We’re celebrating everyone who brings daddy energy to parenting with a pop up Baby Dance Club™️ “Daddy Vibes” class on Sunday, November 10th in collaboration with Seventh Son Brewing Co. This class is for Dads/Moms-who-Dad/Dads-who-Mom/Parents-that-Dad/Caregivers and Daddy Admirers of all varieties/and of course, the babies!

Partners, friends, and family are encouraged to take this class together and enjoy it as a playful and gentle way to connect with your little ones and create community.

Sunday, November 10th | 11:00-12:00pm | $20 per Family | Hosted by Seventh Son Brewing Co.

In honor of the autumn, in the wake of Samhain and the Day of the Dead, Tanya Calamoneri and Michael J. Morris are offering a special three-hour edition of Butoh Methods.

Butoh Methods explores practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
3-6pm
$20 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds

Join Russell and the Nurture Columbus crew at Flux Flow Dance Center for a special Baby Dance Club™️ class followed by some Tummy Time, facilitated by Nurture Columbus!

Do you want to have a feature on the Flux Flow Instagram? Now’s your chance! We’re looking for Community Members who are willing to pose, model, dance, and participate in a FREE, staged, open-levels “class” led by Russell! He’ll be snapping pics and videos throughout the hour. Come as you are and get ready to sparkle ✨

It’s fun for the whole family!

Join Russell at Momi Land Gahanna:

310 Hamilton Road, Gahanna, Ohio 43230

on October 13th from 9:30-10:30am for Baby Dance Club™️ followed by playtime at “the best indoor playground in Ohio”!

For the first thirty minutes of the event, Russell will lead a Baby Dance Club™️ class. The final half is full of fun! Come connect with other local parents while your little ones connect to their creativity through play!

Cost to register is $20/family (2 Child + 2 Adults). Every additional Adult is $5, every Additional child is $10. Adults will must sign waivers, provided by Momi Land, and return to the front desk (at Momi Land) on the day of the class.

Join us at Flux Flow Dance Center for an event to round off our Community Fundraiser!

On Sunday, October 6th, you're invited to Flux Flow Dance Center for a screening of Lovely & Awful (2019), a FluxFlow Dance Project performance. At the conclusion of the film, participants can stick around for a dance party & light refreshments!

About a year ago, the Flux Flow community experienced the joy of traveling to Florence, Italy for a dance retreat for the first time.

This year, we want to make this experience of sharing dance, art and wonderful food available to more community members.

We are asking for your help to raise money so that we can offer a need-based scholarship to one applicant in our dance community.

If you’ve participated previously in this retreat and want to share it with someone else, if you’re unable to go but would like to give someone else the opportunity, if you are just a fabulous generous supporter of the community and it’s offerings, please consider donating what you can to help us make this happen. Even if it’s only a small amount, it would mean a lot to us to make this retreat accessible to more people in our community!

More about the Scholarship:

This scholarship provided by community donations and will be assigned to an applicant, selected by lottery, who is a current and active member of our community that identifies as queer.

Our time in Italy is focused specifically on queer interpretations and histories of renaissance art, and the goal of this scholarship is to provide access to this unique opportunity for a queer member of our community.

This scholarship is available for the next upcoming retreat on May 2025.

The scholarship will cover the full or partial cost of participation in the retreat for the chosen community member. The retreat scholarship will cover a stay in a triple room at an historic villa in the Tuscan Hills, a chef services, dance workshop, museums visits and transportation once you’re in Florence for the total value of $3,500.

Flux Flow Dance Center is thrilled to be collaborating with the Columbus Museum of Art for a weeklong creative intensive with an intergenerational group of dancers from the Flux Flow community. Participants are spending the week rehearsing every evening at the museum to create a new work. The week will culminate in a public performance Sunday, August 18th in the Walter Wing, interacting with the Robin F. Williams exhibit “We’ve Been Expecting You”.

About “Grin”:

Figures in the Robin F. Williams: “We’ve Been Expecting You” exhibit grin broadly in self-satisfaction. They don’t shy away from the viewer’s gaze or try to make their smiles pleasing. By refusing shame and transforming it into satisfaction and pleasure, they embody a queer narrative. The dance performers interact with Williams’s figures by creating a living sculpture as they alternate between grins of smug self-indulgence and a dance ritual of collective joy and connection. Set to Charli xcx and Billie Eilish’s teasing collaboration “Guess” on loop, viewers see the group continuously choose shamelessness, pleasure, and connection within a durational performance that celebrates resilience alongside rest and regeneration.

