MacKenzie Schuller
MacKenzie is a dance teacher and artist whose core interests continuously recenter around presence in sensation and experience. Her dance background is in contemporary release technique and various improvisational forms, and this is the basis from which she teaches beginning contemporary classes to adults in Boulder. She teaches in collaborative co-creation with her students, laughs constantly, celebrates each new discovery, and focuses on using technique as a ground for play. She began her release-based training at ODC in San Francisco with Lizz Roman, Christine Cali, and Sarah Keeney who all passed on their love of somatics and easefully dynamic movement. From there, she received a bachelor's degree in Dance from Reed College, where her culminating thesis project focused on improvisation as a way to broaden physical perception and capacity. She danced and trained in Portland amongst contemporary and all-styles dancers for several years, and has also studied intensively with faculty of Bates Dance Festival, the Paris Summer Academy, Gaga Movement Language, Vim Vigor, and Countertechnique. Since moving to Boulder 2 years ago, she feels most impacted by practicing with Celia Grannum and Lauren Beale. She loves getting to know the movement community here, and keeps seeking ways to bring more movers together and invite more people into dance. In class with her, you will experience a range of curiosity, nerdiness, goofy jokes, and lots of care.
MacKenzie is a dance teacher and artist whose core interests continuously recenter around presence in sensation and experience. Her life has shown her that presence within her body positions her as a conduit for deeper connections with the environment and everything that resides within it. This belief inspires her to move with appreciation and the capacity to be influenced and changed, always available to the moment that creative energy is ready to take direction and form. Her dance background is in contemporary release technique and various improvisational forms, notably, contact improvisation, and this is the basis from which she teaches beginning contemporary classes to adults in Boulder. She teaches in collaborative co-creation with her students, laughs constantly, celebrates each new discovery, and focuses on using the technique as a ground for play.