Join Summer Stages Dance @ ICA for a masterclass with dancer and choreographer Jimena Paz. The class will explore somatic modality; Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and how moving slowly and mindfully can serve as a “reset” for the nervous system and offer an opportunity to further investigate how we move, creating a space for appreciating the nuance and possibility of simple, everyday movements such as walking, reaching, sitting. This exploration will add depth and freedom to the improvisational work that concludes our work together.
This practice is as beneficial for those looking for a beginner class as it is for dancers seeking to refine their craft.
The class will consist of verbally guided instruction (bilingual English/Español). Movements are performed while lying on the floor or a mat, sitting, or standing to ensure comfort and accessibility.
You are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes that facilitate movement and to bring a mat or blanket.
About Jimena Paz
Jimena Paz was born and grew up in Buenos Aires; she has lived and worked in Argentina, the U.S., and Europe. Throughout her work, she explores experiences of foreignness, otherness, migration, and the fictional and sensorial aspects of the multiple relationships that exist between body, soul, land, environment, and cultures.
Most recently, Paz has been working on an interview project titled Conversaciones. The intention of this project is to expand conversations and awareness about Latine/x artists and cultures in Westernized dance, to bring the important voices of immigrant artists to the conversation, and to learn directly from them in their mother tongue. She collaborated with the artist Ralph Lemon for the work In Proximity (2025, 2022) at MoMA PS1 (New York) and Palazzo Grassi (Venice, Italy). She also collaborated with visual artist David Hartt for the exhibition Metabolic Rift (2025) at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin and performed in the work of Vicky Shick Including You (2025). Her solo, iridescent (2021), was presented at Movement Without Borders, curated by Richard Colton, and included among The New York Times’ ”Best of Dance 2021.” Other works include Yellow, a co-creation with American artists and choreographers Vicky Shick and Ralph Lemon, presented at The Chocolate Factory Theater in 2017.
She has had the pleasure of working with Vicky Shick, Ralph Lemon, Lance Gries, Susan Rethorst, the Stephen Petronio Company (1999–2006), Juliette Mapp, Constanza Macras (Germany/Argentina), Iris Scaccheri (Argentina), Aurelia Chillemi (Argentina), Martha Clarke, Liz Gerring, Antonio Ramos, Todd Williams, Burt Barr, Sabrina Farji (Spain/Argentina), and Virginie Yassef (France). She was an artist-in-residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation (2023), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2018), Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (2016), New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013–2014), The Yard (2012), and Movement Research (2007–2009).
Paz holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University (2009). Additionally, she holds a dance teaching degree from the Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Artística at the Centro de Educación Corporal in Argentina.