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Hi! I’m Malcolm Manning. Thanks for visiting.

I think of myself as a somatic movement researcher, educator, mentor and artist. Sometime during the many years I have spent learning to move, I realised that I was actually moving to learn, hence the name of this web site.

What do I do?

Whether I’m working with professional dancers or people who simply want to be more comfortable as they sit and work on their computers, I create classes in which I invite others to share in my ongoing inquiry of what it is to be a thinking, feeling, moving subject in this world.

My aim in teaching is always to create the conditions to meet ourselves with a childlike sense of wonder; to engage playfully with our innate curiosity unhindered by expectation; and to develop a dialogue with ourselves and our environment in which we are empowered to be our own experts.

Who do I work with?

I started by offering my work mainly as a resource for dance professionals in dance centres, at festivals, for dance companies and on higher education programmes. More broadly in the the performing arts, I have also worked with actors, musicians, singers. These days I teach regular classes at Tanzquartier Wien and offer workshops at ImpulsTanz.

I have taught regularly on a freelance basis in the dance departments of the Danish National School of Performing Arts (scenekunstskolen.dk) and at the Theatre Academy Of Finland (www.uniarts.fi) where I was a senior lecturer in the dance department from 2008-12. I helped to create and develop the Dance And Somatics one-year education at ISLO in north eastern Finland.

For every body, I teach a workshop series called BodySchool, in which I seek to apply my synthesis of somatic and postmodern dance practices to everyday life situations, and I also offer Feldenkrais individual sessions for children with special needs

How did I learn all this?

I have studied a range of somatic practices and contemporary dance practices. I am certified as a practitioner of both the Feldenkrais Method® and the Body And Earth work developed by Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. I studied for two years at SNDO Amsterdam and have an MA in Dance Pedagogy from the Theatre Academy Of Finland in Helsinki. I have made extensive studies of Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Movement Shiatsu, Body Mind Centering and experiential anatomy.

My dedicated Feldenkrais web site : More Than Movement

Coronavirus finally forced me to come out as a Feldenkrais practitioner offering standalone Feldenkrais classes. The method has always been fundamental to how I teach, but my teaching of Feldenkrais classes has most often been offered in wider contexts.

Visit my new site for information about classes and individual sessions, and explore my blog with short articles on different aspects of working with the method.

www.MoreThanMovement.at

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