Wanna see the performance?
We’re organizing ticketing through Momence and will have a pay-what-you-can scale to book a spot for the show at the price that works for you!

$35 Super Supporter Rate
$25 Supporter Rate
$15 Standard Rate
$10 Community Rate
$0 Free Admission

In collaboration with The Junto Hotel

Join us Sunday, August 18 at 11:00am for a special Baby Dance Club™️ class with Russell Lepley in the Franklin Ballroom at The Junto! Stay after class for coffee and cuddles at Maudine's!

Baby Dance Club™ is a 30 minute dance class for the parents and caregivers of babies 0-18 months old and their babies! The class is designed to create community and joy for adult participants while providing tools to connect with babies through dance. No baby music here! We'll have a fun, upbeat playlist to get us dancing and laughing. The class has seated alternatives. We understand that people who have given birth may need to modify and take breaks and that will be encouraged and celebrated.

Flux+Flow creates an inclusive and joyful space for dance whose values are grounded in the conviction that all dancing bodies are beautiful regardless of age, race, size, gender expression, and dis/ability.

There is no dress code- we welcome you to wear attire that you feel comfortable moving in Feel free to wear socks, dance shoes, or dance barefoot!

Parking is available on the surrounding streets (free on Sundays), nearby garages, and at our valet for an additional cost.

Come see what the Local Retreat is all about!

Russell, Fili, and the Local Retreat participants invite you down to the serene Retreat at Evans Farms on Saturday, July 27th from 2:30-4:30pm for a performance and event celebrating everyone’s hard work over the course of the retreat!

This performance, produced in just one week, features 10 Flux Flow community members and will take place inside the beautifully renovated and refurbished Milton Historic Barn. Following the performance, there will be a small reception with refreshments (and more dancing, of course!).

The Retreat at Evans Farms is located just an hour outside of Columbus at:

2694 Liberty Rd,

New Carlisle, OH 45344

Like all performance projects, we’re offering tickets on a PWYC Scale, ranging from Free Admission to our Super Supporter Rate.

Hurry! There’s limited seating and tickets are required for entry. We’ll see you there! ❤️

Free Admission | $0

Community Rate | $10

Standard Rate | $15

Supporter Rate | $25

Super Supporter Rate | $35

Nailing it! A Manicurated Dance Class ✨💅🏻

Join us on July 7 . 3-4pm . with Fili

In collaboration with Ashely Fearn (@ashslaynails)

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Let’s be fabulous and let’s dance with our freshly done hands, and of course NAILS! 😍

We are so excited to collaborate with Ashley Fearn for this event. Ash is a talented nail artist and also a community member. We love this!

The choreography will consist in a chair dance, I know there’s even a chair, that will be centered on hands movements. 🔥

Can’t wait for this and I hope you can’t ether! 🌈

$55 all included ( nails and dance class ) 😱

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For organization purposes, registration for the event will be closing on June 30th.

You’ll be able to schedule your appointment with @ashslaynails up to two weeks before the event.

You can reach out directly to her once you have signed up or wait for her to contact you to schedule.

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More from Ashley Fearn:

I’ve always been passionate about self-care and self-expression through art. Now, as a nail technician, I bring that same passion to every manicure, crafting personalized nail art experiences that elevate individual style and confidence. But my journey isn't just about nails; it's about creating a safe space and cultivating growth within my community.

Flux Flow Dance Center and Bookspace are once again partnering up with Bianca Debonair, Mikayla Denise and Ava Aurora Foxx for a story hour! The event will start with readings and finish with a little family dance party led by Russell Lepley. 🥳

Kids of all ages are welcome! Creating trans and queer affirming events for youth is so important to us as a queer family and we’re so excited to share this with you all! Please support this event by being there with your family and sharing this event! We will also be live streaming the readings so you can join from home or anywhere in the world!

Flux Flow and Bookspace will be donating their portion of the proceeds to Kaleidoscope Youth Project a wonderful organization for queer youth in Columbus.

Registration is $25/family*

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

 Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

Join Scott Orts, LMT and fellow Flux and Flow dancer Cynthia Westover for Flux and Flex, a 90 minute class dedicated to exploring tips and tricks to help you listen to your body before, during, and after dance.

