Embodied People

This solo cast is a reflection and movement meditation on the core of the body, and connecting into the core of your body as a way of connecting into an enduring image of the self. Perhaps exploring this image inwardly and in movement, we strengthen our sense of who we are at our deepest center.

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies 

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Music by Jordan Rosen

Jeffrey Peterson began his life as a movement professional in marching bands before making his way to jazz dance and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. In this interview with Jeffrey we discuss the ecstasy of large group unison and the push towards perfectionism.

We also discuss how Jeffrey has worked with personal uniqueness as an antidote to perfectionism and to a way to find yourself in group unison. This beautiful conversation has connections to teaching dance, developing as an artist and how we find ourselves again and again in the movement arts. 

 

Bio:  Jeffrey Peterson received his CLMA from Integrated Movement Studies in 2013 and also holds an MFA in dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and aBFA in dance from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. 

Peterson is the Program Director and Assistant Professor of Dance at Winona State University in Winona, MN. With 17 years of experience in higher education, he’s previously taught at Gustavus Adolphus, St. Olaf, and Muhlenberg Colleges, among others. His research on the intersections of L/BMA and jazz dance pedagogy has twice been presented at NDEO, in addition to the Somatic Dance Conference (NY) and the Moving From Within Conference in southern Germany.

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Jordan Rosen

All of life is made of of cycles and phrases. We know this intellectually, but we also know it physically... Sarah and Colleen explore the idea of phrases in life and phrases in movement. They reflect on how things - semesters, projects, relationships - begin and end. And the offer a guided movement experience for connecting to your body as a way to connect and move through to the phrases of your life. 

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Embodied People if co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Jordan Rosen

Dive into the pathway of connection between your head and your tail with Colleen. Our previous two episodes have explored each end of this pathway in their own right. This episode follows along the spine, the cerebral spinal fluid, the digestive tract to explore the many ways our bodies connect along our mid-line.

 

Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Embodied People is part of the Integrated Movement Studies educational offerings

Sound by Jordan Rosen

Art by Erin Law

 

In this mini-sode, Colleen guides you to move with more ease and efficiency. Listen as you learn to root through the tail to move through space - much like a fish does. This mobilizes the body and produces freer, easier, more supported movement. It makes it easier, so much easier to move through space!

 

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson

This short guided movement meditation focuses on the head and neck. As it introduces you to greater awareness of these areas of the body it also explore images and metaphors related to freeing up pain and opening movement potential here.

 

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

The struggle to make decisions about what is right for you at any given time is something experience over and over in life. This Embodied People is a meditation in the form of a talk Colleen wrote. It guides you to connect to your center and your world around you as you make choices about where to go with your life - in essence where to place your feet on the earth, your hands in what you make and your eyes for where you give attention.

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies. 

And is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl.

 

 

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

We kick off the newest season of Embodied People with an interview with Alexandra Beller! This episode feels important - it explores living a creative life through your moving body, especially somatic resources for more fully connecting to your wise tissues. 

 

Bio for Alexandra Beller

Alexandra has taught for over 25 years in fields spanning dance, theater, and somatics. Her international performance career includes seven years with the Bill. T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company projects with Martha Clarke, John Turturro, and others. Alexandra Beller/Dances was formed in 2001 and she has created over 40 original Dance Theater works for her own, and other, companies. Her choreography has been presented in US theaters and Korea, Hong Kong, Oslo, Cyprus, St. Petersburg, and Poland.

Alexandra holds a BFA/Dance, MFA/Dance, and CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals. She was on faculty at Princeton University from 2015-2022 and currently teaches Somatics, Laban, and Bartenieff as Core Faculty at The Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies. She guest teaches nationally and internationally and creates workshops for her company in Laban/Bartenieff, Directing, Dramaturgy, Pedagogy, Choreography, Dance for Screen, and more. She has a thriving private healing, alignment, and somatic practices. For more info: www.alexandrabellerdances.org or, for choreographic work: www.alexandrabeller.com.

 

Study with her: 

• The Anatomy of Choice: A comprehensive digital course in Laban and Bartenieff: AoC
• Embodied Meaning: a digital course in expressive performance for theater and dance: EM
• Praxispace: an artistic community and library of scores, essays, and choreographic exercises: Praxispace

 

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Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl and sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies.

 

It is time to close out 2024 and move into 2025! This episode is a moving meditation. It guides you into your body for the wisdom and guidance to support you in this next year. We begin with a centering and mobilizing practice and then into your heart to listen and receive its messages. 

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson

 

This is our final episode in our series on Laban's Effort Factors - Time, Weight, Flow and finally SPACE! Space Effort highlights how our movement reveals the energy of our attention. When is it channeled and laser-like? When is it global and all-encompassing? And, when do you we drop out of Space, such that our thinking selves pause as other energies (Efforts) take focus. 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

And co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Music by Nate Anderson

Images by Erin Law