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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 twelve years.
Our training programs embrace a holistic view of the body and engage the whole body/mind through cooperative learning and an interdisciplinary focus. The curriculum draws on dance, theater, voice, and a wide variety of somatic research to activate creativity and health in both the individual and the community.
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. We offer individual workshops, intensives, and a full Participatory Arts and Somatic Research Certification Program.
Soma: the body experienced from within
Somatic approaches support you to develop body connectivity, re-pattern habitual alignment and movement patterns, expand your dynamic range, increase kinesthetic awareness through embodied anatomy, and learn skills for deepened communication with self and others.
See below for our complete 2008-2009 Program Schedule for Moving on Center!
This intensive focuses on the interdisciplinary practices and research of improvisation, exploring the concerns of contemporary performance and culture. The program offers participants diverse improvisational skills, weaving principles of Body-Mind Centering®, Action Theatre, Contact Improvisation, Voice, and Performance into a training that invokes curiosity, resilience, and dynamic presence.
Workshops within this module, which can also be taken individually, include the following:
Ruth Zaporah (Action Theater, Improvisation, Performance)
Jess Curtis (Performance and Composition)
Cathie Caraker (BodyMind Centering® and Improvisation)
Carol Swann (Voice Thru the Body)
Brenton Cheng (Contact Improvisation)
Vitali Kononov (Contact Improvisation)
Susan Bauer (Authentic Movement)
2008 Summer Programs
Intensive Workshop
Embodiment in Education: Professional Development
for Dance /
Movement Educators: (1 week) June 16 - 20, 2008
Core Faculty: Susan Bauer
Module 1
Somatic Education and Massage Training: (5 weeks) July 6 - August 8, 2008
Somatic Education: (3 weeks) July 6 - 25, 2008
Massage Training: (2 weeks) July 28 - August 8, 2008
Core Faculty: Carol Swann, Peggy Hackney, Susan Bauer, Cathie Caraker and
the Alive & Well Massage faculty
Additional Workshop
Laban Movement Analysis (LMA)
With Peggy Hackney
Monday and Tuesday, August 11 & 12: 9:00am – 4:00pm
New August Workshop
Sponsored by Moving on Center and the SMTT Program
Somatics of Awakening: An Introduction to Somatic Approaches to Personal Growth
An evening with Andrei Salvat and Martha Eddy, Ed.D., MA, CMA, RSMT
Friday August 15th: 5:30 - 9:30pm
5862 Birch Court (Rear cottage) Rockridge, Oakland
Additional Workshop
Body–Mind Centering® (BMC)
With Martha Eddy, Ed.D., MA, CMA, RSMT
Saturday and Sunday, August 16 & 17, 2008: 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Wildcat Studio, 2525 8th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
Intensive Workshop
Somatics of Presence: (2 weeks) August 18 - 29, 2008
Core Faculty: Brenton Cheng, Vitali Kononov, Adam Kenyon Venker and Carol Swann
2008 Fall Programs
Module 2
The Socially Conscious Body: Process Arts and Professional
Facilitation Training: (4 weeks) September 7 - October 3, 2008
Level I: Process Arts: September 7 - September 19 (2 weeks)
(Note: Includes weekend workshop in Theater of the Oppressed (Sept. 13 & 14)
Level II: Facilitation Training: Professional Development: September 22 - October 3 (2 weeks)
Core Faculty: Lane Arye, Carol Swann, Bill McCully, Aryeh Shell, Isoke Femi and Paul Delapa
2009 Winter Programs
Module 3
Improvisational Mind and Performance: (4 weeks) January 4 - 30, 2009
Core Faculty: Jess Curtis, Cathie Caraker, Carol Swann, Brenton Cheng, Vitali Kononov, Ruth Zaporah and Susan Bauer
MOVING ON CENTER presents our
New 2008 Winter /Spring Weekend Workshop Series:
Download our 2008 Winter/Spring Weekend Workshop Schedule here. For a full list of our summer workshops please see our workshops page.
Sample Moving on Center’s experiential and embodied programs in our one-day weekend workshops! This series also introduces new, cutting-edge topics bridging somatics and the arts for social change.
Workshops are offered the 3rd weekend of every month from January to May.
A different topic is offered on each day―choose one day or take the full weekend. Special discounts apply for early registration or for taking any 5 workshops in the series! See below for details.
Special series kick-off workshop in BodyMind Centering® with BMC Founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen on Saturday, January 19th.
January
Saturday, January 19, 1-5pm
New!
BodyMind Centering® for Dance, Yoga, and
Other Movement Practices
with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Sunday, January 20, 12-6pm
New!
Bodies in Relationships: A Somatic Approach
with Rita Venturini and Denzil Meyers
February
Saturday, February 16, 12-6pm
New!
Freestyle Ritual, Where Urban Dance and
Somatics Intersect
with Rashad Pridgen
Sunday, February 17, 12-6pm
Voice Thru the Body
with Carol Swann
March
Saturday, March 15, 12-6pm
New!
Moving-from-Within®
with Susan Bauer
Sunday, March 16, 12-6pm
Alexander Technique
with Shelly Senter
April
Saturday, April 19, 12-6pm
Bartenieff Fundamentals®
with Peggy Hackney
Sunday, April 20, 12-6pm
Somatics of Presence: Performance
with Vitali Konanov, Brenton Cheng, and Adam Venkar
May
Saturday, May 17, 12-6pm
Experiential Anatomy
with Susan Bauer
Sunday, May 18, 12-6pm
Theater of the Oppressed
with Aryeh Shell
Location for all workshops (except BodyMind Centering® : Eighth Street Studio Complex, Berkeley, CA (Specific studios for each workshop listed with course descriptions).
Tuition:
Single one-day workshop: $125 ($110)*
Full Weekend (two one-day workshops): $250 ($220)*
*Register 2 weeks before your workshop, and receive the discounted price!
Plus:
Register and pay in full for any 5 workshops and receive a discounted fee of $500!!!
Registration and payment must be received 2 weeks before the first workshop begins.
Call now to register; some workshops may fill up early!
East Coast Programs
Somatic Movement Therapy Training (SMTT) - Offered in Summer 2010
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. In an effort to make this unique form of study more accessible, we have recently restructured our Core Program. The new format is designed to meet the range of interests and needs of our diverse student body.
Your support helps us continue to offer these programs and classes; to make a tax-deductible donation via paypal simply click, then enter the amount you wish to donate. You don't have to have a paypal account to use this - just a credit card. Thank you for your support of programs that bridge somatics and the arts for social change!
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