Everyone is welcome to come and participate in our Community Clothing Swap! Bring as many pieces as you'd like, including clothing, outerwear, shoes, accessories, tchotchkes, and more... or just come to shop! All ticket sales will be donated to Kaleidoscope Youth Center, and leftover or unclaimed clothes will be donated to Out Of The Closet. Tickets are a sliding scale donation. We also welcome cash or PayPal donations at the door!

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

 Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

In collaboration with Seventh Son Brewing Company.

A light-hearted event for ballet lovers and beer enthusiasts, Barre at the Bar welcomes everyone (no dance experience required!) to "sample" the basics of ballet along with sampler tray of beers from Seventh Son Brewing Company. Share your passion for dance with a friend and take advantage of the "liquid courage" to try something new.

Pricing includes entry and one sampler tray of beer.

Flux Flow Dance Center is thrilled to be collaborating with the Columbus Museum of Art for a weeklong creative intensive with an intergenerational group of 48 dancers from the Flux Flow community. Participants are spending the week rehearsing every evening at the museum to create a new work. The week will culminate in a public performance Sunday, March 10th in The Pavilion at 2pm.

This performance will be the first installment of “Particular Friends”—a new performance series by Flux Flow. This series is in conversation with research from Flux Flow’s dance retreats in Florence, Italy where their community members traveled to explore queerness in the Renaissance through art and architecture of the period. It will also be informed by our reading of the book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy”. For this week of creation we’ll be focusing on ecstasy, devotion, faith, and mysticism.

Wanna see the performance?
We’re organizing ticketing through Eventbrite and will have a pay-what-you-can scale to book a spot for the show at the price that works for you!

$20 Supporter Rate
$10 Standard Rate
$5 Community Rate
$0 Free Admission

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

Pricing: $20 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds*
*Please email info@flux-flow.com for information about Pay What You Can rates for this workshop. 

Join pelvic floor therapist and sex counselor, Sarah Highland, and Sex Therapist, Abigail Hust as they provide an introduction into sexuality after becoming a parent.

This class addresses physical and emotional changes related to pregnancy, birth and/or the adjustment to parenting. You will learn about pelvic floor anatomy and function, as well as common changes during pregnancy or after birth. We discuss desire, arousal and connecting to your sexuality.
 


We will share strategies on navigating this period and tools to connect to your sexual self and communicate with your partner(s) to increase sexual pleasure. 
 


Pelvic floor health and sexuality are broad topics, that intersect with so many other aspects of humanity. This course is meant to be an introduction based upon common concerns reported during this time.

The price for this workshop is $25, but we can also offer a pay-what-you-can rate to accommodate your needs. Email info@flux-flow.com with the subject       "[YOUR NAME]– Workshop PWYC Rate" to learn more.

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

Pricing: $20 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds*
*Please email info@flux-flow.com for information about Pay What You Can rates for this workshop. 

Diva Dances is a 90 minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs. This workshop focuses on using performance tools like musicality and character work to bring the drama to life! Classes begin with a short warm up before diving straight into learning the combination. If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

We’ll be dancing to I Surrender by Céline Dion– one of Fili's personal favorite Divas. Come for the drama, stay for the dancing!

In this class we will awaken our attention, warm up our muscles and our capacity to be curious, and practice techniques for toning our bodies/minds to give and receive weight and energy in motion. We will improvise, we will play, and we will dive into the unknown!

Lilianna Kane is a dancer and chef, currently invested in Contact Improvisation and Collective Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions and paying attention. She is curious about the disruption of normative culture through dancing and gathering. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally. She is currently the head chef at The Field Center in Bellows Falls, VT, where she also has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. Website: www.liliannakane.com

