2012 WORKSHOPS
Melbourne * Perth * Sydney * Tawonga
* Riddells Creek
MARCH
this fluid body
Perth
Our predominantly fluid body provides for an inquiry that is boundless and circuitous. Beginning with the fullness of breath and its inherent fluid potential we will follow the transformational qualities that the experiential embodiment of our fluids offer.
Initiating and expressing movement through the fluid system relates to the dynamic of flow and the interplay between stillness and action. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, 1993.
Dates: 3, 4 & 5 March read more...
Somatic Wisdom
Riddells Creek
Professional Development Program for those who want to deepen their understanding of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) and its application in their professional and personal lives.
Dates: March 12 - 16 2012:
Developmental Movement Patterns - Pre-vertebral read more...
JANUARY
Somatic Wisdom
Riddells Creek
Professional Development Program for those who want to deepen their understanding of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) and its application in their professional and personal lives.
Dates: January 16 - 20 2012: Skeletal System
January 23 - 27 2012: Organ System read more...
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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS 2012
Melbourne
Body-Mind Centering® and Improvisation & Performance workshops commencing in April and running throughout the year.
Sydney
Bones and our skeletal framework - BMC workshop on the skeletal system of the body. Dates: 9, 10 & 11 June 2012
2011 WORKSHOPS
Melbourne * Perth * Sydney * Tawonga * Denmark
* Riddells Creek
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
Improvisation & Performance
Melbourne
These workshops will generate embodied performance making that is strongly based in an articulate body. Beginning with a somatic warm-up we will extend our movement and compositional vocabulary to create performances that are intelligent, spacious, tender and alive. We will practice solos, duets, trios and group improvisations, accumulating skills that inform the moment-by-moment composing that is improvisation. Improvisation is the embodiment of the moment steeped in memory, narrative and meaning ...
Dates: 9 November - 14 December read more...
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
Body-Mind Centering® is a practice of mindfulness that offers a unique and valuable process for developing an embodied sense of self during the decision-making of everyday life and in performance making. In these workshops our focus will be listening and developing a practice of attention. This becomes the ground for deeper investigation of our bodymind. The workshops will include guided movement, imagery and directed touch. We will integrate the material through dance and Authentic Movement. Dance & theatre artists, yoga practitioners, educators and psychologists use BMC in the differing contexts of healing and art making. It is valued for its approach to somatic inquiry and sensory integration.
Dates: 9 November - 14 December read more...
OCTOBER
Body-Mind Centering, Authentic Movement, Improvisation
Riddells Creek - Opening Workshop/Retreat
A moving/retreat to open and celebrate the beginning of this new phase of research and development for Alice and the community of people interested in somatic studies, sensory integration and performance making.
Mornings will begin with a Body-Mind Centering® focus and somatisation, followed by partnering work with touch, moving and witnessing. In the afternoons, scores will be created to support participants learning at multiple levels of experience: physical; intuitive; imaginative and intellectual. The foundation of the practice is the intelligent bodymind from cellular organization to the integration of the whole organism. Time will be given to integrate through Authentic Movement, bush walks, and conversation.
Dates: 29, 30 & 31 October read more...
Introduction to the Developmental Movement Patterns
Tawonga
The Developmental Movement Patterns shape our understanding of the relationship between the development of human movement and consciousness. This workshop will be an opportunity to explore the evolutionary origins of movement through the pre-vertebrate and vertebrate patterns that underlie and support our psychophysical development and integration. These patterns establish a base for our perceptual relationships (including spatial orientation), and for our learning and communication. In the active process of embodying these patterns through play, movement, hands-on and shared dialogue we can perceive how we sense, feel and act in the world.
Dates: 7, 8 & 9 October read more...
A full-bodied life: Organ vitality
Sydney
Organs are the contents of our skeletal-muscular container. They are about process, presence and emotional expression. Their activity underlies the sequencing of our movement through space and they provide inner support for our movement, breath and voice. Our organs are integral to our sense of well-being and aliveness. During this weekend we will explore the sensing, feeling life of the organs, refining and differentiating their various qualities through touch, visualization, sounding and movement.
Dates: 1, 2 & 3 October read more...
