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Geared toward Conscious Embodiment in Performance
| Somatic Movement Arts Festival Los Angeles, Sept 18-23, 2007 |
| Faculty Bios & Class Descriptions |
| Happening @ 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA 90404 *Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th Street *Continuum Studio #7, 1629 18th Street |
Produced by:
Dance Theatre
Presented by:
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| DAPHNE GEORGHIOU BODY-ART FLOW: Embody your inner Animal & Oceanic Wisdom 2 Part Intensive: Thurs, Oct 8, 9-11:30am and 12-2:30pm |
Part One
In the studio: Finding and dancing your Animal Ally
In this traditional Halprin workshop, you will be lead on a somatic exploration of discovering your animal ally
and tapping into animal ally wisdom to inform other areas of your life. The class will be cradled in Anna
Halprin’s dance as a healing art, sensory awareness, somatic movement ritual, and guided visualization
processes. On this creative, kinesthetic journey, we will bring in breath, sound, rhythm and body
awareness resources to allow your animal ally to organically emerge from an inner, primal experience. We
will work with art-making, poetic dialogue/writing, creative reenactments, partner and group collaborations,
using body, image and metaphor to create meaning.
Part Two
The Ocean and Embodied Movement
The second part of the Halprin workshop will include a trek to the ocean, where we will make physical and
sensorial contact with the natural landscape of the outer world. Using the same fluid movement inspiring
resources of somatic awareness, breath and sound, we will interact with nature as it relates to the inner,
aquatic environment of our own bodies. We will explore the beauty and pain of “nature as healer,” as per
Anna Halprin—going beyond language and moving into intuitive resonance with our kinesthetic experience
and the natural world.
In the studio: Finding and dancing your Animal Ally
In this traditional Halprin workshop, you will be lead on a somatic exploration of discovering your animal ally
and tapping into animal ally wisdom to inform other areas of your life. The class will be cradled in Anna
Halprin’s dance as a healing art, sensory awareness, somatic movement ritual, and guided visualization
processes. On this creative, kinesthetic journey, we will bring in breath, sound, rhythm and body
awareness resources to allow your animal ally to organically emerge from an inner, primal experience. We
will work with art-making, poetic dialogue/writing, creative reenactments, partner and group collaborations,
using body, image and metaphor to create meaning.
Part Two
The Ocean and Embodied Movement
The second part of the Halprin workshop will include a trek to the ocean, where we will make physical and
sensorial contact with the natural landscape of the outer world. Using the same fluid movement inspiring
resources of somatic awareness, breath and sound, we will interact with nature as it relates to the inner,
aquatic environment of our own bodies. We will explore the beauty and pain of “nature as healer,” as per
Anna Halprin—going beyond language and moving into intuitive resonance with our kinesthetic experience
and the natural world.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
BIOGRAPHY:
Daphne has been involved in theatre and the arts, particularly dance, since she was a child. Her dance
background is in Modern Jazz, African and Caribbean-based dance, and she performed at local venues in
San Francisco for several years. Daphne is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA, an
authorized Continuum Movement Teacher, and a certified Halprin Life-Art Process practitioner from
Tamalpa Institute—the first in-studio training center for body-based Expressive Arts Therapy. Daphne’s
Creative Soma Flow body of work draws particularly from Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement, Anna
Halprin’s ‘dance as a healing art.’ She has worked closely with Daria Halprin, cofounder and director of
Tamalpa Institute. Daphne is an associate Tamalpa teacher leading Halprin workshops nationally and
internationally. She trained with G.Hoffman Soto in his Performance Lab series and has been performing
somatic-based improvisation for over 12 years. Daphne is additionally a registered Jungian and Somatic-
based, Marriage and Family Therapist Intern close to licensure. Currently, Daphne leads women’s wisdom
workshops and creative somatic movement programs that honor the feminine.
Daphne Georghiou, MA, RSMT, CAMT, MFT Intern.
Halprin Life-Art Practitioner/ LA Associate Tamalpa Institute Teacher,
Certified Continuum Movement Teacher,
Registered Psychotherapist Intern,
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist.
Short Version:
Daphne Georghiou, founder of Therapy of Motion, is a Somatic Movement Therapist, clinical
psychotherapist, Continuum Movement teacher, and Halprin Life-Art
www.therapyofmotion.com. Tel: 310-622-4594
background is in Modern Jazz, African and Caribbean-based dance, and she performed at local venues in
San Francisco for several years. Daphne is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA, an
authorized Continuum Movement Teacher, and a certified Halprin Life-Art Process practitioner from
Tamalpa Institute—the first in-studio training center for body-based Expressive Arts Therapy. Daphne’s
Creative Soma Flow body of work draws particularly from Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement, Anna
Halprin’s ‘dance as a healing art.’ She has worked closely with Daria Halprin, cofounder and director of
Tamalpa Institute. Daphne is an associate Tamalpa teacher leading Halprin workshops nationally and
internationally. She trained with G.Hoffman Soto in his Performance Lab series and has been performing
somatic-based improvisation for over 12 years. Daphne is additionally a registered Jungian and Somatic-
based, Marriage and Family Therapist Intern close to licensure. Currently, Daphne leads women’s wisdom
workshops and creative somatic movement programs that honor the feminine.
Daphne Georghiou, MA, RSMT, CAMT, MFT Intern.
Halprin Life-Art Practitioner/ LA Associate Tamalpa Institute Teacher,
Certified Continuum Movement Teacher,
Registered Psychotherapist Intern,
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist.
Short Version:
Daphne Georghiou, founder of Therapy of Motion, is a Somatic Movement Therapist, clinical
psychotherapist, Continuum Movement teacher, and Halprin Life-Art
www.therapyofmotion.com. Tel: 310-622-4594
Daphne Georghiou
SOMA fest
