PORTUGOATS • Thank you SO much to @lugarpresente and @movement_lisboa for having @gianninot and I in Viseu and Lisboa last week for a fabulous week of dance, research and a taste of the summer to come! BAAAAAHHH 🩷🧡🩷🧡
📷/🎥: Tomás Pereira
Another from the archive because here I’m dancing at @omridru in 2014 and now I’m dancing with him again in multiple projects because #dancefam ♥️♥️♥️
From Mamootot by Ohad Naharin for @batshevadancecompany
What moves us? What sparks us? How does the body appear when we are excited, scared, confident, embarrassed, exhausted, waiting, or bored?
Peridance welcomes Billy Barry (@billybarry ) and Gianni Notarnicola (@gianninot ) for their Movement and Emotions Guest Classes!
🗓️ Thursday, February 12: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
🗓️ Tuesday, February 17: 11:30 - 1:00 PM
⭐ Open Level
This Open Movement and Emotions Guest Class focuses on #emotions and their physical manifestations, exploring how the body can move from an emotion and how — through different materials and qualities of #movement — the body can also generate emotion from within.
Throughout the session, material will be created together with the #dancers and, through Billy’s and Gianni’s guidance, students will investigate movement language through #improvisation, choreography, and movement codes that can express emotional states, inner landscapes, or narrative structures.
Billy Barry (New York, USA) and Gianni Notarnicola (Puglia, Italy) began their journey as co-creators while dancing together in the Batsheva Dance Company. Inspired by each other’s natural quirks and distinct movement languages, they began to develop a shared choreographic voice—merging their personal vocabularies into a new, #playful physical language.
To sign up for their Guest Classes, visit Peridance.com or click the link in our bio!
“Watching freelance artist and educator Billy Barry lead a recent GagaLab, it’s clear he doesn’t lean into predictability,” writes @bkerollis . “Guiding dancers through the wildly dynamic movement of Batsheva Dance Company house choreographer, Ohad Naharin, Barry suddenly lets out a startling squeal. In this moment, he simultaneously creates a safe space for experimentation while encouraging students to follow his lead and let loose.”
At the link in our bio, Barry breaks down his training, teaching method, and most valuable lessons.
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📝: @bkerollis
📸: Photo by @effygrey_photography , courtesy @billybarry .
📸: Photo by Anafaza by Ascaf, courtesy @billybarry .
📸: Photo by @hannahlmayfield , courtesy @billybarry .
#BillyBarry #Gaga #Gagaworkshop #Danceteacher #danceeducation
Image descriptions
1) Billy Barry stands in a dance studio surrounded by students. He wears a pale yellow tank top and colorful, billowy shorts. Text: How Billy Barry Is Pushing the Gaga Practice
2) Billy Barry dances under a string of lights wearing a silver costume. He leans his torso forward and swings both arms parallel to the ground. Text: “I enjoy guiding others through improvisation side by side. Exploring and sharing how our bodies can move, I see people’s minds expand in the same way mine did when I first discovered Gaga.” —Billy Barry
3) A headshot of Billy Barry wearing a black shirt against a warm background. Text: Learn more at the link in our bio.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Closed the last weeks of 2025 happily bouncing between homes, old and brand new. In New York, North Italy, Paris and Taipei, fam and I, we danced, we sang, we performed, we taught, we learned, we observed, we absorbed, we hot spring-ed, we cold plunged, we drank it up, we ate it up and got serious about how cute 2026 will be. 2025, you were an international dream of firsts and I’ll remember you fondly. Especially Heated Rivalry 🥰
