Natalie Desch: Doug Varone Master Class 

When I arrived to this master class, I found a line already forming out the door. The room quickly filled to capacity. Students lined around the room to watch the popular class although it was already full. Company member Natalie Desch taught, and thanked all  of the ADF students for the wonderful reception Doug Varone and Dancers received at their performances earlier that week.  She started class on the floor, using exercises that strengthened and released tension to warm the body up. She moved on to exercises that worked through the different anatomical planes of the body; while using spiraling and circular movement. Much of her movement focused on warming the spine and the feet.  The movement really got the dancers to a place inside their bodies where they could fully embody the movement.