Mychal A. Bryan is a Bahamian-Jamaican Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), movement therapist, and Cuban modern dance teacher. He began his Cuban modern training in Santiago de Cuba with Teatro de la Danza del Caribe, and was an apprentice to the company’s artistic director Barbara Ramos Caballero. He later moved to Havana, Cuba to deepen his study and research of the Cuban modern dance technique at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA). He continues to work with masters of the Cuban modern dance technique, including Lourdes Ulacia, Idania Wambrug, and Odalys Segura, to revise the curriculum of teaching that is used in both the nation’s leading school and university of dance. He merges his understanding of anatomy, physiology, Iyengar Yoga, and dance, ensuring that each class is a dynamic exploration of the movement potential of the body.
Graham Technique (Floorwork)
A floor-based training practice for strength, coordination, and technical clarity
This class offers a structured floorwork training rooted in the Cuban approach to teaching the Graham technique. Working primarily on the floor, dancers develop strength, mobility, coordination, and deep core support through focused technical work centered on the spine, pelvis, breath, and directional movement.
The practice emphasizes contraction and release, dynamic opposition, control, rhythm, and musicality while building the physical intelligence necessary for modern and contemporary dance work. Through progressive floor sequences, conditioning exercises, and technical drills, dancers cultivate greater articulation, responsiveness, stamina, and expressive power within the body.
Open to dancers of varying backgrounds who want to deepen their technical foundation, strengthen their floorwork, and develop a more connected, powerful instrument for movement.