ADRIANNA THOMPSON
Adrianna danced professionally in New York City with Battery Dance Co, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Co, Mark DeGarmo & Dancers, and worked with Bella Lewitzky, Milton Myers, Jonathan Wolken, Brenda Daniels, Risa Steinberg, and Mary Jane Eisenberg. In NYC her choreography was presented at Joyce SoHo, the Cunningham Studio, The Riverside Theatre, Mulberry Street Theater, the Downtown Arts Festival, Trisha Brown Studios, Movement Research, Theater for the New City and Dance Space.. She was on faculty for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet for ten years, and guest faculty for Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA training program. She received a BFA in Dance from Cal State Long Beach and was awarded Performance of the Year by the Boston Globe.
In 2011 Adrianna became the Director of Dance for the Aspen Fringe Festival and was commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum to create a site-specific work as part of the museum’s Alan Shields exhibit, as well as a dance outreach program for children in 2017. She is a GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® Specialized Master Teacher and has been practicing the method for 30 years​​
TESTIMONIALS
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"I have taken several workshops with Adrianna and it was always an amazing experience. I learned so much from her. She is a wonderful teacher and very generous. I enjoyed each moment. Her classes are full of energy and rhythm, she mixes in perfect alchemy all the years of experience with a beautiful creative and unique way to teach."
- Manola Alba, owner of Centre UMA Studio in Paris, France
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"Adrianna consistently values the individual, celebrating her students strengths, providing guidance and encouraging the importance of becoming a teacher. Adrianna has a keen ability to listen to the needs of her students. She is highly skilled at structuring and sequencing material, authentic and immensely empowering."
-Irene Rampino SMT, MFA, MSPT
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"Adrianna is an incomparable GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® Master. She is a great professional - passionate and generous with a beautiful energy and an incredible sense of rhythm and breathing. I feel really fortunate to have assisted her in my own way to become a Master and to have worked and learned a lot with and from her. With Adrianna you are not just doing GYROTONIC®, we are moving and living GYROTONIC®... and you love it !!"
- Nathalie Longeville Pasquier, GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer
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