Anna Vomacka is driven by her curiosities and cravings for community, connection, and spaces of shared learning / (un)learning. Perhaps it is through this desire to connect and preserve her childishly-curiosities that Anna found (and stuck with/got stuck to) dance and movement. Anna’s work explores: collective realities, shared intimacy, idiosyncratic differences, physical manifestations of self-imposed & socially imposed labels, power of identity, emergence of community, and recycling of movements, dancers, ideas, waste. Anna graduated from the Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance. While there she worked with Bebe Miller on the creation of two original works. Working extensively with former Trisha Brown dancer, Vicky Shick, Anna performed a recreation of Brown’s “Glacial Decoy” (1979). She was part of Ryan Kelly & Brennan Gerard’s Bessie award winning instillation “Timelining”, which premiered at The Kitchen (2014) and was later shown at the Guggenheim (2015). Anna was the recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Alumni Space Grant in 2019. Also in 2019, Anna performed in Mei Yamanaka’s “If You, Then There”. Anna has been working with Nami Yamamoto since 2017, together they performed at “Troopers Brother” at St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Labapalooza (Puppetry Theater).

Tanya Calamoneri and Michael J. Morris are excited to offer a joint workshop bringing together practices drawn from their studies and experiences of butoh. Butoh is a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh methods experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.
This will be a three-hour introductory workshop, sharing a series of facilitated experiences from Tanya and Michael’s own practices as well as those of their teachers and collaborators. There will be a short break about halfway through the workshop.

No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

Pricing: $30 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Tanya Calamoneri performed and toured with Shinichi Koga’s butoh company inkBoat from 2000-2003 and then moved to NYC where she founded physical theater group Company SoGoNo from 2003-2014. Her work has received NY Innovative Theater awards and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Arts Foundation. She has been on faculty at Colgate University, Texas Tech University, and taught masterclasses at NYU, Temple University, Stonybrook University, TWU, Drexel, Universidad del Estado de Mexico and Escuela de Danza Contemporanea in Mexico City, and numerous community studios in San Francisco and New York. She draws from butoh, physical theater, clown, aerial, and Western contemporary and classical dance. She loves to work with props and installation-type sets, and her movement is driven by interplay with images and non-human states. She teaches dance and wellness at The Ohio State University.

Michael J. Morris is an artist, astrologer, tarot reader, writer, educator, and facilitator. They hold a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University. Their work is concerned with destabilizing normative categories through which bodies are made to live and proliferating difference as an irreducible multiplicity through which more lives might come to matter. They have had the opportunity to teach internationally at ImPulTanz (Austria), Ponderosa (Germany), and SNDO—the School for New Dance Development (Netherlands). They were a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University from 2015-2021, and they have previously facilitated workshops and lectured at University of Michigan, Middlebury College, California State University Long Beach, The College at Brockport SUNY, Point Park University, Oberlin College, University of Wisconsin Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Otterbein University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and The Ohio State University. Michael has studied Butoh in both the U.S. and at the Kazuo Ohno Studio in Yokohama, Japan.

This Workshop is BYOF (Bring Your Own Fan)

Diva Dances is a 90 minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs. This workshop focuses on using performance tools like musicality and character work to bring the drama to life! Classes begin with a short warm up before diving straight into learning the combination. If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

We’ll be dancing with fans (!!!) to Bizet: Carmen by Maria Callas. We do have a limited quantity of fans to provide, but they are fragile! If you imagine fully immersing yourself in character (how could you not?), then we suggest you bring your own hand-held fan to flourish!

Past Divas include: Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe, and Tina Turner.

PC: Sumner Howels

The Gaga movement language originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, ever-changing power of movement. Choreographer, Ohad Naharin, developed Gaga over the course of many years and it is now applied in the daily practice of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. It provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga/people classes offer a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve their flexibility and stamina, exercise their agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.Throughout the class, participants are guided by a series of evocative instructions deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation. Rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga. Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. Classes last approximately one hour. Wear comfortable clothing that does not restrict movement; layers recommended. To create a less self conscious environment, mirrors are required to be covered and observers are not permitted.

Quote from Ohad Naharin:

“We become more aware of our form. We connect to the sense of the endlessness of possibilities. We explore multi-dimensional movement; we enjoy the burning sensation in our muscles, we are ready to snap, we are aware of our explosive power and sometimes we use it. We change our movement habits by finding new ones. We go beyond our familiar limits. We can be calm and alert at once.” 

photo credit Ascaf Avraham

Resources:

Official Gaga Website
Gaga/people class excerpt (2 min. video)

Ohad Naharin Discusses Gaga movement language  (2 min. video)

Mr. Gaga, trailer (2 min. trailer about Mr. Gaga documentary)

Gaga: A Foreigner Explores Ohad Naharin's movement language (article

Are you ready for Fili’s brand new workshop series?? It’s called “Diva Dances” and each 90 minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs.

