Body-Mind Centering® with Cathie Caraker: Somatic Practices for Dance and Life

This will be a daylong immersion in somatic and creative movement practices. As we head into the growth cycle of Spring, we’ll create a container for rest and regeneration, for connection and play. We’ll ground our felt bodies through developmental movement practices, finding support from the organs, fluids and bones. Fine-tuning our sense perceptions, we’ll dance and witness each other through the practices of Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement. We’ll do some creative journaling, re-framing our questions and composting our experiences. This workshop is open to all. Questions? Reach out to Merrick at [email protected] Cathie Caraker, MFA, SMT/E is a dance artist and educator who has been working in the fields of dance and somatics for 35 years. She has taught extensively at dance institutes and festivals across Europe and the Americas. She was introduced to Contact Improvisation by Nancy Stark Smith as a young dance student, and worked extensively with Nancy, Steve Paxton and other founders of the form. She studied with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the founder of Body-Mind Centering®, becoming a certified Practitioner of BMC. She holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College. Cathie was on the faculty of the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam for 10 years. Her performance work has been presented at venues in New York, Seattle, Amsterdam, Berlin, São Paulo and San Francisco. Her writings on Body-Mind Centering® as a somatic approach to dance education have been published by Nouvelles de Danse. More info at cathiecaraker.com