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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:
INTENTION
Dance Theatre
Dance Theatre
Presented by:
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| GABRIEL ORSHAN ALCHEMY of TAI CHI / BODY-MIND CENTERING / CONTINUUM Movement Innovation From the Inside Out Single Class: Thurs, Sept 30, 7:30-10pm |
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
BIOGRAPHY:
Gabriel Orshan brings over 20 years of experience as a dancer, performer, martial artist, and somatic
movement educator to his classes. He graduated from Body-Mind Centering's four year training
program, and is currently a member of Emilie Conrad's 'Continuum Movement Theater Ensemble' and
Teri Carter's 'Intention Dance Theatre'. Gabriel Orshan has learned and worked with some of the
pioneers of the Western Somatics movement, as well as numerous teachers and practitioners from
Asia and India. He learned personally and closely with several prominent masters, most notably Taoist
monk and martial artist Kwan Saihung, originally from pre-communist China; and, martial arts master
and researcher Su Dong-Chen, founder of Essence of Evolution, from Taiwan and Japan. He studied
post-modern philosophy with Richard Shapiro, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and others
at New College of California, in San Francisco. Also at New College he was introduced to the field of
somatics and modern-dance by teachers Gary Soto and Theresa Dickenson. Later he studied Contact
Improv with Scott Wells and Keriac in San Francisco, as well as ballet at Orches Dance Space in
Oakland, CA. Currently Gabriel lives and works in Los Angeles, teaching Somatics, martial-arts, doing
bodywork with clients, and is in Emperor's College Master's program of Traditional Oriental Medicine
studying acupuncture and herbology.
movement educator to his classes. He graduated from Body-Mind Centering's four year training
program, and is currently a member of Emilie Conrad's 'Continuum Movement Theater Ensemble' and
Teri Carter's 'Intention Dance Theatre'. Gabriel Orshan has learned and worked with some of the
pioneers of the Western Somatics movement, as well as numerous teachers and practitioners from
Asia and India. He learned personally and closely with several prominent masters, most notably Taoist
monk and martial artist Kwan Saihung, originally from pre-communist China; and, martial arts master
and researcher Su Dong-Chen, founder of Essence of Evolution, from Taiwan and Japan. He studied
post-modern philosophy with Richard Shapiro, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and others
at New College of California, in San Francisco. Also at New College he was introduced to the field of
somatics and modern-dance by teachers Gary Soto and Theresa Dickenson. Later he studied Contact
Improv with Scott Wells and Keriac in San Francisco, as well as ballet at Orches Dance Space in
Oakland, CA. Currently Gabriel lives and works in Los Angeles, teaching Somatics, martial-arts, doing
bodywork with clients, and is in Emperor's College Master's program of Traditional Oriental Medicine
studying acupuncture and herbology.
In this creative process we'll learn to meet and recognize ourselves and others through the
exploration of embodiment. This experiential journey into the alive and changing territory of the body
is an inquiry. Through this we are led to an understanding of how mind is expressed through the body in
movement. Our body moves as our mind moves. Changes in movement qualities indicate that the mind
has shifted focus in the body. Conversely, when we direct the mind or attention to different areas of
the body and initiate movement from those areas, we change the quality of our movement. BMC is a
process of balancing, not a place of arrival. This balancing is based on an ongoing dialogue, and the
dialogue is based on experience.
The class begins with a somatic warm-up of experiential anatomy and developmental movement
principles. An important aspect of our journey is awakening to Sensation. We'll discover the
relationship between the smallest level of activity within the body and it's largest movements, aligning
the inner cellular with external expression of movement through space. We'll take our discoveries into
witnessing explorations, expressing our inner and outer fullness.
Body-Mind Centering (BMC) is an integrative approach to transformation through movement re-
education and hands-on repatterning. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study
based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental
principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. This study leads to an understanding of how the
mind is expressed through the body and the body through the mind
exploration of embodiment. This experiential journey into the alive and changing territory of the body
is an inquiry. Through this we are led to an understanding of how mind is expressed through the body in
movement. Our body moves as our mind moves. Changes in movement qualities indicate that the mind
has shifted focus in the body. Conversely, when we direct the mind or attention to different areas of
the body and initiate movement from those areas, we change the quality of our movement. BMC is a
process of balancing, not a place of arrival. This balancing is based on an ongoing dialogue, and the
dialogue is based on experience.
The class begins with a somatic warm-up of experiential anatomy and developmental movement
principles. An important aspect of our journey is awakening to Sensation. We'll discover the
relationship between the smallest level of activity within the body and it's largest movements, aligning
the inner cellular with external expression of movement through space. We'll take our discoveries into
witnessing explorations, expressing our inner and outer fullness.
Body-Mind Centering (BMC) is an integrative approach to transformation through movement re-
education and hands-on repatterning. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study
based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental
principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. This study leads to an understanding of how the
mind is expressed through the body and the body through the mind
Gabriel Orshan by Russel Mulock
SOMA fest
Gabriel Orshan by Ryojin Ono
