UnderScore MeetingVienna 29th June to 3rd July 2020 with Christine Mauch and Malcolm Manning A five-day immersion in the world of the UnderscoreThis is an opportunity to dance contact improvisation and practice, study and develop how we play together in the container offered by Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore. We welcome...
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In this workshop, we’ll work with identifying and moving from our belly centres – the hara or dantian in the martial arts. When we organise our movement from this place it becomes powerful and potent – we know where we are. And connecting from here into the world brings a...
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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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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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