Hope teaches a wide variety of classes and workshops, from modern technique for professionals to creative movement classes for non-professional adults. Below are some examples of Hope's offerings.

Technique class provides a laboratory for expanding our potential for integrated, full-bodied movement. By tuning the senses, moving in and out of the floor, and organizing our energy and structure, we work towards clarity of form, awareness in space, and ease of movement. Rigorous phrasework offers an experience of weight, gravity, momentum, sequential movement, and freedom. Influences for teaching include Alexander technique, Trisha Brown repertory, Cunningham technique, and improvisational forms.

Class: Creative Movement for Cancer Survivors
"I especially liked the ability to express myself via movement in a safe, trusting environment."
--Participant, 2006-07 creative movement class, Palo Alto Community Breast Health Project

This workshop, designed especially for adults who have or had breast cancer, supports healing and community through the joy of movement. This workshop gives participants the opportunity to explore their cancer story through a body-centered creative process. In a safe, supportive environment, class supports healing and positive body image through relaxation, breathing, gentle physical warm-ups, guided visualization, improvisation, verbal sharing, and joyful release through rhythm.  Participants report increased body awareness, better energy, improved posture, and enhanced self-esteem.  Classes are ongoing at Breast Cancer Connections and California Cancer Care.

Workshop: The Language of the Listening Body
Exploring Sound and Movement in the Environment
The Language of the Listening Body nurtured me as an artist and pushed me to reach outside my comfort zone with my perception and my body. I think this is an ideal process for any artist, and I don't know if I've experienced it in such a satisfying way with any other facilitators, choreographers or directors.
--Rebecca Wender, dancer/2006 residency participant

In collaboration with composer and acoustic ecologist Michelle Nagai, Hope offers workshops exploring sound and movement in the environment. Based on initial research done through the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance in New York, Hope and Michelle guide participants in exploring listening awareness and improvisation practices.

Workshop:  Technique for a Versatile Body
"Hope is an effective, generous, knowledgeable teacher who ties together extraordinary concepts and technique in an expansive and enjoyable manner"
-Participant in Technique for a Versatile Body, Dancers' Group Summer Intensive, July 2006

Are you a formally trained dancer interested in accessing more release in your movement, or does release-based movement come naturally to you, but you would like to deepen your technical foundation?  Regardless of your preferences and strengths, this workshop is designed to push your range.  Workshop will support rigorous inquiry into habits of support, phrasing, focus, and tension (or lack thereof). Warm-up facilitates an internal, experiential understanding of initiation, sequencing and weight through awareness, not mimicry. Technical exercises are rooted in principles of alignment and anatomy. Challenging, intricate phrasework covers space and expands our versatility as dancers-both muscle and bone, powerful and articulate, strong and at ease, organized and able to fall.  By expanding our awareness, we can have more choices and a stronger artistic voice.