Participants will learn about the body in movement and at rest and how to address joint and muscle issues through learning about body alignment and using simple massage techniques.

Scott is a licensed massage therapist specializing in pain management for 13 years. He works with dancers, athletes, and clients from 6-94 presenting with a wide range of conditions and illnesses. Scott can also share his own experience coming to dance at age 56 at Flux and Flow! Scott’s practice welcomes diversity including all body sizes, abilities, races, sexualities, genders, and religions.

Everyone is welcome to come and participate in our Community Clothing Swap! Bring as many pieces as you'd like, including clothing, outerwear, shoes, accessories, tchotchkes, and more... or just come to shop! All ticket sales will be donated to Kaleidoscope Youth Center, and leftover or unclaimed clothes will be donated to Out Of The Closet. Tickets are a sliding scale donation. We also welcome cash or PayPal donations at the door!

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

 Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

In collaboration with Seventh Son Brewing Company.

A light-hearted event for ballet lovers and beer enthusiasts, Barre at the Bar welcomes everyone (no dance experience required!) to "sample" the basics of ballet along with sampler tray of beers from Seventh Son Brewing Company. Share your passion for dance with a friend and take advantage of the "liquid courage" to try something new.

Pricing includes entry and one sampler tray of beer.

Flux Flow Dance Center is thrilled to be collaborating with the Columbus Museum of Art for a weeklong creative intensive with an intergenerational group of 48 dancers from the Flux Flow community. Participants are spending the week rehearsing every evening at the museum to create a new work. The week will culminate in a public performance Sunday, March 10th in The Pavilion at 2pm.

This performance will be the first installment of “Particular Friends”—a new performance series by Flux Flow. This series is in conversation with research from Flux Flow’s dance retreats in Florence, Italy where their community members traveled to explore queerness in the Renaissance through art and architecture of the period. It will also be informed by our reading of the book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy”. For this week of creation we’ll be focusing on ecstasy, devotion, faith, and mysticism.

Wanna see the performance?
We’re organizing ticketing through Eventbrite and will have a pay-what-you-can scale to book a spot for the show at the price that works for you!

$20 Supporter Rate
$10 Standard Rate
$5 Community Rate
$0 Free Admission

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

Pricing: $20 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds*
*Please email info@flux-flow.com for information about Pay What You Can rates for this workshop. 

Join pelvic floor therapist and sex counselor, Sarah Highland, and Sex Therapist, Abigail Hust as they provide an introduction into sexuality after becoming a parent.

This class addresses physical and emotional changes related to pregnancy, birth and/or the adjustment to parenting. You will learn about pelvic floor anatomy and function, as well as common changes during pregnancy or after birth. We discuss desire, arousal and connecting to your sexuality.
 


We will share strategies on navigating this period and tools to connect to your sexual self and communicate with your partner(s) to increase sexual pleasure. 
 


Pelvic floor health and sexuality are broad topics, that intersect with so many other aspects of humanity. This course is meant to be an introduction based upon common concerns reported during this time.

The price for this workshop is $25, but we can also offer a pay-what-you-can rate to accommodate your needs. Email info@flux-flow.com with the subject       "[YOUR NAME]– Workshop PWYC Rate" to learn more.

Butoh Methods is a monthly workshop for exploring practices drawn from the lineage of butoh, a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh practices experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.

Each two-hour monthly workshop will be facilitated by Tanya Calamoneri, Michael J. Morris, or other rotating guest facilitators.

 No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

4-6pm on the second Saturday of each month

Pricing: $20 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds*
*Please email info@flux-flow.com for information about Pay What You Can rates for this workshop. 

Diva Dances is a 90 minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs. This workshop focuses on using performance tools like musicality and character work to bring the drama to life! Classes begin with a short warm up before diving straight into learning the combination. If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

We’ll be dancing to I Surrender by Céline Dion– one of Fili's personal favorite Divas. Come for the drama, stay for the dancing!

In this class we will awaken our attention, warm up our muscles and our capacity to be curious, and practice techniques for toning our bodies/minds to give and receive weight and energy in motion. We will improvise, we will play, and we will dive into the unknown!

