Dance Art Group / Movement Arts Research (DAG/MAR)
From January 2007-June 2011, DAG presented weekly classes at Velocity Dance Center. DAG/MAR featured research into improvisation, performance, creative process and composition, contact improvisation, somatic education, New Dance techniques, and other dance realms with a different local teacher/topic each month.
Teachers included Paige Barnes; Susan Baum; Karen Clay; Sheri Cohen; Scott Davis; Vanessa DeWolf; John Dixon; Nate Dryden; Louis Gervais; Monica Mata Gilliam; Beth Graczyk; Kristin Hapke; Krista Gemmell Harris; Jean Hindle; Lila Hurwitz; Tonya Lockyer; Douglas MacKenzie; Karen Nelson; KT Niehoff; Haruko Nishimura; Amy O'Neal; Amelia Reeber, Mary Sheldon Scott; Joe Shirley; Stephanie Skura; Diana Garcia-Snyder; Tara Stepenberg; Aaron Swartzman; Kristen Tsiatsios; Jenna Bean Veatch; Nala Walla.
Velocity Dance Center is now producing weekly improvisation-based classes in DAG/MAR's stead. The newly-named Investigative Movement Practices series started September 8.