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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Open public workshops
Below you’ll find a complete list of workshops with Malcolm Manning. This includes those that I will be teaching or have taught in the last few years. The list of past workshops could be useful if you are thinking of asking me to come and teach. You can see how I combine all the various forms and practices into workshops that I teach in the light of my background, interests and approach to teaching.
Extended Mind Practices – Towards Radical Calmness What if we’ve got that mind-body relationship thing the wrong way around? What if it’s not the mind that lives in the body but the body that lives in the mind? In this workshop, Malcolm Manning presents dance and movement practices that he...
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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 Open-level dance and movement training In the 3.5 billion year tale of human evolution, it is from our fish ancestors that we inherit our spinally organised head-tail structure. In this process-oriented dance and movement workshop we’ll experience how to articulate from the “fish body” –...
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Presented by Improspekcije Extended Mind Practices – Towards Radical Calmness “What if it’s not the mind that lives in the body but the body that lives in the mind?” In the discourse of philosophy of mind there is renewed interest in hypotheses that consider consciousness as a fundamental property of...
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UnderScore MeetingPortugal 17-22 September 2019 with Christine Mauch and Malcolm Manning A six-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 anyone already familiar...
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I'll be teaching two workshops again this year at Tanz Bozen - Bolzano Danza festival in the Südtirol region of Northern Italy. You'll find the info you need about signing up and how to get there on the festival web site at www.tanzbozen.it. You can also find a link there...
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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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Juxtaposition : Feldenkrais Method and Authentic Movement The Feldenkrais Method and Authentic Movement both enhance our presence in the world. They do that through attending…
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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