Proto-technique class These are process-oriented dance classes focused on how we experience ourselves moving. The aim is to develop self-awareness as a tool for creating and refining our own dance practices: widening the range of movement vocabulary and qualities; improving ease, efficiency and flow in movement; recovering from and avoiding injury. The...
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Contact Improvisation as a Solo Practice “We’re all alone in this together”Steve Paxton from a class in 1995 We always move in relation to the earth (ground) from which we get support and to the air (space) which invites us to move through it. When we dance, we support mostly...
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Moving from the fish body In the 3.5 billion year tale of human evolution, it is from our fish ancestors that we and our entire extended vertebrate family inherit our spinally organised head-tail structure. Legs arrived much later, and in some sense their function is simply to get the earth...
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This workshop will focus mainly on the Feldenkrais method as have the previous two Vienna BodySchool workshops more to follow soon … email me if…
BodySchool : Caring For Our Backs – 21/22 October 2017 In many ways we forget that as a species we are still evolving. One could…
Dance Research Open Morning Classes “What if it’s not the mind that lives in the body but the body that lives in the mind?” Confronted by the failure of neuroscientific research to solve the “hard problem” of consciousness, there has been a shift towards hypotheses that propose consciousness as a...
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BodySchool : Making friends with scoliosis Scoliosis is most commonly thought of as a lateral asymmetry of the spine that shows up as a sideways curve. But considered three-dimensionally, it's more like a twisting or coiling of the spine that produces the characteristic two-dimensional curve. Since nobody has a perfectly straight spine, and...
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I'll be guest teaching on the Language module from 7-12 February on the Institut For Holistic Dance And Movement Pedagogy's Advanced Teachers Training. The course itself starts at the end of August 2016. The institute also offers a basic teacher training that I guest teach on too – the next teachers training course begins in January 2017. I...
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BodySchool : Caring for our necks The inspiration for this workshop is to share some of the insights I gained from suffering and subsequently healing from a serious neck injury: a herniated disk for which an operation was eventually recommended. I chose the self-healing path instead and now I’m well....
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More information to follow later in the Spring. Meanwhile, follow the link to the festival web site.