Body-Mind Centering® Dance Labs

Body-Mind Centering® Dance Labs a 4-week series with Cathie Caraker A somatic approach to dance training that integrates embodied anatomy, partner work and improvisation from the ground up. Material will be drawn from Body-Mind Centering® (BMC), a dynamic and creative embodiment practice. Starting low with developmental movement patterns and reflexes cultivates ease and connection, preparing our bodies and minds for multidirectional pathways through space, disorientation, rigorous research and spontaneous composition. Each class will investigate the structure and expression of a specific body system through touch and movement, following our curiosity and kinesthetic appetite to expand and refine our dance vocabularies. WHEN: Monday and Wednesday mornings 10 - 12, 10/27 - 11/19 WHERE: ODC Dance Commons on 10/27, 10/29, 11/3, 11/5 351 Shotwell St, SF LEVY Studio on 11/10, 11/12, 11/17 and 11/19 19 Heron St, SF More info at: www.caraker.com http://www.odcdance.org/school.php Cathie Caraker is an international dance artist and teacher. A native of San Francisco, she moved to Amsterdam in the 1980's, where she graduated from the Theaterschool for New Dance Development (SNDD), the choreography dept of the Amsterdam School for the Arts. There she worked extensively with pioneers such as Pauline de Groot, Julyen Hamilton, Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Nancy Stark Smith and Nancy Topf. She holds an MFA in Dance and is a certified Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® as well as a longtime instructor of Pilates and Gyrotonic. Cathie was on the faculty of the SNDD from 1995-2005, and has also taught in numerous dance programs, including Amherst, Mt Holyoke, Brown, Middlebury, Bennington, Denison, the Seattle Festival of Improvisation, Movement Research, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Contredanse, Contact Festival Freiburg, WCCIJam and the West Coast Dance Intensive. Her performance work has been produced by theaters including DTW, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the New York Improvisation Festival, Amsterdam's Nestheaters and Ackerstadt Palast in Berlin. She was an Artist in Residence at CounterPulse with Katarina Eriksson and has most recently been performing in the work of Rosemary Hannon.