Dance. Create. Connect.
Madre Project is an inclusive community dance space for adults of all movement backgrounds to reconnect with their creative energy. Blending performance, collaboration, and education, the project celebrates the body as a source of discovery and artistry. Through accessible classes and creative labs, participants explore movement while strengthening their connection to the form and to each other.
Now a community of nearly 70 members, Madre Project offers weekly contemporary classes open to the public and a newly launched company for adults returning to performance. On December 13th, 2025 Madre Project performed for the first time to a sold out crowd at Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center.
Your support will help cover production needs and fuel future initiatives such as artist salons, studio rentals, retreats, and somatic workshops.
Andrea Murillo & Chaya Ferguson
Co-founders
Intermediate Contemporary
This class is a space for adults who want to move with curiosity, joy, and presence. We begin with a gentle somatic approach—tuning into breath, sensation, and alignment—to ground ourselves and awaken the body. From there, we move into phrase work that builds progressively, serving as a foundation for alignment, weight shifts, and spatial awareness. It’s a supportive space where you can deepen your technique, explore expression, and reconnect with the pleasure of moving. Whether you're returning to dance or continuing your journey, you're welcome here.
Saturdays 11AM - 1PM
Open Arts Studio
68 Jay Street, Studio 605A,
6th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Madre Project is excited to welcome guest teachers Noah Wang, Jordan Morley, & Andrea Farley Shimota
All classes will be intermediate level and take place at Open Arts Studios
Guest Teacher Series
Guest Teacher Schedule
March 28th - Noah Wang
April 11th - Andrea Farley Shimota
April 18th - Jordan Morley
Noah Wang
Saturday March 28th
11am - 1pm
Noah Wang is a movement artist and educator from San Francisco, CA, where he received training at the San Francisco Ballet School and Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA). He holds a BFA in dance from The Juilliard School, where he studied ballet, modern, post-modern, contemporary, composition, and pedagogy. Noah has performed professionally with numerous choreographers and companies, including Alonzo King LINES Ballet, LA Dance Project, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Sleep No More by Punchdrunk NYC, and The Metropolitan Opera.
Noah’s class incorporates the fundamentals of ballet and modern legwork and articulation with the practices of mindfulness, breathwork, and full-body-space connection derived from the GYROTONIC™️ and GYROKINESIS™️ Methods. Class will begin on the floor with gentle exercises that cultivate warmth and mobility in the spine, hips, shoulders and trunk, followed by standing movement sequences that will gradually grow in size, range, spaciousness, duration and dimensionality. This class is for movers of all backgrounds!
Upcoming Workshop
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This somatic workshop is open to seasoned movers and dancers as well as TRUE beginners. In the session, Andrea will guide participants through a gentle yet expansive movement practice rooted in somatic awareness, breath, and sensation—designed to restore mobility, release tension, and deepen connection to the body. The workshop emphasizes listening, curiosity, and embodiment, offering tools that support both artistic expression and everyday well-being.
This session is limited to 10 participants to allow for individualized support and hands-on guidance.
Stay tuned for our next session