New Dialect

We had an extraordinary time premiering Echo Mother last weekend. Heartfelt thanks to our friends at @stewartowendance + @worthamarts for the invitation to share with your communities in Asheville and to @southartsorg @bastionnashville and @metrodancenashville for your support. ✨ Echo Mother Choreography @banningbouldin Performers @banningbouldin + @phyliciaroybal Assistant + collaborator @madison_brott Lighting + production Josh Weckesser Wardrobe @victoria.bek Produced by @stewartowendance @worthamarts with major funding support from @southartsorg @neaarts 📸 @tanjakuic

attune your mind, strengthen your body, deepen your creative practice & grow your community ✨ Spring 2026 Community Classes March 2 - May 20 Mondays + Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 AM & 10:35-12 PM Morgan Park Recreation Center swipe ➡️ to see our expanded offerings, weekly schedules, location, and to check out our incredible line up of artists ✨ walk ups are always welcome #newdialect #nashvilledance #community big thanks to @tnartscommission @metroartsnash @communityfoundationmidtn @metrodancenashville for your support

Facilitating communal research + nonbinary partnering for @new_dialect at @worthamarts Thanks for having us @stewartowendance 🫂

Meet Community Class teaching artists MAUVETAUPE / @mauvetaupe.friends @phyliciaroybal @spencerjgrady This week Spencer & Phylicia will be offering DUET BUILDING May 11th & 13th 10:35am-12:00pm @ Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: Phylicia and Spencer share their unique practices for choreographing duets as MauveTaupe. This class will focus on their 2024 original work, “Another Duet”. Class will begin with character development exercises utilizing emotional states and props. This will lead in to an exploration of choreography from the piece, where class takers can infuse their own characters into the world of “Another Duet”. ABOUT MAUVETAUPE: MauveTaupe is a dance performance project between Nashville-based dance artists Spencer Grady and Phylicia Roybal. Their dynamic pairing cultivates rich, emotional atmospheres where movement expresses the depths of each artist’s individual and shared identities. MauveTaupe’s creative process incorporates impactful set design, varying global soundtracks, and imagery-inspired improvisation. Phylicia and Spencer have been developing work together since 2022, and they have performed three long-form works presented and supported by Kindling Arts Festival, Animata Arts, and Enactor Productions: Incubator. MauveTaupe recently premiered their first evening length performance, GUTS, at the Darkhorse Theater in November 2025. 🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio 📸: Ben Hoback #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #mauvetaupe #mauvetaupedance

Echo Mother from the wings What a deep pleasure it was to dance this work, and to move grief around and through and out of my body. So many people saw their own stories of caregiving and loss, and I will be sitting with their tears and reflections for years to come. All my gratitude To @phyliciaroybal for your tremendous, generous partnership To @madison_brott for creating with me and for our deep mama friendship To @victoria.bek for making our dream wardrobe To @stewartowendance & @worthamarts team for the heartfelt invitation and support To @new_dialect & @metrodancenashville for the scaffolding to create something so meaningful To @southartsorg for the resources to make sharing our work with southern audiences possible I can’t wait to do it again and again

Introducing Community Class teaching artist AMANDA REICHERT / @amandareichert @animata_arts @g.a.r.a.g.e.c.o This week Amanda will be offering IMPROVISATION + CONTEMPORARY FLOORWORK 5/4 & 5/6 10:35am-12:00pm Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: Class will move through a combination of structured, floor focused exercises and imagery based improvisation. We’ll start on the ground, and work our way up to standing, exploring both patterned and self-discovered ways of moving between levels. We will build towards a movement phrase at the end of class to dance together. ABOUT AMANDA: Amanda Reichert is a freelance dancer and choreographer originally from Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University and has since worked as a freelance artist in both New York City and Nashville. She has presented work for the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space and Center for Performance Research in NYC, the Kindling Arts Festival, The Barbershop Theater, and COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN, at Festival Nómada in El Salvador, and b12 Dance Festival in Berlin. She is a recipient of a FY23 Metro Arts Thrive award, and a FY26 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Amanda is currently collaborating with Metro Parks Dance Division and Animata Arts alongside Sarah Salim and Kathryn Wilkening to help curate residency opportunities for artists in Middle Tennessee, and is also a co-founding member of the Garage Collective, a Nashville based improvisation group. 🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio 📸 Max & Daniel Hardman #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance

Introducing Community Class teaching artist BETSY HULTON / @_betsyhulton This week Betsy will be leading our warm up with ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE 5/4 & 5/6 9:30am-10:30am Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: Alexander Technique: Moving with Awareness and Ease. Bring whole body awareness to all of your movement - from sitting at a computer to dancing - and discover more ease and coordination through identifying excess tension or unnecessary habits. We can learn to do something differently by first undoing; by pausing and consciously choosing. ABOUT BETSY: Betsy brings a background in dance and choreography to her understanding of movement and the Alexander Technique. She certified to teach Alexander many years ago, and teaches both in NYC and Nashville. 🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio 📸 Courtesy of Betsy Hulton #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance #alexandertechnique

