FOR COMPANIES

Dance for Joy workshop

Classes that help relieve stress and energize by allowing people to revel in the joy that dance brings. In Dance for Joy workshops Maura guides participants through a series of movements that culminate in a celebratory dance. Through careful curation of uplifting music and choreography, Maura helps people let loose and shake off their worries.

Honey Body Workshop

A workshop designed especially for smaller spaces with the goal of making one's body feel more like honey - smooth, sweet, and relaxed. Maura leads participants through a series of movements designed to reduce stress and activate the entire body. People will leave feeling energized, more relaxed, and have some new self care ways that they can use at home and/or work.

See It Differently workshop

Classes that use movement, dance and choreography to help participants find new ways of thinking about the challenges they encounter in work and life. Whether it be a problem that needs solving, a decision that needs action or a situation that needs mediation, See It Differently workshops help people create responses by harnessing their inner creativity and kinetic energy. Participants leave with a new way to interpret their experiences and new tools to help change their point of view and generate innovative solutions. See It Differently workshops are offered as one-time sessions or 1-2 week residencies with the variety and depth of tools explored increasing with length.

Movement Response workshops

Experiential, movement-based classes that teach participants techniques for using movement to respond to anything and everything. Whether it be a machine, a personal experience or a strategic plan, movement response classes explore how phenomena can be understood and deconstructed via dance. Participants leave with deeper appreciation of the ideas being explored. Movement Response classes are offered as one-time sessions or 1-2 week residencies with the variety and depth of tools explored increasing with the length.

FOR UNIVERSITIES

Choreography Residency

Over the course of 1 - 3 weeks, Maura will teach a series of intensive workshops covering her movement style and choreography. During this time period, she will also set a piece on the students. Students will explore personal and cultural stories as sources for creating a choreographic vocabulary. García’s movement is tied to family stories and Indigenous cultural references. Students will also learn about the sources of the imagery she uses in her work.

Site-responsive Dance

A series of classes taking students through the creation of site-responsive performance works from conception to performance. Students learn techniques to respond the visual, sensory and auditory elements of specific sites. Maura's classes will explore all of this but within the context of the Indigenous history, present and future of the land. Classes are offered as a course unit, 1-2 week residencies or multi-day-long master classes with the variety and depth of tools explored increasing with length.

Sources of Movement Lecture Demo

This lecture introduces audiences to behind the scenes processes used to create choreography and convert everyday events into movements. In addition to outlining choreography-generating techniques and providing examples of how they can be used, Maura demonstrates the techniques via audience participation activities. She also discusses the stories behind her own choreography. Demonstrations typically run 45 minutes - 1.5 hours.

Movement Response workshops

Experiential, movement-based classes that teach participants techniques for using movement to respond to anything and everything. Whether it be a tree, a personal experience, a math lesson or a painting, movement response classes explore how events and objects can be interpreted, understood and explored via dance. Participants leave with deeper appreciation of whichever subject is being explored. Movement Response classes are offered as one-time sessions or 1-2 week residencies with the variety and depth of tools explored increasing with the length.

FOR COMMUNITIES

Choreography Masterclass

Participants are guided through a challenging and innovative dance class complete with warm-up, conditioning and a chance to learn Maura's original choreography. One workshop generally runs for 1.5 or 2 hours.

Dancing Stories workshop

These workshops allow people to move, learn and have fun while exploring the oral tradition through dance. Students interpret stories through self-created choreography and group dance collaborations. Minds and bodies are activated at the same time, allowing students to develop a new relationship with the narrative. Classes run from 45 minutes - 2 hours.

Honey Body Workshop

A workshop designed especially for smaller spaces with the goal of making one's body feel more like honey - smooth, sweet, and relaxed. Maura leads participants through a series of movements designed to reduce stress and activate the entire body. People will leave feeling energized, more relaxed, and have some new self care ways that they can use at home and/or work.

Liberate Yourself workshop (18+, women & femmes only)

The power that people can access when connected to their sensual nature is transformative. In Liberate Yourself workshops, Maura guides participants through interactive dance and storytelling experiences that help them harness their sensuality in a safe and consentual environment. Event activities include a series of professional anecdotes, gentle movement-based prompt exploration, witnessing dance performance and a closing reflection. All activities will take place in circle formation. Length 75 - 120 minutes.

Movement Response workshops

Experiential, movement-based classes that teach participants ways to use movement as a technique to respond to and explore events and ideas. Movement Response classes are offered as one-time sessions.