CLASS

Eclipse Mill, North Adams, MA

July 15-20, 2024

$650.

Mornings 10:00 –1:00 Developmental Technique(TM)

Identifying the developmental actions of yield, push, reach, grasp and pull as the underlying fundamentals of developmental movement, we will explore the basic patterns of locomotion, from pre-spinal, navel radiated states through crawling to vertical, embodied expressions in space. We will improvise with these materials, individually and in small groups and investigate setting material from these somatic sources. 

Afternoons 2:00-5:00—Experiential Anatomy; 

Differentiating the systems, researching full spectrum expression from pure movement to arousing and channeling psychophysical imagery into movement, sound, story and image.

Erika Berland is a dancer, performer, Certified Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering^®, Registered Movement Therapist and Licensed Massage Therapist. She was a founding faculty member of the MFA: Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University (2004-2020) where she developed and taught a two-year curriculum integrating movement, somatics and meditation. She has presented her workshop, “The Physical Art of Sitting”, based on her book of the same title published in 2017, throughout the US along with workshops internationally in movement and Body-Mind Centering^®. She has chapters in "Physical Dramaturgy" (Routledge) and "Movement for Actors" (Simon & Schuster) She has been a member of the Naropa University teaching team for the Mindfulness Compassion Initiative since the program’s launch in 2017.

Wendell Beavers, is a founder and Director of New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing, Naropa University’s MFA in Contemporary Performance and Movement Research (NYC). As a movement artist, he has been profoundly influenced by BMC^® and the Viewpoints, an improvisational theater/movement based practice. 

For registration information contact: somaticperformer@gmail.com