For this session we’ll be dancing to "Diamonds Are Forever" by Shirley Bassey.

If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

In this workshop, Erin Malley and Doruk Golcu will cover the fundamentals of Argentine Tango in a way that helps you integrate the dance styles you already know. The workshop will be taught in a gender affirming way that allows students to learn in the role of their choice whether that be leader or follower; we recommend to pick one role for the duration of the workshop. We recommend wearing socks or shoes that will pivot easily (leather soles are great...rubber not so much).

Erin Malley & Doruk Golcu are an internationally touring teaching couple based in the United States. Partners on the dance floor and in life, E&D are known as dancers for their flow, their turns, their ability to make complex sequences look effortless, and their chemistry that has continued to grow in the 17 years they have been dancing together.

Erin and Doruk are generous teachers, known for the approachable way that they share their knowledge of both the body in motion and the structure of the dance. With a breadth of experience from the local to the international levels, they have taught and performed extensively in the United States; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ireland; Portugal; Switzerland; the United Kingdom; and Turkey. In higher education, Erin and Doruk have taught classes and courses at Stanford University (CA), Western Michigan University (MI), University of Hawai’i at Manoa (HI), and California State University East Bay. They are routinely sought out by the more experienced dancers in the communities they visit for their skill at helping students progress at every level.

In their teaching, Erin and Doruk prioritize partnership, concentrating on what makes true leading and following, and making the dance work as a collaborative team. They use structural analysis to facilitate understanding. They believe that this analysis can be used to build the foundation for any aesthetic styling you choose.

Erin and Doruk greatly encourage exploration and experimentation in their students. They have lived in several very vibrant communities containing a broad variety of tango styles, and they have danced socially around the world. Thanks to that exposure, they can strongly contextualize their teachings to different styles and approaches of dancing social tango.

As artists and teachers, Erin and Doruk are constantly in process. They are always seeking to discover more about themselves as dancers and learners. The evolution of their growth in turn informs and deepens their teaching, making each encounter with their students more enriching than the last.

$25 per participant

Books + Flow Drag Story Hour! We’re so excited to announce this event happening Saturday, June 24th at 3:30pm in celebration of Pride Month!

@fluxflowdancecenter and @bookspace are partnering up with @biancadebonair @msmikayladenise and @missfoxx1989 for a story hour! The event will start with readings and finish with a little family dance party led by @russell.lepley 🥳Kids of all ages are welcome! Creating trans and queer affirming events for youth is so important to us as a queer family and we’re so excited to share this with you all! Please support this event by being there with your family and sharing this post! We will also be live streaming the readings so you can join from home or anywhere in the world!

$20 per family

Flux Flow and Bookspace will be donating their portion of the proceeds to @kycohio a wonderful organization for queer youth in Columbus.

Design: @staciesellsriver

Are you ready for Fili’s brand-new workshop series?? It’s called “Diva Dances” and each 90-minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs.

For this session, we’ll be dancing to "I Can't Stand the Rain" by Tina Turner. 

If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

Announcing the second edition of Books + Flow, an embodied queer book club!
“Johnny Appleseed” by Joshua Whitehead
Saturday, May 13th
3:30-5:30pm

About the book:
Johnny Appleseed is a heartfelt, shattering novel narrated by Johnny, a Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, cybersex working youth navigating identity both on the “rez” and in colonized Canada at large. I love this book for the relationships that Whitehead creates between its characters who love one another sincerely and imperfectly. Whitehead effortlessly composes memories of Johnny’s grandmother, mother, and childhood best friend/lover into poetic anecdotes that offer an intergenerational look at the contemporary indigenous experience within colonized lands in a way that is erotic, wise, and queer as f***

This collaboration, facilitated by Russell Lepley and Charlie Pugsley, combines queer literature with movement exploration to create an unconventional book club. We read a book together and then meet at F+F for an event structured in three parts:

40 minutes of guided movement exploring themes from the book
10 minute break for tea & refreshments
70 minutes of group conversation discussing, sharing, and connecting with the book.

