Each morning begins with a ballet barre, designed to prepare dancers for a full and physically demanding day. The barre emphasizes clarity of alignment, efficiency, and musicality, offering a thorough warm-up that supports strength, coordination, mobility, and joint health. Attention to placement, breath, and dynamic use of the legs and torso establishes a grounded physical readiness, allowing dancers to work with focus, precision, and ease.
Following barre, dancers move into theMcGinnis Method, a contemporary modern technique class that moves the body with joy. Part modern technique class and part wild ride, this class refines alignment, softens edges, whips out of control, takes space with energetic flow and bound exploration, twirls with passion, and minimizes to the core.
McGinnis’s approach draws from dance’s essential principles alongside broad conceptual influences, encouraging dancers to remain adaptable, alert, and fully embodied. The practice deepens each dancer’s relationship to their moving self while cultivating versatility, stamina, and expressive range.
