THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF MAKING CONNECTIONS / NADIA CUSIMANO
The essence of movement is constant change. As we move we are constantly making connections, creating relationships both within and between the world and ourselves. Producing a web of endless possibilities and responses. I believe it is this constant dynamic dialogue between ones inner awareness and action/outer expression that allows us to find a balanced and efficient alignment within body, mind and intention.
CLASS OUTLINE
Each day the class we will begin with a somatic investigation based on the *BMC™ method of experiential anatomy. Through different modalities of touch, moving, vocalisation and visualisation we will explore the skeleton system, the organs, the fluids and our basic neurological patterning, opening one up to a greater sphere of personal discovery, whilst offering insights and understandings to embody these findings in your own individual and unique way.
Being a dancer, a certified Pilates teacher and a qualified Somatic Movement Educator, I am able to draw from a huge range of information and experience and my aim is to apply this knowledge of embodiment into efficient functional movement scenarios where the sense of moving from ones own center is fundamental. We will practice and generate an ability to make these connections through a series of basic exercises that are specifically designed to strengthen core muscles and integrate them into our own kinesphere.
An underlying theme will be in developing strategies to approach the same movement routine with the mind of a different system, so to say with a different mind. To expose and challenge our habitual modes of thinking about what we can or cannot do. Opening new pathways to monitor ourselves through our discoveries whilst establishing creative methodologies to sensing what it means to initiate action from another place, maybe more unusual than before. Experiencing and understanding that as our movement patterns becomes more complex we have a tendency to "forget" that we are connected to ourselves in a greater totality. Particular attention will be placed on breathing as a pattern, how we are standing on our feet, our hips in relationship to pelvis and spine, how ones organs support postural alignment and how to listen and communicate within our own body to avoid unnecessary stress. Producing functionality through efficiency and greater understanding.
At the heart of this teaching is to pass on a sense of individual self-sufficiency through enhanced perceptive awareness. These classes are open to any age and body shape and no previous movement training is required. Please wear loose clothing and bring a mat/blanket to lie on.
Body-Mind Centering BMC™ is an experiential anatomy study created by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. To know more: www.bodymindcentering.org
THE TEACHERS
Nadia Cusimano
is a BMC™ Somatic Movement Educator and a certified Classical Peak Pilates® instructor teaching for various dance companies, individuals and Pilates studios in Berlin, London and Australia. She has a diploma in Sports Education (Milan), a BA in Performing Arts (E.D.D.C. - Arnhem) and was a full time member of Sasha Waltz & Guests dance-company from 1996 to 2002 in Berlin. In 2003 she was co-editor with Dr. Karl Stocker on Insideout, a book about social cultural studies that investigated the transient lifestyle of dancers as part of the Graz European Cultural Capital program and since 2004 has been a guest lecturer at the department of Exhibition and Museum Studies, Fh-Joanneum in Graz. She founded the company Le due Moine with Paola Bartoletti in 2008, touring the text based work Messa Insieme throughout Italy and continues with a new production in 2010. She has collaborated on projects with the choreographers Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Tino Seghal, Ami Garmon, Constanza Macras, Luc Dunberry, Paul Gazzola, Karen Nelson and Nigel Charnock and most recently performed The Runner as part of the SPCP Solo Performance Commissioned Project from Deborah Hay at the new Uferstudios in Berlin.
CONTACT - nadiacusimano@googlemail.com
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Daelik
Daelik has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for 17 years. He was a company member of EDAM for 6 years where he taught classes ranging from open community level to professional level. In Vancouver, Daelik has taught classes to students of Main Dance, Ballet BC Mentor Program, SFU Dance Program and Roundhouse Community Dancers, as well as workshops through his own company, MACHiNENOiSY. Daelik has taught classes across Canada and internationally, including classes to professional dance companies such as Diversions Dance (Wales), Macedonian State Dance Company (Greece), and Tanzkompanie Oldenburg (Germany). Between 2000 and 2005 Daelik was a sessional instructor at Die Etage, a professional dance training program, Berlin.
Delia
Delia has been practicing contact improvisation for 15 years. She has been a company menber of EDAM dance, Vancouver's contact dance based company, since 1997. She has been teaching contact at EDAM for 6 years to professional dancers and novices alike. She has taught in Austria and the United States for people of mixed levels, ages and languages. She has taught at SFU,UBC, Andrew Macillroy's Summer Camp for Actors, Ballet BC Mentor Program, Round House Community Dancers and led a week long contact intensive with Karl Frost in Port Townsend, Washington. She continues to teach with Daelik through MACHiNENOiSY, offering workshops from beginner to advanced dancers.