Lilianna Kane is a dancer and chef, currently invested in Contact Improvisation and Collective Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions and paying attention. She is curious about the disruption of normative culture through dancing and gathering. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally. She is currently the head chef at The Field Center in Bellows Falls, VT, where she also has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. Website: www.liliannakane.com

Anna Vomacka is driven by her curiosities and cravings for community, connection, and spaces of shared learning / (un)learning. Perhaps it is through this desire to connect and preserve her childishly-curiosities that Anna found (and stuck with/got stuck to) dance and movement. Anna’s work explores: collective realities, shared intimacy, idiosyncratic differences, physical manifestations of self-imposed & socially imposed labels, power of identity, emergence of community, and recycling of movements, dancers, ideas, waste. Anna graduated from the Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance. While there she worked with Bebe Miller on the creation of two original works. Working extensively with former Trisha Brown dancer, Vicky Shick, Anna performed a recreation of Brown’s “Glacial Decoy” (1979). She was part of Ryan Kelly & Brennan Gerard’s Bessie award winning instillation “Timelining”, which premiered at The Kitchen (2014) and was later shown at the Guggenheim (2015). Anna was the recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Alumni Space Grant in 2019. Also in 2019, Anna performed in Mei Yamanaka’s “If You, Then There”. Anna has been working with Nami Yamamoto since 2017, together they performed at “Troopers Brother” at St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Labapalooza (Puppetry Theater).

Tanya Calamoneri and Michael J. Morris are excited to offer a joint workshop bringing together practices drawn from their studies and experiences of butoh. Butoh is a postmodern dance form that emerged in Japan in the 1950s in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, which has now migrated and evolved in many directions around the world.
Butoh methods experiment with perception by engaging with a multitude of images. Butoh invites surrender in the sense of letting go of rigid or static ideas of self and opening to who or how else we might become. It is a dance that was born as a protest against the alienation of humanity, and butoh practice can be both a profoundly healing and artistically refreshing mode of expression.
This will be a three-hour introductory workshop, sharing a series of facilitated experiences from Tanya and Michael’s own practices as well as those of their teachers and collaborators. There will be a short break about halfway through the workshop.

No previous experience with butoh or any other dance form required.

Pricing: $30 per person, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Tanya Calamoneri performed and toured with Shinichi Koga’s butoh company inkBoat from 2000-2003 and then moved to NYC where she founded physical theater group Company SoGoNo from 2003-2014. Her work has received NY Innovative Theater awards and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Arts Foundation. She has been on faculty at Colgate University, Texas Tech University, and taught masterclasses at NYU, Temple University, Stonybrook University, TWU, Drexel, Universidad del Estado de Mexico and Escuela de Danza Contemporanea in Mexico City, and numerous community studios in San Francisco and New York. She draws from butoh, physical theater, clown, aerial, and Western contemporary and classical dance. She loves to work with props and installation-type sets, and her movement is driven by interplay with images and non-human states. She teaches dance and wellness at The Ohio State University.

Michael J. Morris is an artist, astrologer, tarot reader, writer, educator, and facilitator. They hold a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University. Their work is concerned with destabilizing normative categories through which bodies are made to live and proliferating difference as an irreducible multiplicity through which more lives might come to matter. They have had the opportunity to teach internationally at ImPulTanz (Austria), Ponderosa (Germany), and SNDO—the School for New Dance Development (Netherlands). They were a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University from 2015-2021, and they have previously facilitated workshops and lectured at University of Michigan, Middlebury College, California State University Long Beach, The College at Brockport SUNY, Point Park University, Oberlin College, University of Wisconsin Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Otterbein University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and The Ohio State University. Michael has studied Butoh in both the U.S. and at the Kazuo Ohno Studio in Yokohama, Japan.

This Workshop is BYOF (Bring Your Own Fan)

Diva Dances is a 90 minute workshop will pay homage to one of Fili’s favorite divas by making an epic dance to one of their greatest songs. This workshop focuses on using performance tools like musicality and character work to bring the drama to life! Classes begin with a short warm up before diving straight into learning the combination. If you love Dance Party & Dance Karaoke classes, you’ll love Diva Dances!

We’ll be dancing with fans (!!!) to Bizet: Carmen by Maria Callas. We do have a limited quantity of fans to provide, but they are fragile! If you imagine fully immersing yourself in character (how could you not?), then we suggest you bring your own hand-held fan to flourish!

Past Divas include: Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe, and Tina Turner.

PC: Sumner Howels