Creative Learning Dance Project, 2025

Engaging Older Adults through Contemporary Dance

October 3 - December 13, 2025

Project Information

Join us for a unique series of movement arts classes! Adapting ballet, modern, jazz, and Broadway dance language with yoga and gymnastics principles, we work together in nurturing and expanding upon students' capabilities -- while providing joy and human connection through the arts and public performance!

This program is open to all on a first-come, first-served basis.

Who should sign up: Older Adults, ages 50 and over

2 weekly sections to choose from:

• Fridays, 9 - 10:30 AM, October 3 - December 12, 2025. Enrollment limit: 10 individuals.

• Saturdays, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, October 4 - December 13, 2025. Enrollment limit: 10 individuals.

Other Project Details: each section will meet for 10 contact sessions. The final session will be a public presentation at which participants will demonstrate the dance skills they’ve learned and the choreography they helped create. Family, friends, and KMA supporters will be invited. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions, however attending on a drop-in basis is allowed. Please check KMA’s calendar to see the dates when each contact session and final presentation is scheduled for. Ages 50 and over are welcome.

Location: Manhattan Plaza Health Club Conference Room, 482 West 43rd St., (at 10th Ave) in Manhattan

Cost: Free. Donations to KMA are welcomed.

Registration Process: Choose your preferred section - Fridays or Saturdays. In the registration form, you will be able to book spots for each class date you will be attending by changing the “0” to a “1”. While signing up for all class dates is not required, it is highly recommended to ensure that student will be ready for the final presentation. Choose your section by clicking one of these:

Liability waiver: First time students to Keoni Movement Arts, please sign our online form by going here.

Questions? Please contact us directly at info@keonimovementarts.org.

Major support for this project was provided by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Additional support provided by the Marta Heflin Foundation and our generous donors. Become a donor by clicking here.