SEPTEMBER
falling into love again ... through the constellation of our Endocrine System
Perth
The Endocrine System sends its hormone messages through the fluids to every cell. With the nervous and immune system, the glands support your life as an integrated organism. In other traditions the Endocrine System is understood as the Chakras. As a system it connects us beyond the material body to the complexity of existence … a constellation!
Celebrate the passing of winter and the emergence of spring, awaken your glands and feel the frisky exuberance of an enlivened Endocrine System!
Dates: 24 & 25 September read more...
AUGUST
Improvisation & Performance
Melbourne
These workshops will generate embodied performance making that is strongly based in an articulate body. Beginning with a somatic warm-up we will extend our movement and compositional vocabulary to create performances that are intelligent, spacious, tender and alive. Improvisation is the embodiment of the moment steeped in memory, narrative and meaning ...
Dates: 3 - 31 August read more...
JULY
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
Body-Mind Centering® is a practice of mindfulness that offers a unique and valuable process for developing an embodied sense of self during the decision-making of everyday life and in performance making. In these workshops our focus will be listening and developing a practice of attention.
Dates: 20 July - 31 August read more...
JUNE
Introduction to the Developmental Movement Patterns
Sydney
In the active process of embodying these patterns through play, movement, hands-on and shared dialogue we can perceive how we sense, feel and act in the world.
Dates: 11, 12 & 13 June read more...
Introduction to the Developmental Movement Patterns
Perth
In the active process of embodying these patterns through play, movement, hands-on and shared dialogue we can perceive how we sense, feel and act in the world.
Dates: 4, 5 & 6 June read more...
MAY
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
In these workshops our focus will be listening and developing a practice of attention. This becomes the ground for deeper investigation of our bodymind.
Dates: 4 May - 1 June read more...
MARCH
Membranes & the layered body: Navigating the interface
Melbourne
Membranes are the interface between inner and outer; personal and public; self and other. This workshop will be an inquiry into the extraordinary landscape of our bodies. Through movement, sound, anatomical illustrations and guided touch, participants will uncover the qualities of tensility and sustaining support that membranes extend throughout the body.
Dates: 12, 13 & 14 March read more...
Membranes & the layered body: Navigating the interface
Perth
Through movement, sound, anatomical illustrations and guided touch, participants will uncover the qualities of tensility and sustaining support that membranes extend throughout the body.
Dates: 5, 6 & 7 March read more...
FEBRUARY
Membranes & the layered body: Navigating the interface
Sydney
Through movement, sound, anatomical illustrations and guided touch, participants will uncover the qualities of tensility and sustaining support that membranes extend throughout the body.
Dates: 25, 26 & 27 February read more...
JANUARY
Dance and Performance Workshop
Denmark
Improvisation is the embodiment of the moment steeped in memory, narrative and meaning ... A one day workshop to immerse yourself in the world of improvisational dance and performance making with one of Australia's most skilled and experienced practitioners.
Date: 16 January read more...
2010 WORKSHOPS
Melbourne * Perth * Sydney * Darwin * Tawonga
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
In these workshops our focus will be to spend time listening and developing a practice of attention. This becomes the ground for deeper investigation of our bodymind.
Dates: 3 November - 8 December read more...
Improvisation & Performance
Melbourne
Beginning with a somatic warm-up we will extend our movement and compositional vocabulary to create performances that are intelligent, spacious, tender and alive.
Dates: 3 November - 8 December read more...
NOVEMBER
Momentum...listening...phrasing...stillness
Melbourne
This workshop is for the experienced performer and is intended to encourage a practice of self-inquiry within a community of learning. Beginning the day with a practice of attunement – somatic investigation will be used to encourage and facilitate original ways of moving, refine technique and develop sensitivity, awareness and relationship to space. We will practice composing our performances as we create them in the immediacy of improvisation, recognizing moments of serendipity, those ‘split seconds of paradise’ as we create meaning that suggests itself through the dancing and spatiality of the composition in group and solo work.
Dates: 6 & 7 November read more...
OCTOBER
The Heart of the Matter
Tawonga
The heart has its own profound intelligence. Over this weekend we will spend time contemplating, sounding and moving from the heart. In making time to be with our hearts it is my desire to listen, recognise and perhaps find a way of articulating, that which is troubling us as individuals and as a community. To give ‘voice’ to the unspeakable and form to the unknown whilst recognising the mystery that always surrounds deep investigation of matter and spirit. The heart sits at the centre of all this, beating patiently and constantly …
Dates: 22, 23, 24 October read more...