Introducing Community Class teaching artist EMMA MORRISON / @efmorrison @g.a.r.a.g.e.c.o @_pydance_ @new_dialect This week Emma will be offering CONTEMPORARY FORMS + IMPROVISATION 4/20 + 4/22 10:35am-12:00pm Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: This contemporary dance class is designed for a range of adult movers, from those with no experience to advanced professional dancers, and focuses on waking the mind and body and enlivening the imagination using sensory-based improvisations. We will tap into articulate physical modes with curiosity and explore skill-building, movement games, and large phrase material done in unison (or not in unison) with the goal of having fun and sweating together. ABOUT EMMA: Emma is a Nashville-based performer, teacher, and choreographer. As a founding member of New Dialect, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Roy Assaf, Yin Yue, Bryan Arias, Rosie Herrera, Banning Bouldin, and more. She is also a key collaborator with Asia Pyron’s celebrated company, PYDANCE. In 2022, Emma co-founded Garage Collective, a site-specific and improvisation project based in Nashville. As an educator, she has taught early childhood movement and contemporary dance through Metro Parks Dance Division since 2013. Emma has also taught workshops at Belmont University, Vanderbilt University, MTSU, TSU, University of the South, Booker T. Washington HSPVA, and Juilliard. 🔗 Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link in our bio 📸 Ben Hoback, Joseph Patrick, Micah Mathewson #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance

Introducing Community Class teaching artist MEGAN CARVAJAL / @meg__carvajal @functionalpatterns Megan will be leading some of our warm up sessions w/ FUNCTIONAL PATTERNS GROUP CLASS April 15, 20, 22 9:30am-10:30am @ Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: Move better and feel stronger in this Functional Patterns group class. We focus on FP’s Big 4 - standing, walking, running, and throwing - to restore natural movement, build resilience, and improve alignment. ABOUT MEGAN: After a lifelong involvement in movement, injuries during her professional career led Megan to becoming a Functional Patterns Human Biomechanics Specialist. Through her work, she now helps people restore natural movement, reduce pain, and feel stronger in their bodies. 🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio 📸: @meg__carvajal #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance

Introducing Community Class teaching artist MCKAY HOUSE / @used_bookstore @_embodied_creativity @g.a.r.a.g.e.c.o This week McKay will be offering CONTACT IMPROVISATION SKILLS April 13th & 15th 10:35am-12:00pm @ Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: This class will explore momentum, weight sharing, and spirals within partnerships, ground dynamics, and solo relating. We will be working together to develop our skills for tracking a partners momentum as well as our own abilities to act and react within an ever-changing environment. When do we choose to soften, to resist, to release, to redirect, to disengage? ABOUT MCKAY: McKay House lives and works in Nashville as a freelance dance and performance artist focusing most of her work on improvisation and dance for camera. She has conceived and performed original works at Future Dance Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Going Dutch Festival, Ladyfest CLT, and most recently the Asheville Fringe Festival. She is a recipient of the FY26 Thrive Grant via Metro Arts Nashville which she is currently utilizing to make a dance film with collaborator and fellow community member Emma Morrison. McKay is a co-founder of Nashville-based dance group Garage Collective as well as the community-driven play workshop Embodied Creativity. 🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio 📸: @emkmoses @haydenmostly @abbyjohnsun #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance

Introducing Community Class teaching artist PHYLICIA ROYBAL / @phyliciaroybal @wav_l_ngth @mauvetaupe.friends @backstagepresents Throughout our spring series Phylicia will be offering GYROKINESIS™️ during our 9:30 warm up sessions ABOUT THE CLASS: The Gyrokinesis Method is a movement method that addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. It is an original and unique method, which coordinates movement, breath and mental focus. Postures are not held for long periods of time. Instead, postures are smoothly and harmoniously connected through the use of breath, making exercises appear and feel more like a dance than traditional yoga. The Gyrokinesis Method is practiced on a mat and chair, without equipment. ABOUT PHYLICIA: Phylicia Roybal is a movement artist originally from Santa Fe, now based in Nashville. She earned her BFA in 2011 from the University of Arizona, where she received the Gertrude Shurr Memorial Award in Modern Dance. Phylicia has performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists, companies, and interdisciplinary festivals nationally and internationally. She works as a freelance solo artist, a certified Gyrokinesis® trainer, and a Gyrotonic® apprentice. She is the co-founder of MauveTaupe and the creator of BACKSTAGE, an outdoor performance platform centered on accessibility, experimentation, and community. Her work is grounded in somatic inquiry, improvisation, and embodied dialogue. 🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio 📸: @bklynn22 #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance

Introducing Community Class teaching artists DOGS EAT WIND (DEW) / @dogseatwind This week DEW will be offering “No Parties for Bad Children” research workshop April 6th & 8th 10:35am-12:00pm @ Morgan Park Community Center ABOUT THE CLASS: In this choreographic workshop we will work with movement and writing prompts, collective games, and individual impulses/decision-making leading to “The Party”, a culminating group performance at the end of each workshop session. To create the action of “The Party” we wil play with character-building using both common social archetypes as well as personal instinct, persona, and alter-ego. ABOUT DEW: Dogs Eat Wind is a collective of artists from Italy and the southern United States born in Rome, Italy in the Winter of 2023. We seek to describe shared experiences through means of the specific, using our personal histories, memories, dreams, and archives to create new worlds on stage built from intimate artifacts and experience. The current interest of Dogs Eat Wind is to consider and question relationships in the context of space and place. 🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + more details at the link in our bio 📸: @emkmoses , @sophiamatinazad #NewDialect #CommunityDance #NashvilleDance #ContemporaryDance