Moving Music Workshop: A One-Week Intensive
Classes: August 17-21 | 6:00-9:00 PM
Performance: August 22 | 7:00 PM
No experience is necessary. Open to musicians, movers, and creative explorers
What happens when musicians and movers stop working side by side and start creating together? This week-long workshop explores the rich space where rhythm, sound, and movement meet, influence one another, and evolve into something entirely new.
Through improvisation, collaborative composition, and hands-on experimentation, participants will discover how bodies in motion can shape music—and how movement transforms in response to sound.
This is not about learning choreography or reading charts. It’s about what emerges in between: the unexpected, the unrepeatable, and the truly co-created. The week culminates in a live showing of original work in the MCG Jazz Music Hall—a celebration of everything created together.
This workshop will be leady by Kaylin Horgan. Horgan is a Pittsburgh-based choreographer, performer, and educator. As a performer, she has worked with Esperanza Spalding's touring ensemble as a soloist dancer, creative collaborator, and vocalist, toured with Pillow Project across Europe and the UK, and performed with Antonio Brown Dance, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company, and the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble. Her own choreographic work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), The Hague (Netherlands), and United Dance Project (Bermuda). Recent credits include Annie (Pittsburgh Musical Theater), A Mother's Love (MCG Jazz, Pittsburgh — part of a residency with Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and composer Ray Angry), and The Way of Light (Mulvane Art Museum, Salina, Kansas), a work written by Vanessa German. She teaches at Point Park University and Slippery Rock University and holds a Master's degree in Arts Administration from Goucher College (2026).
Details: $200 for full week and performance. Limited to 12 participants. Advanced online registration and completed on-site release form required. All ages welcome.
"Over the Hump Day" - Wednesday Sound Experiences
June 10, June 24, July 8, & August 5 | 7-8 PM
Take a midweek pause to immerse yourself in a relaxing and restorative sound experience. This session blends a soothing mixture of healing instruments, including gongs, crystal bowls, tubular bells, drums, flutes, and much more.
Each class begins with a guided meditation to gently ease you into a peaceful, grounded state. Two certified practitioners will guide you through this journey, creating a calming and supportive environment for relaxation and renewal.
Comfortable, thick mats are provided, though you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
After the session, guests are invited to stay and explore the instruments with a brief guided introduction.
Details: $35/session. Limited to 12 participants per session. Advanced online registration and completed on-site release form required. All ages welcome.