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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:
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Dance Theatre
Dance Theatre
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| EMILIE CONRAD CONTINUUM MOVEMENT & CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 1 Part Class: Tues Sept 28, 4-6:30pm |
Explore how the inner process of Continuum discovery spills into the outer reaches of relationship.
Inspired by Emilie’s group performances by Continuum's Somatic Movement Theater in SOMA FEST
2007 and 2008, Continuum's process of creative discovery will be shared in this workshop. Starting
with a Continuum Dive, we will begin our group preparation and then shift our inner experience into an
outer world "play". The discovery of gesture will emerge into character expression.
Continuum is a revolutionary approach to a quantum re-mapping of the human body. Tissue structure
becomes multi-dimensional as streams of nourishment are readily absorbed as if one were bathing in
the elixir of life itself. Become adventurers in the unmapped territories of the human body.
Experience the scope of our humanity by entering into frequency realms that are not bound by time,
space or condition. Learn to move with profound restorative energies that enrich our consciousness
and nourish our souls.
Inspired by Emilie’s group performances by Continuum's Somatic Movement Theater in SOMA FEST
2007 and 2008, Continuum's process of creative discovery will be shared in this workshop. Starting
with a Continuum Dive, we will begin our group preparation and then shift our inner experience into an
outer world "play". The discovery of gesture will emerge into character expression.
Continuum is a revolutionary approach to a quantum re-mapping of the human body. Tissue structure
becomes multi-dimensional as streams of nourishment are readily absorbed as if one were bathing in
the elixir of life itself. Become adventurers in the unmapped territories of the human body.
Experience the scope of our humanity by entering into frequency realms that are not bound by time,
space or condition. Learn to move with profound restorative energies that enrich our consciousness
and nourish our souls.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
BIOGRAPHY:
Emilie Conrad, founder and director of Continuum, is a visionary whose capacity for
innovation has had a major transformational impact on professionals in the Somatic fields,
movement education, dance, and physical fitness. Her most recent contribution is her
revolutionary concept of “The Three Anatomies”. Here she defines three distinct tissue
structures as the cultural, primordial, and cosmic anatomies. Emilie tells us: “becoming
cultural inhibitors, helping us to move beyond our stifling adaptive patterns, ultimately
becoming a resource for health and creativity.” .
She has received awards for “Movement Teacher” of the year and for her work as a
Somatics Pioneer.
Emilie Conrad was born and raised in New York City where she studied ballet and Afro-
Haitian dance. Her early influences were Sevilla Fort, Katherine Dunham, Robert Joffrey
and Don Farnsworth. Subsequently, she spent five years as a choreographer with a
folklore company in Haiti furthering her interest in Haitian dance.
Her love for movement inspired her to discover the essential, primary movements
common to all life forms that lie beneath cultural influence. These fundamental
movements are a "cosmology" of life, where form is fluidly mutable, dissolving and shaping
itself anew.
In 1963 she moved to Los Angeles where she began teaching at the Actors Studio. Her
novel approach to movement enriched the performing artist and led to choreographing and
directing many plays and performance works. Her choreography has been seen at: the
Japan America Theatre, John Anson Ford, Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Theatre West,
Pasadena Art Museum, Highways, UCLA, Actors Studio West. She continues to develop the
art of performance.
Emilie is the author of "Life on Land", recently published by North Atlantic Press. She
has been a featured teacher, lecturer, and Keynoter at: Sri Aurobindo Assoc. in America,
American Humanistic Psychology, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, U of San
Jose, U of Arizona, Rolf Institute, Esalen Institute, Newport Sports Clinic, Center for
the Healing Arts, Open Center NYC, Tarrytown Group, Omega Institute NY, Common
Boundary, Naropa Institute, Kripalu Institute, Actors Studio West, Lee Strassberg
Institute. She has been on the advisory board of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation,
Orange, NJ. and Bio-energy Field Foundation, Malibu, Ca. (Dr. Valerie Hunt). She has led
workshops throughout the US, Canada and Europe
innovation has had a major transformational impact on professionals in the Somatic fields,
movement education, dance, and physical fitness. Her most recent contribution is her
revolutionary concept of “The Three Anatomies”. Here she defines three distinct tissue
structures as the cultural, primordial, and cosmic anatomies. Emilie tells us: “becoming
cultural inhibitors, helping us to move beyond our stifling adaptive patterns, ultimately
becoming a resource for health and creativity.” .
She has received awards for “Movement Teacher” of the year and for her work as a
Somatics Pioneer.
Emilie Conrad was born and raised in New York City where she studied ballet and Afro-
Haitian dance. Her early influences were Sevilla Fort, Katherine Dunham, Robert Joffrey
and Don Farnsworth. Subsequently, she spent five years as a choreographer with a
folklore company in Haiti furthering her interest in Haitian dance.
Her love for movement inspired her to discover the essential, primary movements
common to all life forms that lie beneath cultural influence. These fundamental
movements are a "cosmology" of life, where form is fluidly mutable, dissolving and shaping
itself anew.
In 1963 she moved to Los Angeles where she began teaching at the Actors Studio. Her
novel approach to movement enriched the performing artist and led to choreographing and
directing many plays and performance works. Her choreography has been seen at: the
Japan America Theatre, John Anson Ford, Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Theatre West,
Pasadena Art Museum, Highways, UCLA, Actors Studio West. She continues to develop the
art of performance.
Emilie is the author of "Life on Land", recently published by North Atlantic Press. She
has been a featured teacher, lecturer, and Keynoter at: Sri Aurobindo Assoc. in America,
American Humanistic Psychology, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, U of San
Jose, U of Arizona, Rolf Institute, Esalen Institute, Newport Sports Clinic, Center for
the Healing Arts, Open Center NYC, Tarrytown Group, Omega Institute NY, Common
Boundary, Naropa Institute, Kripalu Institute, Actors Studio West, Lee Strassberg
Institute. She has been on the advisory board of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation,
Orange, NJ. and Bio-energy Field Foundation, Malibu, Ca. (Dr. Valerie Hunt). She has led
workshops throughout the US, Canada and Europe
Emilie Conrad
Emilie Conrad
SOMA fest
| Performance Lab: "Conscious Embodiment" ™ Facilitators: Emilie Conrad, Caryn Heilman & Teri Carter 5 Day Intensive: Tues-Sat, Sept 28 - Oct 2, 12-3pm + Sunday Performance |
