download pdf
Workshops offered by RoseAnne Spradlin
Contact: ra6151@aol.com
RoseAnne Spradlin has taught workshops in movement and choreography in New York City, at the American Dance Festival, in Greece, at the TanzImAugust Festival in Berlin, at ImPulsTanz in Vienna, through Contradance in Brussels, Independent Dance in London and in Body-Mind Centering® programs in Paris, Berkeley, CA and Amherst, MA.
Body, Culture and Performance
This one-week workshop will begin by looking at each participant's presence as a performer and will then look at how one's presence is expressed in relationship to choreographic material, other performers onstage and to the audience. In-class studies will explore performance options in relationship, for example, when does the performers choose confrontation? seduction? compassion?
Other explorations in the week of classes include delving into one's cultural imprints, both those that are well known, and those that may be hidden or unacknowledged.
Classes will draw on basic material from the Body-Mind Centering® work to access and explore various options of body organization and states of being. Spradlin's experience as a choreographer and director helps to focus this rich material toward questions of performance.
Choreography and Composition
RoseAnne Spradlin is available for short-term teaching of choreography and composition workshops and for mentoring specific individual projects.
The Nervous System in Movement
In this one-week workshop, RoseAnne Spradlin leads participants through an experience of aspects of the nervous system, exploring how the nervous system organizes experience and expresses itself in functional and creative movement. Material to be covered in the classes includes:
* the superficial nervous system network underlying the skin and the enteric nervous system of the gut, which together provide the most instinctual aspects of the nervous system. These layers of the nervous system respond automatically to stimuli from the environment and act as filters to accept or reject aspects of experience.
* the autonomic nervous system, which controls, among other things, the blood flow to organs and muscles, and relates to our emotional organization and the personal history of our experiences.
* the central nervous system, aspects of the brain and spinal cord that includes both conscious and unconscious processes, holding keys to rejuvenation and access to the imagination.
RoseAnne's approach brings together her study and practice of Body-Mind Centering® and Chinese Medicine, informed by her years of creative work as a choreographer of contemporary dance. Classes will explore the principles through movement improvisations, guided embodiment and partnering work.
Other Body-Mind Centering® work offered in flexible formats
Body Systems (Skeletal System, Organ System, Endocrine System, Nervous System, Muscular System and Fluid System) and their influence of movement initiation, movement quality and 'mind'.
Developmental Movement, from basic reflexes to more complex patterns, a look at the underlying structure of human movement; embryological development.
