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Move & Groove with the Alloy School

KST Partner

Young Black boy in fedora and t shirt with Levi's log waves a yellow ribbon

At the EQT Children’s Theater Festival

Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 

Saturday, May 18, 2024

10:00am – 5:00pm Tabling Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm On Stage Demo 

Giant Eagle Foundation Backyard at 8th & Penn | 149 8th Street
FREE 

Join us at the EQT Children’s Theater Festival for three interactive presentations with Teaching Artists from The Alloy School in different movement disciplines! Get your body moving with YOGAMOTIF’s Jacquelin Walker inviting all ages to stretch and build strength in Family Yoga. Become the star of your favorite action movie, by getting a glimpse into stage combat techniques with Acting through Movement Instructor, Callee Miles. Nandini Mandal will share the elegance of Bharatanatyam, guiding you through an Introduction to Classical Indian Dance. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the joy of creativity and movement as a family!

Join us before and after the demonstration at The Alloy School Table! Take your own glamor shots at our photo booth, construct your own make-and-take craft with Teaching Artist Juliandra Jones, and learn more about KST’s offerings at The Alloy School and beyond!

This event is made possible with support from RemakeLearning. 

Photo Credit: Delaney Greenburg

 

 

Nandini Mandal is a renowned dancer,teacher of Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance form. She started learning Bharatanatyam under the guidance of her teacher, Guru Snigdha Pal, Kalamandalam Venkitt, Preetha Venkitt, India and completed her Sangeet Prabhakar degree in Bharatanatyam. She is Adjunct Faculty at Point Park University, teaching Introduction to Bharatanatyam — history, culture and technique. 

 

Callee Miles is a Pittsburgh based actor, fighter, and fight choreographer. She has performed with Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, PICT, and Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks. New York credits include Hamlet Isn’t Dead, The Argyle Theatre, New York Fringe Festival, and performances at the world famous 54 Below.  She holds a Bachelors of Music from Baldwin Wallace University’s Music Theatre program where she was awarded the Beverly Buck-Meyer scholarship for excellence in performance. Callee is also a trained Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.

 

Jacquelin Walker is a yoga facilitator whose yoga practice and instruction focuses on sharing tools that help others create self-awareness with an eye toward individual and collective healing and expansion, centering principles of justice, joy, rest, and leisure. She is a graduate of the YogaRoots on Location 200-hour YTT.

 

 

YOGAMOTIF recognizes that a regular yoga or movement ritual and participation in creative activities can support well-being – through mindful, autonomous, and creative-based practices, guests build holistic wellness routines that exist beyond the yoga mat. Whether supporting community wellness, pregnant bodies in prenatal yoga, or creative experiences through Yoga Paint Party workshops, Yogamotif joyfully prepares each student for life’s labor and the art, inspiration, and babies they might birth.