Craft Development: Workshop with Donna Redlick

Craft Development series

A Somatic Approach to Teaching Dance
Workshop with Donna Redlick

Learn how to set up a dance environment that invites students to integrate a body-mind connection and engage in process-based learning. Discover how to guide and cue students so they can dive deeper into their personal sensing experience and take agency for their own embodied learning. Rather than teach dance through a ‘watch and do’ method (outer oriented), learn how to guide students through a ‘sense and experience’ method (inner oriented).

This workshop is part theoretical and part practical.

Part 1: Theory/ Discussion What is a somatic approach to teaching dance and how can we set up a dance environment that supports process-based learning?

Part 2: Practical Integrating methods and exercises into the classroom to engage students to deepen their sensing experience and body-mind connection, and learning to move beyond habitual patterns of movement to find ‘the new'.

Bring a notebook and wear clothes you can move in. Open to all dance artists and teachers of all genres, who work with, or want to work with, teens, adults, and older adults. 

Registration and fees:

Early Bird: $21 Dance Centre Members/$32 non-members on or before September 29, 2022
Regular: $26 Dance Centre Members/$37 non-members after September 29, 2022
Prices include GST.

Information and assistance:

Email members@thedancecentre.ca or call 604.606.6416.

Please mention any accessibility needs on registration, and we will try to accommodate everyone.
We are pleased to offer ASL interpretation: if you require ASL interpretation, please indicate on your registration no later than September 29.

Photo: Tonya Ng, Moving Arts & Somatic Studies (all rights reserved)