Adult Stretch and Move Class
with Holly Waxman
Monday, November 16th, 2026 | 1PM - 2:15PM
204 S Austin Street, Rockport, TX
FREE - But MUST Register
All Abilities Welcome
Ages 18+
Class Description:
Looking for a movement class that’s accessible, fun, and does not feel like you are “exercising”? Dance is one of the best activities you can do for your brain and body! Come try Stretch and Move with Holly Waxman, MFA and current Stanley J. Wertheimer Fellow in Dance for PD® - Parkinson’s Disease, a program of the Mark Morris Dance Group of New York.
If you are a person living with Parkinson’s Disease, we especially welcome you to these classes, as they have been designed for you through the Dance for PD program, and we also welcome participants 18 and up who want to move. Dance is a wonderful art form to improve your balance and coordination, challenge your brain, and to feel connection with your community. Dance is for everybody!
The class will start seated in a chair, with the option to move into standing, should that feel appropriate to you. The option to stay seated is always yours. If you choose to stand, there are options to hold onto a ballet barre or your chair. You may choose to stand and move without the chair. We encourage everyone to choose what feels best for them to get the most out of the class.
Please wear clothing you feel comfortable moving in, and workout shoes or sneakers that do not slide off.
We look forward to moving with you, and please bring a friend!
About the Instructor:
Holly Waxman danced professionally with Ballet West, Oklahoma Festival Ballet, Utah Ballet, Western Arkansas Ballet, Antelope Valley Ballet, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Corpus Christi Ballet, and as a guest artist across the United States. She has danced as The Firebird in George Skibine’s Firebird, Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Liberty Bell in Balanchine’s© Stars and Stripes Pas de Deux, Second Violin in George Balanchine’s© Concerto Barocco, and “The Osage Variation” from The Four Moons by Miguel Terehkov. Ms. Waxman performed in Jonas Kåge’s Swan Lake, Willam Christensen's Coppèlia, George Balanchine's© Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, and Airs, by Paul Taylor to name a few. Mrs. Waxman toured internationally with Oklahoma Festival Ballet in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Avignon, France, and Eisenstadt, Austria. From 2006-2013 Ms. Waxman was a full-time Professor in Ballet at the University of Oklahoma where she taught classes in ballet, pointe, dance history, and coordinated the Saturday Youth Class and SummerWind Ballet Camp. She has taught dance for ZACH Theatre Performing Arts School, Any Given Child program (Kennedy Center for the Arts), American College Dance Festival, Texas State University, and Texas A&M College Station where she was an Artist-in-Residence in 2011. She has taught dance for the Any Given Child program (Kennedy Center for the Arts), the American College Dance Festival, and Texas A&M College Station where she was an Artist-in-Residence in 2011. Her choreography has been presented at the Sooner Theatre, the University of Oklahoma, and Michigan State University. She has coached dancers in Fandango by Antony Tudor, Reflections by Gerald Arpino, Les Biches by Bronislava Nijinksa, The Nutcracker by Mary Margaret Holt, Camouflage by Ben Stevenson, The Firebird by Miguel Terekhov, and Who Cares? by George Balanchine©. Ms. Waxman began taking ballet classes at the age of 4 with Roquemore Ballet Arts and continued with Munro Ballet Studios and the Corpus Christi Ballet. She studied with the Boston Ballet School, as a full scholarship student with the Houston Ballet Academy and the Paul Taylor Dance School in New York, STEPS on Broadway, and Ballet West Conservatory. Ms. Waxman holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Oklahoma where she was a Foundation Fellow and BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah. Mrs. Waxman is thrilled to be partnering with the Rockport Center for the Arts to bring classical ballet to the beautiful Rockport, Texas community.
Monday, November 16th | 1-2:15PM
FREE - But MUST Register
All Abilities Welcome
Ages 18+