Workshops

Independance endeavours to host workshops with a wide variety of different focuses throughout the year.
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Proto-technique class : Moving From the Fish Body

with Malcolm Manning 
​This is a process-oriented dance class focused on how we experience ourselves moving.  The aim is to develop self-awareness as a tool for creating and refining our own dance practices: widening the range of movement vocabulary and qualities; improving ease, efficiency and flow in movement; recovering from and avoiding injury.
The impossibility of a purely physical training is assumed from the start. The class encourages critical and conceptual interrogation of the many discourses that shape our experience. The invitation is to enter into a perceptual dialogue with ourselves in which we become the experts of our own experience.
The classes may include material from experiential anatomy, ideokinesis and the Feldenkrais Method. They are part interactive lecture, part guided and part open movement exploration. The invitation is to enter into a perceptual dialogue with ourselves in which we become the experts of our own experience.

Malcolm Manning : I think of myself as a somatic movement researcher, educator, mentor and artist. In my teaching, I aim to share my inquiry of what it is to be a thinking, feeling, moving subject in this world..

I am certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method® and the Body And Earth work developed by Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. I studied for two years at SNDO Amsterdam and have an MA in Dance Pedagogy.I have also made extensive studies of Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, Movement Shiatsu, Ideokinesis, Body Mind Centering and experiential anatomy.

I specialise in teaching the application of somatic approaches to contemporary dance practices. I currently teach in both the Danish and Finnish national schools of performing arts and at contemporary dance centres (eg. TanzFabrik, TanzQuartierWien, K3) and festivals (eg. ImpulsTanz, TanzWerkstatt Europa, Bolzano Danza) in Europe and beyond.

More info about Malcolm at : movetolearn.com

Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th December
Time: 10am-4pm
Price: $100 Student $80
At: Wellesley Studios
Registrations to: info@independancenz.org
by November 30th
All interested bodies welcome!
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