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THINKING BODIES : MOVING MINDS
a symposium on the art of embodiment

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15th 2018

8.30 – 9.00am Check-in & Registration (Packing Room)

9.00 – 9.30am Welcome & Warm-up led by Jane Guthrie (Oratory)SATURDAY CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

Time Sheet Room Dorm One Oratory Industrial School
9.40 –11.10am

Paul Roberts
Somatic Attentiveness and Improvisation

Suze Smith
Power – Action – Flow
Jean Tally
Breath and Fluid in the Body and Land –
an integrated approach to moving and sounding through image and embodied
anatomy-ecology
Sue Mullane
Experiencing embodied research
methodology: Paying attention by fleshier means to the fleshier aspects of
knowing and understanding
11:10 – 11:30am Break: snacks, tea & coffee available in Packing Room
11.30am – 1pm Kate Hunter
Body of words:
The choreography of eavesdropping in ‘Earshot’

Christos Linou
Naked Peel: Twelve Hours
Later,
shedding intoxications through durational embodiment

Katrina Rank
Returning to Dance
Lucy Angell & Jane Guthrie

Working with Effort: Moods, movement and
meaning

1.00 – 2.15pm Lunch break (BYO)
2.15 –
3.45pm
Kim Dunphy
Embodiment as an outcome of dance movement therapy:
How can we assess change that
occurs through the therapeutic process?
Sarah Winter & Jo Woods (Artful
Awareness)

Gender Bender – An exploration of embodied gender
Virginia Woods
Mindfulness
and the Body
Myfanwy Hunter
Articulating the
Solo-Social Continuum: Exploring nuance in
music-dance collaboration
3.45 – 4.00pm Break: snacks, tea & coffee available in Packing Room
4.00 –
5.30pm
Richmond Heath
Movement, embodiment & flow through Neurogenic Tremors –
the Oldest Medicine on Earth
Vangelis Legakis

In A Mind’s Eye:
Embodied Unity

Angela Clarke & Camilla Maling
The Live Particle Way::
Somatics and creativity
Ranjit Bhagwandas
Embodied presence & dimensional
planes of movement

 

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16th 2018

8.30 – 9.00am Check-in & Registration (Packing Room)SUNDAY CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

Time Sheet Room Dorm One Oratory Industrial School
9.00 –
10.45am
Vangelis Legakis
Thinking Hearts: Feeling Minds
Jan McConnell
Te Kanikani – The Dance
Tracey Nicholson

How do we subtly incorporate Somatics
and Laban Movement Analysis into movement sessions with clients – Arriving at the essence of Movement
Therapy?

Gretel Taylor
Embodying extreme weather: How might
site-specific somatic practices offer insights in an era of climate change?
10.45 – 11.00am Break: snacks, tea & coffee available in Packing Room
11.00am – 12.50 Mary Rose Nichol
Dancing the Dream: Dreaming
the Dance
Jan Stevenson
From Couch to Floor: A
psychiatrist’s inclusion
of body movement and somatic practices in therapy
Virginia Woods
The brain and the
moving body in psychotherapy
Debora di Centa
The Scaffolding Workshop:
Contact Improvisation through an
LMA perspective
Zsuzsi Soboslay

Thawing the ‘frozen’ subject:
Working with tenderness and
clarity
around trauma

Ineke de Graaf & Camilla Maling

Being human in public – LIPS

12.50 – 2.15pm Lunch break (BYO)
2.15–
3.45pm
Gary Wohlman
The Art of Embodying Affirmations
Jaye Hayes
Embodying ecologies of rest: Restorative
Yoga and Somatic Meditation
Martin Hughes & Catherine Magill
Dancing the Shared Moment – intro to embodiment through Contact
Improvisation
Kim Sargent-Wishart
Embodying Vision: BMCsm and contemplative arts approaches to the art of seeing
3.45 – 4.00pm Break: snacks, tea & coffee available in Packing Room
4.00 –
4.15pm
Showing: Martin Hughes & Catherine
Magill (Oratory) 
Thinking body/Moving mind – a CI duet sharing time and space with
spoken principles and real time em/body reporting
4.15 –
5.30pm
Closing panel
& small group discussion (Oratory) 
Bringing it all together – Articulating the Art of Embodiment Heather Hill, moderator, with Kate Hunter, Angela Clarke, Camilla Maling, Sue Mullane, Paul Roberts
5.30 – 6.30pm Closing celebration: Drinks at Cam’s Kiosk sponsored by ISMETA