the Harris Theater, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Wortham Center, New Works Festival and many others. Banning’s teaching and research explore improvisation, adaptive choreographic structures, and community-driven practices informed by q***r and femme empowerment, interdisciplinary collaboration, and her lived experience with disability.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link on our bio

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Bamberg Fine Art

05/10/2026

Meet Community Class teaching artists MAUVETAUPE / .friends

This week Spencer & Phylicia will be offering
DUET BUILDING

May 11th & 13th
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Phylicia and Spencer share their unique practices for choreographing duets as MauveTaupe. This class will focus on their 2024 original work, “Another Duet”. Class will begin with character development exercises utilizing emotional states and props. This will lead in to an exploration of choreography from the piece, where class takers can infuse their own characters into the world of “Another Duet”.

ABOUT MAUVETAUPE:
MauveTaupe is a dance performance project between Nashville-based dance artists Spencer Grady and Phylicia Roybal. Their dynamic pairing cultivates rich, emotional atmospheres where movement expresses the depths of each artist’s individual and shared identities. MauveTaupe’s creative process incorporates impactful set design, varying global soundtracks, and imagery-inspired improvisation. Phylicia and Spencer have been developing work together since 2022, and they have performed three long-form works presented and supported by Kindling Arts Festival, Animata Arts, and Enactor Productions: Incubator. MauveTaupe recently premiered their first evening length performance, GUTS, at the Darkhorse Theater in November 2025.

🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸: Ben Hoback

05/06/2026

We had an extraordinary time premiering Echo Mother last weekend.

Huge thanks to our friends at + for the invitation to share with your communities in Asheville and to and for your support. ✨

Echo Mother
Choreography
Performers +
Assistant + collaborator
Lighting + production Josh Weckesser
Wardrobe .bek
Produced by with major funding support from

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05/03/2026

Introducing Community Class teaching artist AMANDA REICHERT / .a.r.a.g.e.c.o

This week Amanda will be offering
IMPROVISATION + CONTEMPORARY FLOORWORK

5/4 & 5/6
10:35am-12:00pm
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Class will move through a combination of structured, floor focused exercises and imagery based improvisation. We’ll start on the ground, and work our way up to standing, exploring both patterned and self-discovered ways of moving between levels. We will build towards a movement phrase at the end of class to dance together.

ABOUT AMANDA:
Amanda Reichert is a freelance dancer and choreographer originally from Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University and has since worked as a freelance artist in both New York City and Nashville. She has presented work for the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space and Center for Performance Research in NYC, the Kindling Arts Festival, The Barbershop Theater, and COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN, at Festival Nómada in El Salvador, and b12 Dance Festival in Berlin. She is a recipient of a FY23 Metro Arts Thrive award, and a FY26 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Amanda is currently collaborating with Metro Parks Dance Division and Animata Arts alongside Sarah Salim and Kathryn Wilkening to help curate residency opportunities for artists in Middle Tennessee, and is also a co-founding member of the Garage Collective, a Nashville based improvisation group.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸 Max & Daniel Hardman

05/03/2026

Introducing Community Class teaching artist BETSY HULTON /

This week Betsy will be leading our warm up with
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

5/4 & 5/6
9:30am-10:30am
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Alexander Technique: Moving with Awareness and Ease. Bring whole body awareness to all of your movement - from sitting at a computer to dancing - and discover more ease and coordination through identifying excess tension or unnecessary habits. We can learn to do something differently by first undoing; by pausing and consciously choosing.

ABOUT BETSY:
Betsy brings a background in dance and choreography to her understanding of movement and the Alexander Technique. She certified to teach Alexander many years ago, and teaches both in NYC and Nashville.

🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸 Courtesy of Betsy Hulton

04/19/2026

Introducing Community Class teaching artist EMMA MORRISON / .a.r.a.g.e.c.o

This week Emma will be offering
CONTEMPORARY FORMS + IMPROVISATION

4/20 + 4/22
10:35am-12:00pm
Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
This contemporary dance class is designed for a range of adult movers, from those with no experience to advanced professional dancers, and focuses on waking the mind and body and enlivening the imagination using sensory-based improvisations. We will tap into articulate physical modes with curiosity and explore skill-building, movement games, and large phrase material done in unison (or not in unison) with the goal of having fun and sweating together.

