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Welcome to Moving on Center!
Moving on Center School for Participatory Arts and Somatic Research has offered programs bridging somatics and the performing arts for social change for the past sixteen years.
Our faculty has included many of the finest educators in the San Francisco Bay area, as well as master teachers and visiting artists from around the world. Over these years, we have offered individual workshops, intensives, and a full Participatory Arts and Somatic Research Certification Program.
Our studies in Participatory Arts and Somatic Research have had a transformative and leadership building impact on each of the students who has passed through our doors. Our graduates are the seed planters for cutting-edge work in somatics, social activism, experiential education, and art-making throughout the world. They are providing an essential perspective in this age of technology and consumerism that leads to a more embodied, just and sustainable world.
MOVING ON CENTER'S 2009 - 2010 UPDATE
including 2009 - 2010 programs in SMTT and Embodiment in Education
In March 2009, MOC is responding to the unstable and challenging economy by choosing to close our West Coast office and on-site West Coast programs and to become more mobile. Therefore, we are no longer offering any programming at our site at the Malonga Center in Oakland, California. We are, however, embracing change and making our programs accessible in more flexible formats than ever.
Our somatic leadership training can be extremely useful for negotiating change. Our programs are alive and vibrant in the following ways:
- East Coast Office:
Our East Coast office, directed by Co-Founder, Martha Eddy, is still open in New York City. The office is housed with the Center for Kinesthetic Education (CKE), a unique resource for our community outreach mission. For more information about certification in Dynamic Embodiment - Somatic Movement Therapy (DE-SMTT) and its new Masters degree partnership with the State University of NY - Empire State College, consulting in schools and hospitals, and our classes for children and adults dealing with coordination challenges and various illnesses please visit CKE's website.
- "Somatics for Hire"
Our listed curriculum, workshops and intensives (including teachers) are available to be produced or sponsored at regional, national and international locations with many of our fantastic faculty.
As you will see on this website, our programs include day-long and weekend workshops, intensives, and month-long modules. Although these have previously been offered within our Certification Programs, they can now be sponsored as individual programs as well.
- Educational Partnerships:
We are open to the possibility of partnering with educational institutes and organizations for short and long-term programming. We will continue our current academic relationships, such as with University of California-East Bay, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (SBGI), and SUNY-ESC as we build more.
- Professional Services:
All of Moving On Center's Directors offer consulting and private sessions based on their individual areas of expertise. Please contact them or for more information, or look at our Professional Services page!
With our comprehensive curriculum of intensives and workshops that weave together for embodied knowledge in health, education and the arts, we are now a "moving body of work." We look forward to sharing this with you and to experiencing your curiosity and involvement! Co-Founders, Carol Swann and Martha Eddy
See below for Programs Offered by Moving on Center!
(For full description of each go to Certification Programs and Workshops)
UPCOMING PROGRAMS 2009 - 2010:
DE-SMTT
(Dynamic Embodiment - Somatic Movement Therapy Training)
with Dr. Martha Eddy
Somatic Intensive at CKE with Martha Eddy: Dynamic Embodiment – Somatic Movement Therapy Training
July 18 – 28th 2009 in New York City
Download the SMTT brochure, flyer, application and information pages for more details about the 2009 Somatic Intensive in New York!
Creative Arts & Movement Summer Camp for Children with Special Needs For more information, click here for a brochure, and here for the registration form.
More DE-SMTT programs upcoming in 2010!
