the training ground sf

the training ground sf Directed by Karah Abiog, ttgsf offers an intensive, full-time program for pre-professional dancers as well as open community workshops.

Based at City Dance Studios in San Francisco.

09/01/2026

🥚🌱 THE HATCHERY, well, hatched!!

A big thank-you to all of the artists who led Incubation workshops this summer: Nat Wilson, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Babatunji, Maurya Kerr, Christian Burns, Ja’Moon Jones, Laja Field, and Jessie Lee Thorne. Shout-out to City Dance for providing a beautiful home, and of course to the 104 dancers who turned out to participate. What an incredible summer full of curiosity and experimentation!

Keep an eye out for information about upcoming ttgsf classes and workshops, including a winter intensive in December. Details coming soon 👀

08/12/2026

Laja and Jessie are here! There's still time to join us this week at C I T Y D A N C E L I V E for our final HATCHERY incubation workshop of the summer:

☀️Morning class drop-ins: 9:30-11:30am, through Friday. No need to register in advance - just show up!

🌱Full day workshop drop-ins: 9am-3pm, through Friday. Please register on our website (link in bio).

Questions? Send us a DM 💌

08/07/2026

Laja and Jessie start their incubation next week. Come dance!

Our final HATCHERY workshop of the summer offers the opportunity to:
💥 Build foundations from visceral, momentum-driven floorwork.
🌀 Develop agility, confidence, and try on new movement imprints.
🗣️ Broaden the body’s expressive tools: explore monologue, dialogue, and animated physicality.
🌱 Practice layering complexity inside a structured improv.
✨ Go beyond “steps” to unleash spirit, instinct, and the limitless possibilities of intent-driven performance.

August 10-14 at C I T Y D A N C E L I V E. Drop-in options available ALL WEEK for full days and morning classes. Visit our website (link in bio) to register now!

Video: Laja working with Training Ground students back in March.

07/30/2026

Two days only! “Embodied Storytelling” with Ja’Moon starts next week ✨

Update: this HATCHERY incubation has been condensed to Monday-Tuesday, August 3-4, 9am-3pm at City Dance Studios. Open to movers and movement enthusiasts alike, Ja’Moon’s workshop invites you to explore the power of physical storytelling.

Options to:
🥚 take the entire workshop
🌱 drop in for a full day
☀️ come through for a morning class (9:30-11am)

Visit our website for more details and register now!

07/29/2026

Register by THIS FRIDAY, July 31!

We’re thrilled to welcome Laja back to City Dance for a HATCHERY workshop alongside Jessie Lee Thorne. You’re invited to enter a physically charged, performance-driven laboratory with these two beloved dance-theater creators. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore momentum-based floorwork, voice, character, and structured improvisation.

Options to participate in the entire workshop, drop in for a day, or take a morning class. Visit our website (link in bio) for details and registration.

Video: Laja working with Training Ground students back in March ❤️‍🔥

“Live Landscapes” with Laja Field and Jessie Lee Thorne: REGISTER NOW!Step into a full-body immersion where floorwork, d...
07/22/2026

“Live Landscapes” with Laja Field and Jessie Lee Thorne: REGISTER NOW!

Step into a full-body immersion where floorwork, dance-theater, and spontaneous composition collide. Led by powerhouses Laja Field and Jessie Lee Thorne, this incubation builds from visceral, momentum-driven floorwork into explorations of character, voice, and theatricality.

💡 “Live Landscapes: Floorwork, Voicework, and Improvisational Play”
📅 August 10-14, 9am-3pm*
📍 City Dance Studios, San Francisco
🔗 Link in bio for details and registration
*options for the complete workshop, full-day drop-in, or morning class only

‼️ Please register by JULY 31. If we don’t get a few more sign-ups to reach our minimum enrollment, we’ll unfortunately have to cancel.

Close out the summer strong with our final HATCHERY Incubation workshop!

