It is our pleasure to offer this wonderful opportunity to our Brooklyn community, and to welcome anyone who cares about holistic health, mindful practice, and integrative movement. Tickets

Arm balancing is an interest for many movement and yoga practitioners, yet it often comes with physical and technical challenges. In this workshop, I focus on building the core, wrist, and shoulder strength needed to support arm balances safely and effectively. The material offered is designed to be accessible and useful for practitioners from beginner to advanced levels.

I will lead a guided movement and yoga sequence in the first part of the workshop, integrating preparatory and conditioning exercises I’ve developed over the years through my training as a gymnast, dancer, yogi, and martial artist. These exercises are woven seamlessly into the practice, offering a creative and progressive way to build strength and coordination.

In the second part of the workshop, I will share tips and insights into arm balancing postures. I’ll break down selected beginner, intermediate, and advanced arm balances, offering clear guidance, variations, and tools practitioners can take with them to continue developing confidence and a strong foundation in their practice.

Biography:

Chauncie Parchment is an 800-hour certified Hot and Vinyasa yoga teacher committed to integrative movement and personal growth. He has studied multiple yoga traditions—including Hatha, Vinyasa, Hot Yoga, Dharma, Kundalini, Kriya, and Calcutta Yoga—and has trained with teachers such as Jared McCann, Rose Erin Vaughan, and Yoshio Hama.

With a background as a certified nutritionist, personal trainer, and dancer, Chauncie offers a holistic approach to wellness that supports physical strength, emotional awareness, and mind-body connection. His dance training includes American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School, and he continues his movement practice through Capoeira Angola and Hybrid Movement, a contemporary circus company.

Chauncie integrates Subtle Body Methods and mindfulness practices to help students build deeper alignment, resilience, and self-mastery.

Free tickets

Join us for an intimate inside look at material explored during our ongoing Thursday audition workshops. This is not the presentation of a finished work, but a glimpse into research developed in two-hour weekly sessions with Artistic Assistant Anna McGary, returning dancer Heather Kroe, and three auditioning dancers: Mika Eppstein, Jalene Medina, and Madeline Moore.

The showing portion will last approximately 30 minutes and will include a few key exercises central to the MCGD alignment-based approach—where a subtle shift in organization can trigger a dynamic, synergistic response throughout the body. We will also share selected partnership explorations.

The showing concludes with a short excerpt of SENS, a multigenerational project long in development, presented as a structured, slow-motion ensemble piece set to Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki.

After the demonstration, we will enjoy each other’s company around wine and noshes in an informal and welcoming atmosphere.

Join us for a joyous celebration of dance and community featuring short works-in-progress by Anna McGary and Chauncie Parchment, choreographed by Marie-Christine Giordano, with wine and light bites afterward

RSVP your spot today!

Marie-Christine Giordano will be teaching a three-day intensive at École de danse Anouk Dénervaud in Switzerland from October 3–5, 2025.

This workshop will immerse participants in the principles that shape her choreography, blending fluidity, precision, and authentic expression. Dancers will explore movement vocabulary unique to Marie-Christine’s work and learn excerpts from her repertory.

Dates: October 3–5, 2025
Location: École de danse Anouk Denervaud, Fribourg, Switzerland
Level: Advanced/Pre-professional dancers

Join us at our home loft for a special gathering of members and friends of Marie-Christine Giordano Dance.

Enjoy fun, wine, and noshes along with a peek behind the scenes, and warm exchange.

Location: MCGD Home Loft, Sunset Park, Brooklyn

If you are interested in attending, please contact us to RSVP. Space is limited.

One-night-only performance on the summer solstice day at the Gothic Revival-style Historic Chapel in Green-Wood Cemetery, designed by the prestigious firm Warren & Wetmore and completed in 1913.

Through raw and exquisite movement, the dancers will embody the contrast between the permanence of the stone and the ephemeral fluidity of dance, set against the striking backdrop of the grey stones.

Purchase tickets: Here

You are invited to a behind the curtains' event with wine and laughs. This event is limited to 20 guests.

We will explore the dialogue between dancer Anna McGary and drum player Peter Leonardo It will be fun, informative and interactive.

When: October 27, 4PM

Where: at our live/work space in Brooklyn

RSVP by Thursday, October 24 @info@mcgdance.org. First come, first served up to 20 guests.

Biographies:

Anna McGary is a dancer, choreographer, and performer based in Brooklyn. She was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky where she studied dance and musical theater until moving to New York to attend Marymount Manhattan College. It is her third season with us.

Peter J. Leonardo is a versatile drummer, proficient in a wide range of styles. He has played with multiple bands across Long Island and beyond, making a name for himself through his adaptability and talent in diverse musical genres. It is his first time working with us.

MCGD will perform at P.S. 142, Lower East side, in Bed-Stuy for all students enrolled at the school.

In collaboration with Brooklyn and New York City public schools, MCGD brings lecture demonstrations of MCG Dance Technique and repertoire to students all across Brooklyn. The program was created by Marie-Christine Giordano and is implemented by Giordano and associate company dancers.

This program was developed and based on the fact that we strongly believe that dance is a much-needed expressive, transformative, healing, and unifying art form. We present thoughtful and moving pieces that explore core values of the dignity of all form of life. We use dance and movement forms to convey positive messages of hope, accomplishment, inclusiveness, and community that go well beyond language and cultural differences. We aim at educating young people about the role of dance as an art form as well as inspire them through a unique experience that they would otherwise not have access to.

Salon events are free and allow musicians, dancers, writers, and visual artists to share short works or works-in-process and dialogue in an inviting, friendly setting. Our guests can look forward to experiencing diversity and socializing with art makers and fellow art enthusiasts. These events take place in the loft space of Marie-Christine located in Brooklyn. It provides a warm environment for artists at different stages of their career to investigate together.

MCGD will perform at P.S. 25 The Eubie Blake School, in Bed-Stuy for all students enrolled at the school.

MCGD will perform at P.S. 153 for all students enrolled at the school.

Photo @manvirdavid

MCGD will perform at P.S. 64 for all students enrolled at the school.