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"Lydia Fletcher is an artist and scientist living in Lexington, Kentucky. By day, she works as a lab tech in molecular infectious disease diagnostics and spends her evenings creating. She is a professional aerialist and dancer, currently choreographing and performing with Sora Contemporary Circus, Ambo Dance Theatre, Allegro Dance Project, and The Collected Few Dance Project. She has been training in various dance styles since she was two years old, including tap, jazz, ballet, and modern. Through college at the University of Kentucky and beyond, Lydia began training in improvisational dance techniques and nontraditional partnering. She found that her love of sharing energy with fellow performers and her drive to learn athletic and virtuosic movement could shine through and blend together. She intentionally centers her queerness as a foundational element of the creative process by challenging norms, movement expectations, and the relationships between performers and their audience. "
Lydia Fletcher

Lydia Fletcher is an artist and scientist living in Lexington, Kentucky. By day, she works as a lab tech in molecular infectious disease diagnostics and spends her evenings creating. She is a professional aerialist and dancer, currently choreographing and performing with Sora Contemporary Circus, Ambo Dance Theatre, Allegro Dance Project, and The Collected Few Dance Project.

She has been training in various dance styles since she was two years old, including tap, jazz, ballet, and modern. Through college at the University of Kentucky and beyond, Lydia began training in improvisational dance techniques and nontraditional partnering. She found that her love of sharing energy with fellow performers and her drive to learn athletic and virtuosic movement could shine through and blend together. She intentionally centers her queerness as a foundational element of the creative process by challenging norms, movement expectations, and the relationships between performers and their audience.

Advanced Weight Sharing and Nontraditional Partnering
Nontraditional partnering can be thought of as a fusion between acro and dance that explores how two bodies can connect, lean into, and away from one another. Taught through an intentionally queer lens, this workshop will explore advanced weight sharing and partner lifts. Throwing away the dichotomy of flyer and base, it will explore how all bodies can find strength through intentional stacking and weight placements. It will focus on hip and shoulder high lifts and require a willingness to both lift and be lifted.
Playful Connections: Group Improvisation Basics
Group Compositional Improvisation is a movement modality that emphasizes interpersonal awareness and collective decision making. This workshop will focus on attuning to the energy of the space and collaboratively creating improvisational dances together. We will practice responding to the energy of those around you by using physical movements. No dance experience is necessary, we will use basic elements of movement and to find new ways to connect and respond to one another.