• Sunday, March 8th

• 1-3PM

• Mechanic’s Hall

Moving Target Portland is an all-levels adult contemporary dance class led by different guest choreographers.

$12-20 sliding scale (no one turned away)

SHAINA CANTINO is a dance artist, improviser, movement educator and Licensed Massage Therapist/Craniosacral Therapist based in western Massachusetts and Bath, Maine. She holds an MFA in dance from Smith College and is a graduate of the National Theatre Institute and Kenyon College (BA, Distinction in Dance). Cantino is a recent recipient of a New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund grant for the development of a duet piece, in collaboration with performer Leah Fournier and Oregon-based theater artist Rose Proctor, premiered at the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, MA. Cantino’s choreography and performance have been presented at performance venues and universities across the country. Her performance is noted for its understated humor and off-balance physicality. Shaina has taught semester courses in contemporary technique (levels I-V), composition and Contact Improvisation (CI) at Bowdoin College, Colby College, Wesleyan University and Keene State, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, as well as intensive international CI workshops and weekly adult classes at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (SCDT). Cantino has had the pleasure of collaborating with Aretha Aoki, Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Paul Matteson, Nancy Stark Smith, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Michael Figueroa, Joy Davis, Leah Fournier, and Sara Coffin. She has intensively trained with Kirstie Simpson (2018), Sara Shelton Mann and Abby Crain (2018, 2016), Susan Rethorst (2016), Bebe Miller Company (2015), St. Petersburg State Theater Academy (2009), Kathleen Hermesdorf/Sara Shelton Mann/Keith Hennessy (2009), American Conservatory Theater (2008), and Bates Dance Festival (2007).