Training with Shannon Leypoldt

Shannon’s class draws upon her experience working with countertechnique, gaga, partnering, floorwork, physical theater and performance techniques. Through improvisation tasks, partner work, and technical exercises we will increase body awareness, challenge our mind, and explore new physical sensations and performative states. This class aims to challenge the limits of our physicality while using music, groove, imagination, and memory to connect to our passion for dance. 

Shannon Leypoldt (she/her) is a dance artist, teacher, and sports massage therapist. Shannon received her BFA from the University of California, Irvine and studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Shannon is currently a performer with Punchdrunk’s »Sleep No More« in Shanghai. Previously she has performed with wee dance company, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Dorky Park, Theater Bielefeld, Itinerant Dance Ensemble, and the KDV Dance Ensemble. She has performed choreographies by Shlomi Bitton, Hillel Cogen, Maxine Doyle, Lisi Estarás, Constanza Macras, Kiani Del Valle, and Sommer Ulrickson.