Brain Body Connection with Natasha Martina
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 13 September 2021 from 2:30 PM (CDT) to 4:00 PM (CDT)224 25th St. W. , Saskatoon, SK S7L 0C4
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Overview
Professional and emerging dancers are welcome to attend either in-person (please register as such) or the online zoom platform-based Brain-Body Connection Professional Development Series hosted by Free Flow Dance Theatre free of charge. If you would like and can afford to make a donation to support the future of the company please do! We are pleased to host this series of workshops with the support of the Community Initiative Fund, City of Saskatoon, and Sasktel.
Body-Mind Centering®
We are all unique individuals and part of our genetic make-up is to honor that uniqueness within ourselves. And yet sometimes history influenced by genetics, trauma, illness, or injury can influence patterns within our body that don’t necessarily speak to our full potential as expressive human beings. Body-Mind Centering® is used as a tool to assist the individual to access new patterns of functionality and expressivity through mindful-consciousness facilitated through movement, voice and touch. The work can range from being very subtle in nature, incorporating the various anatomical and physiological routes into the body, or can also draw on more expressive components illuminating the psycho-physical connection.
This workshop will be split into two parts: finding the tone and vibrancy of the organs and then taking that awareness into sequencing movement through the support of the organs and how that rounds out our use of expressivity; and then exploring the transportation system of our body - the fluids (cellular, extracellular, transitional, blood, lymph, cerebral spinal fluid, synovial) - and how they play a major role in counterbalancing rest and action alongside our emotions.
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Natasha Martina is a Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in movement for actors. She completed her master’s degree from Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK) in Movement Pedagogy and Movement Direction and is certified as a Laban Movement Analyst (CMA), Somatic Movement Educator (BMC®), yoga teacher, and GYROKINESIS® apprentice. She has worked as an actor on stage and screen, and she has movement directed and coached numerous theatrical productions nationally and internationally. Natasha believes the universal language resides in one’s ability to express themselves through movement. The subtlest gesture can say so much.
Natasha will be teaching on September 13th, 2:30-4 pm Saskatchewan Time.