“Embodied Storytelling Within Immersive Environments” with Ja’Moon Jones: REGISTER ASAP!Unlock the power of physical sto...
07/20/2026

“Embodied Storytelling Within Immersive Environments” with Ja’Moon Jones: REGISTER ASAP!

Unlock the power of physical storytelling in this dynamic workshop for movers and movement enthusiasts alike. Blending performance techniques, acting, and composition, the workshop supports participants in channeling their stories through sensation-based and narrative-led movement approaches.

This workshop will serve as an incubation process for “Sweat!,” an immersive new dance work by Ja’Moon Jones, a company dancer with ODC. Reimagining club culture as sacred spaces for transformation, resistance, and survival, Sweat! is rooted in the ecstatic and communal energy of the dance floor—spaces where marginalized people have long gathered to grieve, celebrate, and transcend. This piece will explore sweating together as both physical exertion and a powerful act of collective endurance.

💡 “Embodied Storytelling Within Immersive Environments”
📅 August 3-7, 9am-3pm*
📍 City Dance Studios, San Francisco
🔗 Link in bio for details and registration
*options for the complete workshop, full-day drop-in, or morning class only

‼️ Please register by this Wednesday, July 22. If we don’t get a few more sign-ups to reach our minimum enrollment, we’ll unfortunately have to cancel.

“The Word in Motion” with Maurya Kerr and Christian Burns: PLEASE REGISTER ASAP, LIKE YESTERDAY!Examine the relationship...
07/20/2026

“The Word in Motion” with Maurya Kerr and Christian Burns: PLEASE REGISTER ASAP, LIKE YESTERDAY!

Examine the relationship between movement, text, and meaning with seasoned Bay Area artists maurya kerr (she/her/hers) and Christian Burns. Christian and Maurya are interested in investigating a grammar of both embodied and lingual language in an effort to help workshop participants gain clearer and more objective improvisatory and creation tools. Each day will consist of a ballet-based warm-up + physical practice; skill + technique building; and assimilation, making + sharing.

💡 “The Word in Motion”
📅 July 17-31, 9am-3pm*
📍 City Dance Studios, San Francisco
🔗 Link in bio for details and registration
*options for the complete workshop, full-day drop-in, or morning class only

‼️ We know you can’t wait to work with these incredible artists, but if we don’t get a few more sign-ups to reach our minimum enrollment, we’ll unfortunately have to cancel. If you’re interested in attending, please register by this Wednesday, July 22.

Photos by Keith Wang and alan kimara dixon.

📣 UPCOMING WEEKDAY MORNING CLASSESDrop in for morning classes during our remaining four HATCHERY workshops! Classes run ...
07/15/2026

📣 UPCOMING WEEKDAY MORNING CLASSES

Drop in for morning classes during our remaining four HATCHERY workshops! Classes run 9:30-11am at City Dance Studio. No pre-registration, simply show up. Payments will be accepted onsite via Venmo and cash ($30/class).

🌀 Babatunji: July 20-23
Contemporary/FloorWork using contemporary methods that orbit breaking-based floorwork, making movements accessible for dancers of all styles, body types, and levels of experience. (Note: NO morning class drop in on Sunday, July 19)

🩰 Christian Burns & Maurya Kerr: July 27-31
Ballet class cultivates, invites, and demands abandon, care, creativity, commitment, curiosity, expansiveness, failure, fluidity, generosity, investigation, love, mastery, musicality, personal investment and responsibility, rigor, risk, and sweaty joy. All levels welcome!

✨ Ja’Moon Jones: August 3-7
Contemporary for movers and movement enthusiasts alike, using sensation-based and narrative-led movement approaches.

🌩️ Laja Field & Jessie Lee Thorne: August 10-14
Building foundations from visceral, momentum-driven floorwork; awaken joint mobility, gain strength and efficiency in motion while harnessing explosive power with cloud-like landings.

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