09/19/2012
DanceSomatics, Body-Mind Centering® and Dance
Applying Embryology to the dance
with Saliq Savage
Mondays 6:30-8:30, Sept 24-Dec 10, 12 weeks $180, drop in $20
Dynamite Records, basement of Thornes
This class offers meaningful and concise movement and hands-on explorations that contextualize our anatomical, physiological and embryological development and make it real. Discover new connections based on the unfolding of your particular embryonic self and how those patterns continue to be available for transformation and remembering. Although you are all perfect just as you are, wouldn't it be nice to be more at ease in your body?
Utilizing self-exploration, contact improvisation, and free movement, we will realize pathways of support and connection within our bodies and between one another. Through improvisation and movement, when responding and allowing the dance to move us, we can experience genuine satisfaction.
My goal is to create an environment where participants are free to inhabit their habitual and non-habitual patterns, notice, and emerge with less rigidity, more authenticity and ease. Easy eyes, relaxed breath, really playful and often fun. Come drop in any time. And feel free to bring a friend!
We will work with structures such as: embryonic breathing; the perineal body, locating, identifying, and uncovering its significance for movement; the floating spine – how the spine is not the center, but rather floats above or behind the core and how it relates to the ectoderm and emerging skeleton.
I hope to spend some time dancing with you in this playful and deepening environment.
Saliq
413-330-1172
Saliq is on the faculty of the Body-Mind Centering(tm) certification train program at Duke University. He is a performing artist and is the director of Wire Monkey Dance Company. He is an infant development specialist as well as a body worker and teaches DanceSomatics in Western Mass and in Stolzenhagen Germany at the Ponderosa TanzLand Festival.