Momentum...listening...phrasing...stillness
Sydney
This workshop is for the experienced performer and is intended to encourage a practice of self-inquiry as we create and compose improvisational performances.
Dates: 2, 3, 4 October read more...
SEPTEMBER
Momentum...listening...phrasing...stillness
Perth
This workshop is for the experienced performer and is intended to encourage a practice of self-inquiry as we create and compose improvisational performances.
Date: 27 September read more...
A full-bodied life: Organ vitality
Perth
Organs are the contents of our skeletal-muscular container. They are about process, presence and emotional expression. During this weekend we will explore the sensing, feeling life of the organs, refining and differentiating their various qualities through touch, visualization, sounding and movement.
Dates: 25, 26 September read more...
AUGUST - MID SEPTEMBER
I will be in Europe on professional development. Beginning with a research residency in France with my colleague Sarita Beraha from Paris; Berlin for Tanz in August; and further performance research in Spain with Julyen Hamilton before returning home to Australia in mid-September to celebrate the next decade of my life ...!
JUNE
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
In these workshops our focus will be to spend time listening and developing a practice of attention. This becomes the ground for deeper investigation of our bodymind.
Dates: 30 June - 28 July read more...
Improvisation & Performance
Melbourne
Beginning with a somatic warm-up we will extend our movement and compositional vocabulary to create performances that are intelligent, spacious, tender and alive.
Dates: 30 June - 28 July read more...
A full-bodied life: Organ vitality
Melbourne
Organs are the contents of our skeletal-muscular container. They are about process, presence and emotional expression. During this weekend we will explore the sensing, feeling life of the organs, refining and differentiating their various qualities through touch, visualization, sounding and movement.
Dates: 12, 13, 14 June read more...
Navel Radiation
Perth
Navel Radiation is the Body-Mind Centering Developmental Movement pattern of radial symmetry and relates to our earliest connection with our mother, underlying attachment and support at the navel centre. The exploration and embodiment of Navel Radiation (the starfish) and its relationship to the later vertebrate patterns can support understanding of our life patterns and facilitate a change in physical, perceptual and psychological organisation. The navel centre is the crossroad of several pivotal physiological and structural systems, including the diaphragm, the psoas muscle, the termination of the spinal cord, and the kidneys. Over the course of the workshop we will explore these relationships.
Dates: 5, 6, 7 June read more...
MAY
The Heart of the Matter
Darwin
The heart has its own profound intelligence. Over this weekend we will spend time contemplating, sounding and moving from the heart.
Dates: 21, 22, 23 May read more...
APRIL
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
In these workshops our focus will be to spend time listening and developing a practice of attention. This becomes the ground for deeper investigation of our bodymind.
Dates: 28 April - 26 May read more...
Improvisation & Performance
Melbourne
Beginning with a somatic warm-up we will extend our movement and compositional vocabulary to create performances that are intelligent, spacious, tender and alive.
Dates: 28 April - 26 May read more...
Navel Radiation
Sydney
Navel Radiation is the Body-Mind Centering Developmental Movement pattern of radial symmetry and relates to our earliest connection with our mother, underlying attachment and support at the navel centre.
Dates: 24, 25, 26 April read more...
MARCH
Residing in the Bodymind
Melbourne
In these workshops our focus will be to spend time listening and developing a practice of attention. This becomes the ground for deeper investigation of our bodymind.
Dates: 10 March - 14 April read more...
Improvisation & Performance
Melbourne
Beginning with a somatic warm-up we will extend our movement and compositional vocabulary to create performances that are intelligent, spacious, tender and alive.
Dates: 10 March - 14 April read more...
Navel Radiation
Melbourne
Navel Radiation is the Body-Mind Centering Developmental Movement pattern of radial symmetry and relates to our earliest connection with our mother, underlying attachment and support at the navel centre.
Dates: 6, 7, 8 March read more...
JANUARY
Summer Performance Intensive
Melbourne
With Al Wunder & Alice Cummins
immediacy … intuition … interaction in improvisation
Dates: 18, 19, 20 22 January read more...
Summer Workshop
Perth
In this workshop we will generate embodied performance making that is strongly based in an articulate dancing body.
Dates: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 January read more...