Contemporary Modern Jazz with Sasha Soreff

Tuesday, November 17 | 6:45-8:15 pm

A native of Portland, Sasha is a choreographer, dance teacher, Resonant Healing Practitioner and empathy/movement facilitator based in New York City. She has been on faculty at Gibney Dance since 2014, and prior to that Sasha taught modern, Simonson technique, and created student performance workshops at Dance Space Center and Dance New Amsterdam. She is also on faculty at The International Partner Dance Intensive and has guest taught at NYU Langone’s Initiative for Women with Disabilities and Casco Bay Movers. She serves on the Coordinating Team for Radical Movement, a monthly online movement space “for everybody and every body” created by Sonya Renee Taylor.

As Artistic Director of Sasha Soreff Dance Theater, Sasha has created and shared multi-generational, participatory work on stage and in community settings for more than twenty years. SSDT’s work has been seen in performance by students at the Ailey School, on tour throughout in New York State and new England, at the Queens Museum, HERE, University Settlement and WNET Television, among other venues.   As an empathy/movement facilitator, Sasha weaves somatic movement, relational neuroscience, and transformational principles together in support of compassionate self-connection, soulful, embodied expression, and healing.