No dance experience is required for the movement portion. It will be accessible for all abilities and structured to provide agency to opt in or out of participation.

The cost is $30 (not including the book) or pay-what-you-can. Our priority for this club is to create community and conversation and we value your voice. Let us know if there is a rate that would work better for you… we want to be reading and dancing with you. Email us at info@flux-flow.com to set up a pay-what-you-can rate.

Participants are encouraged to purchase the book from Bookspace but it is not a requirement. Please engage in this book club in whatever way makes it accessible for you.

We are very excited to read and move with you all!!

Rehab to Rehearsal: Bridging the Gap from Therapy to Class in the Recreational and Pre-Professional Dancer

(All ages, All levels, Dancers and Dance Educators)

A physical therapy injury prevention lecture for dancers and educators providing information on the role physical therapy plays in promoting longevity in one’s dance career and reducing risk of injury in the performing arts population. This lecture discusses the supporting role of physical therapists in the dance community, provides resources to promote health and wellness among dancers, discusses common dance injuries, and provides dancers with tools including dance specific exercises to incorporate into their lives. This presentation defines tools for performing artists to advocate for their health, recovery, and self-growth. It summarizes rehab considerations and common barriers in the pre-professional and recreational dance world. Bridging the Gap from Therapy to Class will allow dancers, medical providers, and dance educators to collaborate and optimize the health and well-being of the adolescent artist to allow for smooth transition from clinic to stage. The workshop is $20.

Are you ready for Fili’s brand new workshop series?? It’s called “Diva Dances” and each 90 minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs.

For the first session we’ll be doing Marilyn Monroe’s iconic “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.” It’s such a great recording with so many accents and tempo changes to play with! We’ll learn choreography that emphasizes musicality, character work, and uses fun props and set pieces inspired by burlesque performance. If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

Announcing the first edition of Books + Flow, an embodied queer book club:

Saturday, February 25th

3:30-5:30pm

This collaboration, facilitated by Russell Lepley and Charlie Pugsley, combines queer literature with movement exploration to create an unconventional book club for all. We’ll read a book together and meet at F+F for an event structured in three parts:

40 minutes of guided movement exploring themes from the book to a playlist inspired by the text

10 minute break for tea & refreshments

70 minutes of group conversation dissecting, sharing, and connecting with the book.

No dance experience is required and the movement portion will be accessible for all abilities and structured to provide agency to opt in or out of participation.

The first book we will be reading is “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl” by Andrea Lawlor. Described in the New Yorker as “Smut” the book is “a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/one wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and into an array of intimacy and connections.”

To participate payment is required upon registration. The cost is $30 (not including the book) or pay-what-you-can. To set up a pay-what-you-can rate email us at info@flux-flow.com

Participants are encouraged to purchase the book from Bookspace but it is not a requirement. Please engage in this book club in whatever way makes it accessible for you.

We are very excited to read and move with you all!!

Learning choreography is a wonderful way to utilize the technique developed in classes as at tool for self expression. This class will begin with a short barre to warm up our bodies. Previous ballet experience recommended (Beginner friendly).

In this specific workshop, we will fuse contemporary and ballet fundamentals for a more fluid, body-friendly approach to expressive movement.

Our FUNdamentals workshop series allows participants to dedicate special attention to specific aspects of a ballet class. Together we’ll refine the building blocks of our technique with a thoughtful, light-hearted approach… and a sprinkling of pop music.

This workshop will incorporate helpful props into the traditional structure of a ballet class. We'll take our time moving through each exercise, using tools like bands and yoga blocks, to practice activating certain muscle groups before applying the concept directly to our dancing.

Candices’ movements flow inside eclectic choreography that truly displays her love for a diverse array of dance. Join her for a fun, interactive, and high energy workshop of a blend of her favorite styles which include but not limited to Traditional West African, Contemporary modern, and hip hop. We’ll see you on the dance floor!