I am taking a class with Jennifer Nugent entitled "Imaginative-Sensitive-Articulate/The Subtleties of Partnering" every day during this year's festival. Female relationships and active, supportive female bodies are extremely important to me as a dance artist. It is so inspiring for me to be able to participate in a partnering class that is facilitated by a female artist with only female participants in the class, but especially to work with Jen. I've struggled in my choreographic processes with articulating why intimacy between bodies is so important to me, but she manages to discuss the importance of these relationships in a very physical form. Instead of spending time talking about the more intellectual idea of relationships, she has provided physical cues to help us manifest the ideas in our bodies. I knew that I would be inspired by working with Jen, but I did not expect to find a completely new way to talk about the elements of dance that are important to me in a physical way.

To read more about Jennifer Nugent, read her artist profile here.

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