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Somatic Movement Arts Festival, L.A.
CARYN HEILMAN
kinesthetic experience? The SOMA Fest Collaborative Performance Lab is an opportunity to develop
ideas and collaborate with other somatic based artists in bringing kinesthetically-sourced movement to
the performance arena.
Ideal for individuals willing to explore in a communal environment, create a collaborative group score.
Bring seeds of ideas for somatic performance works, develop ideas and learn from each other,
culminating in a night of performance.
The Lab is a 4 day workshop – 3 hours per day, plus designated rehearsal time and participation in one
of the weekend performances. Each class will begin with a somatic movement warm-up preparation and
performance score practice. Participants will then share ideas and collaborate on developing an ongoing
road map, the score for a final matinee performance on Sunday, October 11.
The performance lab facilitators will serve to help integrate somatic practices within improvisation
and compositional performance work.
ideas and collaborate with other somatic based artists in bringing kinesthetically-sourced movement to
the performance arena.
Ideal for individuals willing to explore in a communal environment, create a collaborative group score.
Bring seeds of ideas for somatic performance works, develop ideas and learn from each other,
culminating in a night of performance.
The Lab is a 4 day workshop – 3 hours per day, plus designated rehearsal time and participation in one
of the weekend performances. Each class will begin with a somatic movement warm-up preparation and
performance score practice. Participants will then share ideas and collaborate on developing an ongoing
road map, the score for a final matinee performance on Sunday, October 11.
The performance lab facilitators will serve to help integrate somatic practices within improvisation
and compositional performance work.
| Space is Limited to 12 Performance Lab cost: $120 Performance Lab participants are eligible to receive 25% off the full cost of SOMA Fest main registration fee! |
| Performance Lab: "Conscious Embodiment" ™ Facilitators: Emilie Conrad, Caryn Heilman & Teri Carter 5 Day Intensive: Tues-Sat, Sept 28 - Oct 2, 12-3pm + Sunday Performance |
CARYN HEILMAN - Bio
Caryn Heilman danced for the Paul Taylor Dance Company for ten years (and is featured in the Emmy-
nominated documentary Dancemaker) before founding LiquidBody media, movement and dance.
She has taught graduate classes in multimedia and multidisciplinary performance at the University of
California, Irvine in the Studio Art, Drama and Dance departments and has been an artist in residence
and taught master classes at Princeton, Hollins, Texas Christian and Dennison Universities, Smith
College, Beijiing Dance Academy, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Orange County and LaGuardia High
Schools of the Arts and more. She has taught with and been mentored by award-winning filmmaker and
postmodern dance icon Yvonne Rainer, intermedia artist Annie Loui, John Crawford, founder of the
Embodied Media + Technology Performance Lab and Emmy-nominated choreographer Paul Taylor. She
has choreographed for Julianne Moore in The Forgotten, for animations by DorosMotion and Volvox,
and for the theater company Mad Woman of the Woods and was hired for The Acting Company’s
production of American Dreams. She created multimedia for the premiere of award-winning hip-hop
choreographer Rennie Harris’s Something to Do with Love. Her multimedia work has recently been
commissioned in New York and L.A. and is currently on exhibit at the networked art site turbulence.org
(http://turbulence.org/Works/touching_gravity/).
Caryn has studied Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad for 15 years and is on the teacher track in
Continuum. She has training in other somatic practices in addition to dance. Having received direct
choreographic mentoring from one of American Modern Dance’s recognized masters, Caryn has taken
that foundation into more experimental territory, focusing on the fluid systems of the body and hybrid
improvisational choreographic structures that include audience interaction, multimedia, live music and
aerial dance. She is artistic director of Topia Arts Center, a green arts and education center in
development in the northern Berkshires where she helped build the ultra green Topia Inn. For more
info visit www.LiquidBody.org, www.TopiaArts.org and www.TopiaInn.com and on Facebook/Twitter.
Caryn Heilman danced for the Paul Taylor Dance Company for ten years (and is featured in the Emmy-
nominated documentary Dancemaker) before founding LiquidBody media, movement and dance.