ABOUT EMMA:
Emma is a Nashville-based performer, teacher, and choreographer. As a founding member of New Dialect, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Roy Assaf, Yin Yue, Bryan Arias, Rosie Herrera, Banning Bouldin, and more. She is also a key collaborator with Asia Pyron’s celebrated company, PYDANCE. In 2022, Emma co-founded Garage Collective, a site-specific and improvisation project based in Nashville. As an educator, she has taught early childhood movement and contemporary dance through Metro Parks Dance Division since 2013. Emma has also taught workshops at Belmont University, Vanderbilt University, MTSU, TSU, University of the South, Booker T. Washington HSPVA, and Juilliard.

🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio

📸 Ben Hoback, Joseph Patrick, Micah Mathewson

04/14/2026

Introducing Community Class teaching artist MEGAN CARVAJAL /

Megan will be leading some of our warm up sessions w/
FUNCTIONAL PATTERNS GROUP CLASS

April 15, 20, 22
9:30am-10:30am
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
Move better and feel stronger in this Functional Patterns group class. We focus on FP’s Big 4 - standing, walking, running, and throwing - to restore natural movement, build resilience, and improve alignment.

ABOUT MEGAN:
After a lifelong involvement in movement, injuries during her professional career led Megan to becoming a Functional Patterns Human Biomechanics Specialist. Through her work, she now helps people restore natural movement, reduce pain, and feel stronger in their bodies.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio

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04/12/2026

Introducing Community Class teaching artist MCKAY HOUSE / .a.r.a.g.e.c.o

This week McKay will be offering
CONTACT IMPROVISATION SKILLS

April 13th & 15th
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center

ABOUT THE CLASS:
This class will explore momentum, weight sharing, and spirals within partnerships, ground dynamics, and solo relating. We will be working together to develop our skills for tracking a partners momentum as well as our own abilities to act and react within an ever-changing environment. When do we choose to soften, to resist, to release, to redirect, to disengage?

ABOUT MCKAY:
McKay House lives and works in Nashville as a freelance dance and performance artist focusing most of her work on improvisation and dance for camera. She has conceived and performed original works at Future Dance Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Going Dutch Festival, Ladyfest CLT, and most recently the Asheville Fringe Festival. She is a recipient of the FY26 Thrive Grant via Metro Arts Nashville which she is currently utilizing to make a dance film with collaborator and fellow community member Emma Morrison. McKay is a co-founder of Nashville-based dance group Garage Collective as well as the community-driven play workshop Embodied Creativity.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio

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04/10/2026

Introducing Community Class teaching artist PHYLICIA ROYBAL / .friends

Throughout our spring series Phylicia will be offering
GYROKINESIS™️ during our 9:30 warm up sessions

ABOUT THE CLASS:
The Gyrokinesis Method is a movement method that addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. It is an original and unique method, which coordinates movement, breath and mental focus. Postures are not held for long periods of time. Instead, postures are smoothly and harmoniously connected through the use of breath, making exercises appear and feel more like a dance than traditional yoga. The Gyrokinesis Method is practiced on a mat and chair, without equipment.

ABOUT PHYLICIA:
Phylicia Roybal is a movement artist originally from Santa Fe, now based in Nashville. She earned her BFA in 2011 from the University of Arizona, where she received the Gertrude Shurr Memorial Award in Modern Dance. Phylicia has performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists, companies, and interdisciplinary festivals nationally and internationally. She works as a freelance solo artist, a certified Gyrokinesis® trainer, and a Gyrotonic® apprentice. She is the co-founder of MauveTaupe and the creator of BACKSTAGE, an outdoor performance platform centered on accessibility, experimentation, and community. Her work is grounded in somatic inquiry, improvisation, and embodied dialogue.

🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio

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