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Vivake Khamsingsavath (Vive) is a Laotian American dancer, teacher and choreographer from Brooklyn, New York. He studied dance at Binghamton University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Vive has toured across the globe teaching and performing. In New York City, he has performed at notable venues including The Shed, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Broadway at Bryant Park and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week....Read more
Vivake Khamsingsavath (Vive) is a Laotian American dancer, teacher and choreographer from Brooklyn, New York. He studied dance at Binghamton University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Vive has toured across the globe teaching and performing. In New York City, he has performed at notable venues including The Shed, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Broadway at Bryant Park and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Vive has appeared on The Today Show, The View and Good Morning America. He was listed as one of the “Hottest Men in Dance” by The Huffington Post, featured in campaigns for The W Hotels, VISA, Nintendo and Sears. Vive served as choreographer for The US Open, Bravo TV, Bloomingdales, PUMAxMaybelline, NARS Cosmetics, Lululemon, and TNT’s I Am The Night.
Vive currently dances for Battery Dance Company, whose mission is to make dance accessible to people of all backgrounds, socioeconomic, race, age, ability. He has had the privilege of traveling to Nigeria, Indonesia, Vietnam, Germany, empowering communities through arts.
Vive is the resident choreographer at Astarte Creative, creating immersive shows and movement direction for events and brands.
Vive cultivated Contemporary Flow in NYC, with the mission of cultivating encouraging spaces for artists to develop their artistry. He has been able to share his methodology in London, Paris, Vienna, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil.
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Vive aspires to cultivate a space for artists to tune in with how they feel and connect it to their movement. The warm up is a culmination of meditative exercises, a choreographed flow of movement inspired by Qi-Gong, while implementing elements of deconstructed ballet and jazz vocabulary. Vive emphasis improvisation, introducing various tasks for the dancer to research for themselves. There are elements of floorwork worked into the warm up and across the floor. The phrase work is an exploration of contemporary movement, which can be described as Flow and Floor. Each part of class lends itself to the next, so there is continuous movement, learning and growth.