EVOLVING LABORATORIES
In our efforts to pursue experimental production and collaboration we facilitate social media based evolving laboratories.
WHAT: Each month we have a new dance related topic. Check in every Wednesday for a recommended resource or participate in our interactive projects!
WHY: The evolving laboratories serve as a way to connect with the global community to make, capture, and share art.
In our efforts to pursue experimental production and collaboration we facilitate social media based evolving laboratories.
WHAT: Each month we have a new dance related topic. Check in every Wednesday for a recommended resource or participate in our interactive projects!
WHY: The evolving laboratories serve as a way to connect with the global community to make, capture, and share art.
RESOURCES
February 2019 - DANCE HISTORY
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Evolving Laboratory 2 | #DancehistoryL2
RESOURCE 1 Title: Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done By Ana Janevski, Thomas J. Lax Comment: Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done includes newly commissioned essays that highlight the history of Judson Dance Theater and its legacy in our own time. Review: “Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done highlights the workshop's ongoing significance. The catalog charts the development of Judson, beginning with the workshops and classes led by Anna Halprin, Robert Ellis Dunn and James Waring, and exploring the influence of other figures working downtown such as Simone Forti and Andy Warhol, as well as venues for collective action like Judson Gallery and the Living Theatre. Lushly illustrated with film stills, photographic documentation, reproductions of sculptural objects, scores, music, poetry, architectural drawings and archival material, the publication celebrates the group's multidisciplinary and collaborative ethos as well as the range of its participants.” -Artbook Evolving Laboratory 2 | #DancehistoryL2
RESOURCE 2 Title: New German Dance Studies By Susan Manning, Lucia Ruprecht Comment: In an exquisite trans-Atlantic dialogue that demonstrates the complexity and multilayered history of German dance, American and European scholars and artists elaborate on definitive performers and choreography, focusing on three major thematic areas: Weimar culture and its afterlife, the German Democratic Republic, and recent conceptual trends in theater dance. Review: “Regardless of the areas within which we teach or practice, this book has something valuable to contribute. . . . A remarkable body of work in German dance over the past three centuries.” -Journal of Dance Education Evolving Laboratory 2 | #DancehistoryL2
RESOURCE 3 Title: Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age By Marc Raymond Strauss, Myron Howard Nadel Comment: With a focus on dance innovation from the late 19th century to the present, this history provides dance students with accessible information on the major contributors to the art. Review: "When the authors titled this book Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age, they were being quite literal. Central to the book are 220 search addresses. Useful and up-to-date for teaching dance history and choreography." -Marty Sprague, Journal of Dance Education |
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RESOURCE 4 Title: Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange By Clare Croft Comment: Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy. Review: "Smoothly written with strong, coherent narrative, Dancers as Diplomats confirms the importance of dance in US cultural exchange. Researching across Cold War and Post-9/11 ideologies of nation and cultural diplomacy, Croft demonstrates how the international exposure of American dance remains inextricably bound up with Washington-based political economies. An essential offering for anyone interested in cultural studies, dance history, or international affairs, Dancers as Diplomats proves that performance might always exceed governmental guidelines and intentions." -Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University |
March 2019 - INTERACTIVE LAB
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Evolving Laboratory 3 | #JumputRelayL3
INTERACTIVE LAB Dance brings us together! Let’s make global short dance film together via social media! 🌎💃🤳📳📲👉🎬 You just need 10 seconds to participate! 1. MAKE- 10 second video with same beginning and ending pose from our example video 2. SHOOT- the video with your phone vertically, no music needed 3. #JumpCutRelayL3 and share on social media 4. SEND it to us- Instagram direct message or Facebook message 5. Submissions due- Wednesday, March 28th! Check out our example HERE FINAL DANCE FILM HERE |
April 2019 - DANCE APPRECIATION
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Evolving Laboratory 4 | #AppreciationL4
RESOURCE 1 Title: Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive - Website Comment: On this website you can find digital archives and descriptions of dance organized by era, genre, artist, and themed playlists. Review: "In the Jacob's Pillow Dance Archives, a Magical Past and Present Unite" -The New York Times |
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RESOURCE 2 Title: Feedspot - Podcast and Blog Comment: Check out dance podcast and blog recommendations on Feedspot. Review: "Feedspot is a freemium online RSS feed reader with straightforward implementation and design, and a number of ways to share content that shows up in your feeds." -PC Mag |
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RESOURCE 3 Title: Dance Channel TV - Online Media Network Comment: This online media network provides video programming, covering numerous styles of dance through unique series, news content, interviews, performances, classes, documentaries and much more. Review: "DanceChannelTV.com isn't a haven for dance writing or reviews but rather filmed interviews, documentaries and performance videos, some of them acquired from videographers and distributors who want their work to be more widely seen, others shot by Serobian and his staff." -The LA Times |
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Evolving Laboratory 4 | #DanceAppreciationL4
RESOURCE 4 Title: ARTSEDGE: Dance Resources Comment: Check out this digital archive of dance resources organized by from collections, lesson plans, articles, and more. Review: "DaThe Kennedy Center's online resource, ARTSEDGE, also hosts a web series o arts integration resources that explain the 'what' and 'whys' of arts integration, providing examples of arts integration in practice and links to a range of resources." -Study International News |