She has taught graduate classes in multimedia and multidisciplinary performance at the University of
California, Irvine in the Studio Art, Drama and Dance departments and has been an artist in residence
and taught master classes at Princeton, Hollins, Texas Christian and Dennison Universities, Smith
College, Beijiing Dance Academy, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Orange County and LaGuardia High
Schools of the Arts and more. She has taught with and been mentored by award-winning filmmaker and
postmodern dance icon Yvonne Rainer, intermedia artist Annie Loui, John Crawford, founder of the
Embodied Media + Technology Performance Lab and Emmy-nominated choreographer Paul Taylor. She
has choreographed for Julianne Moore in The Forgotten, for animations by DorosMotion and Volvox,
and for the theater company Mad Woman of the Woods and was hired for The Acting Company’s
production of American Dreams. She created multimedia for the premiere of award-winning hip-hop
choreographer Rennie Harris’s Something to Do with Love. Her multimedia work has recently been
commissioned in New York and L.A. and is currently on exhibit at the networked art site turbulence.org
(http://turbulence.org/Works/touching_gravity/).
Caryn has studied Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad for 15 years and is on the teacher track in
Continuum. She has training in other somatic practices in addition to dance. Having received direct
choreographic mentoring from one of American Modern Dance’s recognized masters, Caryn has taken
that foundation into more experimental territory, focusing on the fluid systems of the body and hybrid
improvisational choreographic structures that include audience interaction, multimedia, live music and
aerial dance. She is artistic director of Topia Arts Center, a green arts and education center in
development in the northern Berkshires where she helped build the ultra green Topia Inn. For more
info visit www.LiquidBody.org, www.TopiaArts.org and www.TopiaInn.com and on Facebook/Twitter.
Performance Lab General CLASS DESCRIPTION
LiquidBody explores movement in all of its many manifestations – as choreography, as flows of systems,
as information. It is organized into three interrelated entities that support one another – LiquidBody
dance, LiquidBody media and LiquidBody movement. LiquidBody dance works to refine the art of
movement. It is a dance company. LiquidBody Media experiments with the use of moving images in
digital formats and is particularly interested in the nonlinear possibilities for expression opened up by
these mediums. LiquidBody Movement explores human movement potential nurturing a creative
community focused on experiential learning and dynamic sharing of research.
LiquidBody’s vision looks at moving systems, the human body’s movement potential, the body’s fluid
origins, connections with the earth’s systems, and flows of movement through our society. LiquidBody is
about expressing the art of movement, about excavating deep knowledge about the body as a moving
system and sharing that knowledge in tangible and exciting ways. LiquidBody is at the frontier of a new
dance paradigm expanding vocabulary, methods of training and how dance is experienced. LiquidBody is
also creating spaces where people explore their own movement potential, and where people can move
together, creating community and nurturing aliveness. It is interactive, dynamic and sensitive to the
needs of the people it serves, and accessible to a worldwide audience with diverse ethnic,
socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds and to people of all ages.
as information. It is organized into three interrelated entities that support one another – LiquidBody
dance, LiquidBody media and LiquidBody movement. LiquidBody dance works to refine the art of
movement. It is a dance company. LiquidBody Media experiments with the use of moving images in
digital formats and is particularly interested in the nonlinear possibilities for expression opened up by
these mediums. LiquidBody Movement explores human movement potential nurturing a creative
community focused on experiential learning and dynamic sharing of research.
LiquidBody’s vision looks at moving systems, the human body’s movement potential, the body’s fluid
origins, connections with the earth’s systems, and flows of movement through our society. LiquidBody is
about expressing the art of movement, about excavating deep knowledge about the body as a moving
system and sharing that knowledge in tangible and exciting ways. LiquidBody is at the frontier of a new
dance paradigm expanding vocabulary, methods of training and how dance is experienced. LiquidBody is
also creating spaces where people explore their own movement potential, and where people can move
together, creating community and nurturing aliveness. It is interactive, dynamic and sensitive to the
needs of the people it serves, and accessible to a worldwide audience with diverse ethnic,
socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds and to people of all ages.
| Caryn Heilman |
| Caryn Heilman |
| Caryn Heilman |
SOMA fest
| LiquidBody Dance 1 Part Class: Thurs, Sept 30, 4-6:30pm |
