DANCE YOUR FRAME: Contemporary Dance Technique Master Classes

Ballet Teatro

Porto, Portugal

Class begins with a series of floor exercises designed to awaken the feet, spine, center and pelvis. Next, standing center work focuses on technical exercises supported by proper alignment. The class culminates in rhythmical, full-bodied across the floor movement combinations that incorporate the use of turns, jumps, working in and out of the floor, detailed gestures, and diverse dynamics.

The principles emphasized in this class are universally beneficial to dance training and include using the power of the center to initiate, control, and radiate movement, plus pelvis initiation, and the use of under and over curves. Informing this class is Green's certified background in BodyMind Fitness. Exercises are guided with the safe use of body mechanics and neuromuscular imagery, highlighting movement that follows the logic of the body's innate spirals and bone rhythms.

Valerie Green, Executive Director of Dance Entropy will lead:

SKIMMING THE SURFACE: HEALING THROUGH EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT

• “Skimming the Surface: Movement Healing Workshops” aim to support adults that may be overcoming diverse forms of trauma and stress through somatic based expressive movement exercises.

• These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions

• This experience leaves participants feeing expanded and curious about their emotions, with new insights to move forward from.

• Green serves as a guide to help open doorways where each individual will do their personal work, leading them to a heart centered and intuitive place, finding a physical expression and release of emotions and energy whereby a healing process can begin.

Skimming the Surface® will be held at Green Space with a donation-based, pay-what-you-can entry fee, payable upon entry. RSVPs required; please email CompanyManager@danceentropy.org to reserve your spot or complete this form.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. Due to the nature of the workshop, no late arrivals will be admitted.

Skimming the Surface®: Movement Healing Workshops aim to service adult and youth populations that may be overcoming diverse forms of trauma and stress through somatic based expressive movement exercises. These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions.

Each movement journey is handcrafted to best support the participants. Green serves as a guide to help open doorways where each individual will do their personal work, leading them to a heart centered and intuitive place, finding a physical expression and release of emotions and energy whereby a healing process can begin.

Facilitated by Valerie Green: ACCEP, Advanced Certified Core Energetics Practitioner, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy shares a pop up performance of Clepsydra at the 9th Annual QUIP music festival. Saturday September 19th at 5pm & 7pm.

Queens United International Party

A day long festival of global music, dance, food trucks and fun!

Sunnyside Gardens Park

48-21 39th Ave Sunnyside, NY 11104

Tickets https://tinyurl.com/3s2mp4st

Presented as part of their Afternoon TEA Series, Landmark on Main Street hosts Dance Entropy’s work-in-progress production of BEAUTY.

Admission is free - register here!

A short talkback will follow the showing.

Beauty is often understood as something to be shaped, perfected, or consumed.

This dance asks a different question: what does beauty look like when the body is no longer trying to be beautiful? This work explores beauty not as something arranged for the eye, but as something revealed through sensation, effort, and truth. What emerges is not an idealized body, but a living one—imperfect, expressive, and undeniably alive.

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy presents BEAUTY

Wednesday, September 9th, 1:00PM - 2:00 PM

Landmark on Main Street

Jeanne Rimsky Theatre

Skimming the Surface® will be held at Green Space with a donation-based, pay-what-you-can entry fee, payable upon entry. RSVPs required; please email programs@greenspacestudio.org to reserve your spot.

Doors open at 6:30 PM. Due to the nature of the workshop, no late arrivals will be admitted.

Skimming the Surface®: Movement Healing Workshops aim to service adult and youth populations that may be overcoming diverse forms of trauma and stress through somatic based expressive movement exercises. These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions.

Each movement journey is handcrafted to best support the participants. Green serves as a guide to help open doorways where each individual will do their personal work, leading them to a heart centered and intuitive place, finding a physical expression and release of emotions and energy whereby a healing process can begin.

Facilitated by Valerie Green: ACCEP, Advanced Certified Core Energetics Practitioner, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

Join us for a FREE performance of SPLASH! at the NYC Summer Streets Festival in Brooklyn!

Splash! is Valerie Green/Dance Entropy’s summer time wet and wild favorite, join us as we dance it out in buckets of water, to an exciting music water collage. Our activation will also include participation, and water games for all ages. Splash is a great crowd pleaser and tons of fun!

“Splash! is a unique interactive spectacle, an outdoor H20 a go go, loved by both kids and parents.”

—Larry Anderson, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy presents SPLASH!

Sat. Aug. 22nd , 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

NYC Summer Streets

Classon Ave Rest Stop – On Classon Ave. between Eastern Pkwy Service Rd. & President St.

Join us for a FREE performance of BEAUTY at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival ahead of its Spring Premiere!

Beauty is often understood as something to be shaped, perfected, or consumed.

This dance asks a different question: what does beauty look like when the body is no longer trying to be beautiful? This work explores beauty not as something arranged for the eye, but as something revealed through sensation, effort, and truth. What emerges is not an idealized body, but a living one—imperfect, expressive, and undeniably alive.

