Weekly Professional Class with Sara Hernandez

The session will begin with a warm-up to awaken the senses and bring awareness to the space and our bodies. We will explore different possibilities of moving organically, trusting your own movement intuition, releasing tension in the body to create muscle relaxation, spinal articulation and freedom of movement. Using the centre of gravity we will move through some floor phrases focusing on the release of the body weight and the use of the breath.

We will continue with dynamic choreographic sequences. We will be using different directions, energy to flow, weight, spirals, suspensions and balance as we move through the space. This class will also focus on guided exercises using the imagination, sensory awareness and visualisations to discover new ways of creating expressive movement.

Sara Hernández is a Dance Artist based in Cork. She studied at the conservatory of dance “Institut del Teatre” in Barcelona and danced with Ballet Biarritz Junior and Cienfuegos Danza in Spain. She has been working with Helga Deasy Choreographer since 2016.

Sara has presented work at Cork Midsummer Festival 2017 and Skibbereen Dance Festival 2018. She has created and performed commissioned works for: The Cork Butter Museum in 2019 and 2021, Cork County Council, Macroom 2021 and for Faoin Speir- In the Open programme, Cork 2022.