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Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement Sessions

Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement Sessions

GIVE YOURSELF THE SPACE TO DANCE. This is an improvisational movement form also known as Contemplative Dance, Tao of the Body and Essential Movement, pioneered by Mary Whitehouse in the 1970s.  It requires no prior dance training, but rather a desire and willingness to explore the body’s natural impulse to move and to allow itself to be moved by the spirit.   Through paying attention without judgment to what is present in our movement and the sounds, images, ideas and memories that accompany it, we call forth what is most essential. Each session will begin with a warm-up period to release tensions and enliven consciousness in the physical body using improvisational dance. The opportunity for artistic expression through visual or written media follows the movement period. Reflection on one’s experience afterward serves to ground and amplify the discoveries made.

Our dates for the series will be:

Feb 4 & 18
March 4 & 18
April 1 & 15
May 6 & 20

Bath Dance Works
$20-30
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM, every month on Saturday through May 20, 2023.

Artist Group Info

Kay Mann
dancingfewl@pobox.com
Bath Dance Works
72 Front St. third floor
Bath, Maine 04380
207-504-1929
dancingfewl@pobox.com