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy presents BEAUTY

Sat. Aug. 8th, 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival

Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Skimming the Surface® will be held at Green Space with a donation-based, pay-what-you-can entry fee, payable upon entry. RSVPs required; please email programs@greenspacestudio.org to reserve your spot.

Doors open at 5:30 PM. Due to the nature of the workshop, no late arrivals will be admitted.

Skimming the Surface®: Movement Healing Workshops aim to service adult and youth populations that may be overcoming diverse forms of trauma and stress through somatic based expressive movement exercises. These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions.

Each movement journey is handcrafted to best support the participants. Green serves as a guide to help open doorways where each individual will do their personal work, leading them to a heart centered and intuitive place, finding a physical expression and release of emotions and energy whereby a healing process can begin.

Facilitated by Valerie Green: ACCEP, Advanced Certified Core Energetics Practitioner, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

Facilitator: Valerie Green, ACCEP, Advanced Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

Facilitator: Valerie Green, ACCEP, Advanced Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

Beach Boot Warm - Up with Valerie Green will ground dancers to themselves and the environment. By building physicality inside and out in an accessible fun way for all bodies and ages, we will culminate into full bodied movement and connections with others. And get ready to get our Beach Boot ON!

For tickets: https://events.eventnoire.com/e/beachboot-reboot-rockaway-beach

VG/DE will perform Immeasurable and Clepsydra at Rego Park Queens Community House

VG/DE will perform Immeasurable and Clepsydra at Ravenswood Older Adult Center

VG/DE will perform Immeasurable and Clepsydra at Elmcor Golden Phoenix Club Three

Facilitator: Valerie Green, ACCEP, Advanced Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

Join Valerie Green/Dance Entropy for a Free Open Rehearsal for new work-in-progress, Beauty.

Featuring Sophia Diehl, Sydney Foley, Nicole Arakaki, Mizuho Kappa, Tsubasa Nishioka, and Johnny Mathews III.

Sound score in process by Mark Katsaounis, and James Butler

The showing will be followed by a Q&A discussion and light refreshments.

RSVP required: Email Info@GreenSpaceStudio.org

Wednesday, June 10th

Green Space

37 - 24 24th Street #212

Long Island City, NY 11101

Dance Entropy's Artistic Director Valerie Green has spent the year obtaining her Core Energetics Post Graduate Degree with The Institute of Core Energetics.  She is excited to present her thesis Skimming the Surface®:  The Development of an Integrative Somatic Movement Practice

The paper explores the evolution of this work since 2016 and the impact of Core methodology in expanding this practice.  The paper also researches the themes of 30 years of professional dance making, and the impact of Core Energetics on her choreographic process and the repertory of VG/DE. 

Facilitator: Valerie Green, CCEP, Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

May 23, 2026 - 12:00 PM – 2 PM

Address: 37-24 24th Street, Suite 012, Long Island City

Facilitator: Valerie Green, CCEP, Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

**RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY**

May 11, 2026, 6:30 PM

Maspeth Town Hall, 53-37 72nd Street Maspeth

Using expressive movement, this workshop supports adults in releasing stress, letting go of emotional blockages, and reconnecting with their body and feelings. Through guided exercises, participants gently bring stuck energy to the surface, encouraging self-discovery and emotional release.

VG/DE's "Weapons of Time" at the opening of the "Apocalypse of Mother Earth" Environmental Injustice Art Exhibit at Queens College, presented by Art Transforms. The reception will take place THIS Friday, May 8th from 5 PM - 7 PM at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts.

Facilitator: Valerie Green, CCEP, Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

Queens New Music Festival 2026

May 1st, 2026 7:30 PM

Culture Lab LIC

5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101

Vox Novus proudly announces a special presentation of its signature Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project featuring toy piano, with pianist Eunmi Ko and choreographer and dance director Rachael Kosch, as part of the Queens New Music Festival at Culture Lab in Long Island City. This program presents a set of fifteen one-minute works, each composed and choreographed as a unique composer–choreographer pairing, creating a series of distinct collaborations that unite contemporary music and dance in real time performance. The performance will take place on May 1 at 7:30 PM.

Facilitator: Valerie Green, CCEP, Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

Facilitator: Valerie Green, CCEP, Certified Practitioner in Core Energetics, Body/Mind Fitness, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, & Access Bars

When: 10 Every Other Week Sessions, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm

March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th, June 2nd, June 16th, June 30th, July 7th.

Please Note: Attendance of a minimum of 8 sessions is required

Where: Green Space 37-24 24th Street #211, Long Island City

Series Registration Fee: Early Bird: $425, After Feb 1st: $475

REGISTER HERE

8 in Show dance series is curated by Sangeeta Yesley that features 8 dance companies each evening, giving early career and established choreographers of all dance forms an opportunity to showcase new, 5 – 12 minute pieces. Valerie Green/Dance Entropy will be performing Immeasurable.

More Information Here

Tickets Here!