Embodiment in Education: Professional Development for Dance / Movement Educators
with Susan Bauer and Guest Faculty Deane Juhan
June 15 - 19, 2009
Berkeley, California
MOC Programs -
Available to be Contracted / Produced
MODULES (3-4 weeks)
Somatic Education: (3 weeks)
Experiential Anatomy and Kinesiology (Susan Bauer)
Learning to Move: Principles of Developmental Movement (Martha Eddy)
Alexander Technique (Carol Swann)
Somatic Therapy (based on the Hakomi Method) (Carol Swann)
Laban / Bartenieff FundamentalsTM (Peggy Hackney)
Authentic Movement (Susan Bauer)
Integration and Homework (Core faculty)
Socially Conscious Body: Process Arts and Professional Facilitation Training (4 weeks)
Process Arts (first two weeks)
Liberation Singing, Community Project (Carol Swann)
The Elder, the Artist, and the Social Activist: Worldwork and Process Work: (Lane Arye)
Authentic Movement (Bill McCully)
Theatre of the Oppressed (Aryeh Shell)
Professional Facilitation Training (last two weeks)
The Basics of Group Facilitation (Paul Delapa)
Tracking the Unconscious Facilitator (Bill McCully)
Songs and Games for Building Community (Carol Swann)
Going Deeper: Advanced Facilitation Training (Isoke Femi)
Improvisational Mind and Performance (4 weeks)
Action Theater, Improvisation, Performance (Ruth Zaporah)
Performance and Composition (Keith Hennessy / Jess Curtis)
Body-Mind Centering® and Improvisation (Cathie Caraker)
Voice Thru the Body (Carol Swann)
Contact Improvisation (Brenton Cheng / Vitali Kononov)
Authentic Movement (Susan Bauer)
INTENSIVES Somatics in Education: Professional Development for Dance / Movement Educators (one week)
With Susan Bauer
Somatics of Presence: Performance Intensive (two weeks)
With Brenton Cheng, Vitali Kononov, Adam Kenyon Venker, and Carol Swann
INDIVIDUAL WORSHOPS (one or two day formats available)
Experiential Anatomy and Kinesiology (Susan Bauer)
Developmental Movement (Martha Eddy)
Alexander Technique (Carol Swann)
Somatic Therapy (based on the Hakomi Method) (Carol Swann)
Laban / Bartenieff FundamentalsTM (Peggy Hackney)
Embodiment in Education (Susan Bauer)
Authentic Movement (Susan Bauer / Bill McCully)
Liberation Singing (Carol Swann)
The Elder, the Artist, and the Social Activist: Worldwork and Process Work (Lane Arye)
Theatre of the Oppressed (Aryeh Shell)
Tracking the Unconscious Facilitator (Bill McCully)
Songs and Games for Building Community (Carol Swann)
Action Theater, Improvisation, Performance (Ruth Zaporah / Sten Rudstrom)
Performance and Composition (Keith Hennessy / Jess Curtis)
Body-Mind Centering® and Improvisation (Cathie Caraker)
Voice Thru the Body (Carol Swann)
Contact Improvisation (Brenton Cheng / Vitali Kononov)
Somatic Movement Therapy Training (SMTT) - Offered in Summer 2010
Somatic Movement Therapy Training (SMTT) was founded by Martha Eddy in 1991, in Western Massachusetts. Martha Eddy brings a deep understanding of somatic education, movement science and human communication to highly regarded professional program. The SMTT approach was developed through her teaching, practice, and cross-pollination of Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Body-Mind Centering® over a twenty year span. Eddy is the only person in the world who has served on the certification program faculty of both of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and the School for Body-Mind Centering®. In 1995 the SMTT moved to being housed Moving On Center in California, and then became a bicoastal program in 1998.
Moving on Center's Vision
Connecting Somatics, Performance and Social Change
Here at home in the US, and around the globe, there is a common acknowledgement that we live in a complex and critical era. As a species, humankind finds itself in a web of global interdependence and competing interests. In the face of corporate globalization, institutionalized racism, and our physical isolation in this era of technology, it is possible to feel frozen and hopeless. How will we meet the demands and prospects of the 21st century? What skills and perspectives will support our navigation of these turbulent straits?
Now more than ever, Moving On Center feels an immense need to provide tools for individuals, groups, and entire communities to assess our own habits and patterns, to find connections across these divides, and to allow for REAL change to occur from the inside out. Through bridging the healing and performing arts for social change, we strive to offer a pathway to LIVING the world we desire. Remembering the words of Emma Goldman: "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." We offer this curriculum as a doorway to a sense of inner balance, deepened communication, understanding, and an integration of our reflective and expressive selves.
Moving On Center has been a pioneer of holistic and interdisciplinary education for over a decade. We look forward to sharing this with you.
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