The Floor on Atlantic

POST-PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP
FALL SESSION WITH
NATTIE TROGDON AND HOLLIS BARTLETT

Sundays 12:00-2:00pm
September-December

The Floor’s Post Professional Performance (PPP) workshop acts as a platform for dancers (27+) to continue work in the studio and on stage. The goal of this workshop is to offer an opportunity to enjoy the process and performance of dance amongst fellow peers.

For more information see link in bio

Meet our Youth Choreo Course Choreograpers and

We are so excited about this upcoming program and look forward to watching this choreographic process unfold!

Registration link in bio 💫

YOUTH CHOREO COURSE

This 10-week course is designed to give young people (ages 13-16) the opportunity to work with professionals in the dance field. The hope, is this process gives dancers exposure to the choreographic process and rehearsal environment, developing their creative spirit and sense of community amongst fellow peers.

Each session will create an original piece, culminating in an in-studio performance.

The fall 2024 session will run from September-December.

Link to register in bio and stories!

SUMMER ON ZOOM!

For the months of July & August, we will be holding Pilates Mat classes on Zoom.

Wednesday 9:30-10:15am EDT
Friday 10:30-11:15am EDT
$20/class

See you on a mat!

SUMMER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE💫

Applications due tomorrow!!!

This summer program provides 3 hours a week (35 hours total) of fully subsidized studio space over the course of 3 months: June-August 2024

In addition to studio space, the Artist in Residence will receive a 10-class package and a 3 month Video Library Membership.

Our hope is to offer an artist the time and space to develop work in a welcoming environment.

The residency is open to all artists (dancers, actors, singers, musicians, etc

Announcement on: Monday, May 13th

Application link in bio!

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Sedrick Huckaby. “The Bride to Be,” 2015. Mixed media on paper. “I believe my paintings are done in a language more closely in tune with my soul than the language of my tongue. For me, the act of painting is not just a means to a product; it is also a meditative process of communication.” -

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Students across the US are demanding that their universities disclose and divest from companies that support the Israeli occupation. These brave protesters understand that their institutions and their tuition fees are supporting this genocide. But even if you’re not a student at one of these big colleges, the misuse of money is clear.

Israel controls everything that enters and leaves Gaza (including books to read, and bricks to build colleges) but the people of Gaza still managed to create 12 universities to educate themselves. Palestine has one of the highest adult literacy rates in the entire world.

Now Israel, with the support of the US, has now severely damaged or entirely destroyed every single one of those universities.

Children in Gaza have not been able to attend school since October. In the West Bank too, children are forced to miss school or do remote learning because of Israeli road closures and Israeli settler violence. Call it educide, call it scholasticide, call it epistemicide - whatever words you say, it reveals the desire to eradicate Palestinian culture and dignity. It also shows us that the US government is far more interested in its allyship with Israel than educating its own people.

Source: United Nations, 2023

Get it while it lasts!

5 MAT CLASSES FOR $110
expires 2 months after purchase date

Link in Bio 💫

To support our fellow teaching practitioners, The Floor offers rental space to independent instructors to work with their clients.

Our front studio includes Balanced Body Equipment:
-x2 Studio Reformers
-Centerline Cadillac
-EXO Split Pedal Chair
-Ladder Barrel
-Pedi Pole

Email us to schedule a studio tour or set up your first rental.
pilates instructor

“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow’s edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.”

This beautiful quote is from our book of the season “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

You can sit with this book and many more at the studio.

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In 1968—the year of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the signing of the Civil Rights Act—Gilliam began staining and folding raw canvases and suspending them from the wall, creating immersive bleeds of color.

The works’ tension and free fall—subject to forces beyond the artist’s control—paralleled the social turmoil of the time.

As a Black artist and civil rights leader, Gilliam deliberately worked against the grain. Unlike many of his peers, he refrained from literal depictions or messages in his art. He was committed to abstraction, stating, “the expressive act of making a mark and hanging it in space is always political. My work is as political as it is formal.”

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Sam Gilliam. “10/27/69.” 1969. Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest (by exchange)

Movement Makers!

Our beautiful back studio is available to rent for $10/hour.

We are able to provide this discounted rate thanks to the generosity of the NYC Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program and the

Email [email protected] to book space and visit the link in our bio to learn more.

Thank you for this stunning image

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Source: ACLED fatality data, 2023

The Floor is a movement studio and community space in Brooklyn. Our studios hold space for artists and movement instructors. The Floor offers ongoing Pilates Mat Classes, Book Discussions and Events, as well as an Artist Services Program.

In 2023, our little expanded onto the ground floor. We can’t wait to see what this new year brings.

See you all in the studio soon 💫

This week we are highlighting organizations that are working tirelessly to end the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.

As the largest UN organization in the Gaza Strip and the only UN Agency that implements services directly, UNRWA has been and continues to be in a unique position to deliver emergency assistance to Palestine refugees in Gaza.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has been working tirelessly on the ground in Gaza to provide necessary humanitarian aid and shelter for millions of refugees.

Please join us in supporting

🌟Teaching Artists 🌟
Looking for a studio to hold your movement classes this new year?

The Floor is offering discounted rental rates to dance teachers beginning this January!

