Pro Class with Jack Anderson
Queens Park Govanhill Parish Church
This is our co-run weekly, morning contemporary class with Barrowland Ballet, for the professional dance community in Glasgow on Thursdays and Fridays. The classes began in 2018 in response to the lack of professional-level contemporary dance classes in the city, providing a space for independent dance artists to come together to train and sustain practice. View the full Winter 2026 schedule.
Pro Class with Jack Anderson
Thur 15, 22 & 29 January 2026
9.30am-10.45am
Queens Park Govanhill Parish Church (QPGPC)
£7 /£5 /£3
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This class aims to offer dancers what they need to set them up for the day in a way that suits their own body and mind. A range of useful physical tools will be suggested with a sense of invitation. Everything is optional - a framework through which to exercise choice, interpretation, empowerment and pleasure in moving.
Starting with breath, we'll move through a series of floor, static and traveling exercises - taking a released approach to the fundamentals of technique. Through repetition of these small chunks of movement, we'll aim to deepen, refine and relax our experience of them.
By grounding into familiar patterns of alignment and co-ordination (referencing the work of Ross McKim, developed from Robert Cohan, as well as other contemporary dance vocabularies), we'll aim to make space in the body - in pursuit of a big, rangy, sculptural physicality full of freedom and power.
We'll then channel this into some extended phrases shifting through space. These will challenge our technique while giving us the opportunity to play with expression through textures, dynamics and musicality - and let us really dig in to the sheer joy of dancing together.