Joan Arnold
Dance and the Alexander Technique at Movement Research
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Joan Arnold Dance and the Alexander Technique
at Movement Research
Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway between Prince & Spring
Wednesday
September 26
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Class is 4
The Alexander Technique's simple, accessible tools are a boon to dancers
who seek to avoid injury while enlivening body and mind. Join Joan Arnold
for an exploration of the Technique through breath and movement.
Joan brings her long experience in dance and yoga to help students resolve
a wide range of body problems and find more comfort, resiliency
and expressiveness through the body. We will access awareness of
our internal rhythms to support improved technique and fresh improvisations.
Alexander Technique looks at the way we carry out our intentions.
Often we use a process that is habitual, unconscious, and counterproductive. The technique offers a practice of staying open and alert in the moment, observing our familiar tensions and choosing to move without them. Beginning with the assumption that we are perfectly designed for movement and balance, we engage our mind to undo layers of interference, creating an opportunity for change. Click here for more information from Movement Research Click here for a summary of one of the workshops in this series. |
Joan Arnold has been a movement educator for more than 30 years, teaching dance, exercise, yoga and the Alexander Technique. Formerly Director of Special Programs at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, she has a private practice in NYC and teaches workshops at yoga studios highlighting her synthesis of Anusara Yoga's alignment principles with Alexander Technique. She has written on teaching improvisation for Contact Quarterly and has written essays and features on mind/body subjects for national magazines. She performed with the Improvisational Dance Ensemble in the 80s, in Woodstock with Mark DeGarmo in September, 2009, and with Christopher Williams at Dance New Amsterdam in June, 2010. As Executive Director of the Ancram Opera House in upstate New York, she teaches ongoing yoga classes and co-produces music, dance and theater events.
For more information, click here for joanarnold.com. |