$45/hour
12:30-2:30pm
Monday-Friday

Email: [email protected] for more information.

We are taking a brief pause for the Holidays this weekend and the studio will reopen Tuesday, December 26th.

If you are looking for movement over the long weekend, try one of our On Demand classes!

See you soon, friends.

This week we are highlighting organizations that are working tirelessly to end the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.

The Palestinian movement Women of the Sun and the Israeli movement Women Wage Peace agree to work together with determination, persistence and mutual respect in order to bring about the end to the long and bloody conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

This is a historical partnership of women which aims to encourage both sides to support a peaceful resolution of the conflict and to bring the leaders of both sides back to the negotiation table in order to sign an agreement which would ensure freedom, peace and security to women and men on both sides and to our children and future generations.

Join us in supporting

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What does adolescence feel like?🪞

Hellen Van Meene photographs adolescence, capturing it as a fleeting, transitional stage. Van Meene’s images, small and square in format, show her anonymous models at a close half- or three-quarter length range.

Instead of confronting the camera, the young women in these photographs avert their gaze, appearing to be caught by the camera in private, unguarded moments of introspection.

Van Meene purposefully creates a friction between her artful composition and the realism of the unaltered bodies of her subjects, capturing the uneasy tension between the girls’ lingering childhood and their upcoming adulthood.

In their careful arrangement of color, light, and texture, her works imitate traditional, 17th-century paintings from the artist’s native Netherlands, like in the softly lit domestic interior that recall paintings of Johannes Vermeer. ..
📷: Hellen Van Meene, “Untitled,” 1999. © Hellen Van Meene

Join us tomorrow for Self Care @ 12pm 💫

Proceeds from this class will be donated to and

Meatless Monday 🍋

20 minute + 1 Pot Lemon-Ricotta Rigatoni with Broccoli from is perfect for a cold Monday night at home.
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Avoiding meat and dairy is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet. The Floor is joining the Meatless Monday campaign to inspire individuals to cook a meatless option once a week. Enjoy!

Sharing this beautiful image from rehearsing in the studio recently

Visit our website for more information on space rental!

Join us next Sunday, November 12 @ 6pm

Untitled Figure, Unnamed Fugue is crafted as a saltwater taffy flavored dinner party of senses-as-memories. Audiences slip across the worlds of our protagonist, who is embodied by all twelve performers. Together, we swing through time on a pendulum of potential; like line on a fishing reel, the next wave lapping onto shore, or the promise of time well spent.

Organized as a collection of twelve memories-as-moments, “1-11” is performed downstairs for multiple seatings of small audiences, while “12” is screened upstairs where folks are invited to grab a glass of wine or sparkling water.

Ticket link in bio 💫

Meet Anabelle Scarborough, our Fall Artist in Residence

Anabelle is interested in the intersection of movement, the body, clothing and sound with an emphasis on human emotion and experiences. They have shown work extensively in New York, California and North Carolina.

We are excited to have you in the space this season!

The Floor is hosting its first Fundraiser Class benefiting and on:

Thursday, November 16
7:15-8:30
with

We believe collective care is essential to our humanity and to healing the grief that has touched our community. We invite you all to join us.

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Founder of the first gallery dedicated to photography in Tehran, Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh signs an amazing photo book highlighting the vision of 23 Iranian women photographers on a society in the middle of several transformations.

From war to the environmental issues and more intimate subjects, “Espace Vital” presents striking works by women who are often placed in the shadows.

📸 : Newsha Tavakolian

Today we are highlighting a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides free medical care to children in the Middle East, regardless of their nationality, politics or religion.

I’m response to the urgent needs of children in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon, the PCRF runs a wide range of programs including infrastructure projects, humanitarian aid and medical relief.

Once a month, we will be offering a Self Care class with proceeds benefiting this important organization. Please join us.

Today we are highlighting the largest grassroots peace movement in Israel.

The movement is non-partisan and does not support any one specific solution to the conflict. Instead, it empowers women from diverse communities to build trust across divides, leading in turn to a unified demand for diplomatic negotiation, with full representation of women, to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Once a month, The Floor is holding a Self Care class with proceeds being donated to this organization. Please join us.

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Using a brand new account, I put two questions to ChatGPT (a computing system that gives people answers based on a summary of huge amounts of publicly accessible information).

This is why I care about fair journalism, why I care about headlines that say Palestinians “died” and Israelis were “killed” - because we are documenting the present for future artificial intelligence, algorithms and government policies and calculations for how many bombs to buy and where to send them to. ChatGPT, like all artificial intelligence, has been taught by us. We have a responsibility to be thoughtful about how we use our words and to think critically about the words we’re reading, even the ones presented by supposedly neutral sources.

All people deserve justice. But real justice can’t be had if “it’s complicated” for some of us but not for others.

Our silence on social media in the past weeks has been one of choice.

Instead of projecting outward, we turned our focus inward to our immediate community, to hold space and conversations about the developing war and grief throughout the world.

A common thread through all these conversations is the profound sadness of our loss of collective humanity. We have a challenge ahead of us.

The Floor will be holding an ongoing, once a month, Self Care class with all proceeds being split between and

Please join us.