May 2019 - Dance PODCASTS
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Evolving Laboratory 5 | #DancePodcastL5
RESOURCE 1 Title: Dance Place Radio Comment: Hear from dance artists such as Cynthia Oliver, Raja Feather Kelly, Sean Dorsey and more for a "post-show Q&A that you can listen to from your couch." Review: "If you like personal stories and like hearing about the creative process, I think this podcast will speak to you, regardless of how involved in dance you might be" -Apple Podcast Customer Review |
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RESOURCE 2 Title: movement research podcast Comment: Hear 1+ hour conversations with art makers unpacking the current cultural, political, and economic effects on society. Review: "The range of ideas and opinions presented, the range of topics covered, and the commitment to developing a community discourse make this an unparalleled 'must have'!!" -Apple Podcast Costumer Review |
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RESOURCE 3 Title: Conversations on Dance Comment: Hosted by Miami City Ballet Dancer Rebecca King Ferraro and former Miami City Ballet Dance Michael Sean Breeden. With each episode, they bring the audience an inside look into the world of professional dancers. They discuss ballet training, techniques, choreography, and conduct interviews with some of the ballet world's best and brightest. Review: "This podcast makes me feel like I'm on the inside of the dance world again...thanks for that!" -Apple Podcast Costumer Review |
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RESOURCE 4 Title: Sole Talk Comment: Hosted by The Working Dancer, Sole Talk interviews #WorkingDancers who share how they've created careers they love. Hear how they got started, their biggest projects, challenges, and businesses they've started. Review: "As always great interview and awesome work by the amazing and always helpful Shate!" -Apple Podcast Costumer Review |
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RESOURCE 5 Title: Pas de Chat Comment: Hosted by Premier Dance Network. Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in a dance studio at one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world? Or wondered what was going through Giselle's mind as she lifted her leg to her ear? There is a lot more to the politics of dance than lithe women wearing pointe shoes being hoisted into the air by men in tights. Listen in for a weekly conversation on all aspects of the professional dance world as Barry Kerollis travels the globe creating ballets, teaching future generations of dancers, and performing for audiences. Review: "...an informative and well thought out podcast on all things ballet and dance..." -Apple Podcast Costumer Review |
JUNE 2019 - DANCE JOURNALS
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Evolving Laboratory 6 | #DanceJournalL6
RESOURCE 1 Title: Dance Education in Practice (DEiP) Comment: Read "Tips for Success in Navigating a MAster's Degree in Dance" by our very own kNOwBOX dance team member Azaria Hogans. Review: "This journal provides a rich resource for dance educators. Each issue includes articles from teachers about what they do in the studio and classroom, which we hope will inspire you in your own practice." . |
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RESOURCE 2 Title: Dance Research Journal Comment: DRJ is a peer-reviewed premiere publication for dance scholarship of international reach includes articles. book reviews, and lists books received. Review: "Published articles address dance history, theory, politics, ethnography, and intersections with cultural, gender, critical race, and diasporic studies among others." |
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Evolving Laboratory 6 | #DanceJournalL6
RESOURCE 3 Title: Journal of Dance Education Comment: Read more from the USA NDEO in Journal of Dance Education, also known as JODE. This blind-reviewed publication presents the latest developments in dance education research and practice with the intent of assisting educators in their quest to remain current in the classroom. Review: We present both scholarly and practical articles relevant to various populations within the dance community, including public schools K-12, private schools, private studios, higher education, and community education. Topics within the journal include but are not limited to: training of dancers, curriculum, pedagogy, teaching methodology, best practices, standards, assessment, dance administration, collaboration, creativity, dance advocacy and social justice issues. |
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RESOURCE 4 Title: Choros International Dance Journal Comment: Whether you are interested in publishing or exploring dance research this international journal focuses on contemporary dance trends. Review: Choros International Dance Journal publishes original scholarly articles in English and/or Modern Greek, focusing on contemporary trends in dance as an art form, from praxis to theory. This includes choreography, performance and reception, education and theory, in all facets of dance. |
JULY 2019 - DANCE WARMUP
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Evolving Laboratory 7 | #DanceWarmUpL7
RESOURCE 1 Title: Boho Beautiful Comment: Summer is here! Boho Beautiful provides a great resources about yoga and fitness videos with peaceful nature background and great instructions. You can also see Juliana and Mark’s travel and vegan food story. Through #ProjectInspire, you can share your story about how your life has been changed with Boho Beautiful inspiration. Review: “Boho Beautiful is a travel yoga lifestyle brand that is creating positive content for your body, mind, and the earth. Since our launch we have grown to over 600K subscribers on Youtube and have inspired and been inspired by people all over the world. Our content is centered around Yoga , Travel, Fitness, Vegan Food, Conscious Living, and Guided Meditations” -Boho Beautiful Website |
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Evolving Laboratory 7 | #DanceWarmUpL7
RESOURCE 2 Title: Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, 2nd edition Comment: #Imagery #Movement #InformationToTransformation #Coordination #Alignment If you are interested in how those words can be translated into movement exercises, read this book! Dynamic visual images and detailed instructions will guide you to find the metal and physical connection. Review: “The Franklin Method training as outlined in this book is the most intelligent approach to learning about the workings of the body that I have ever attended. It is not just information but the experience of our design as we learn that is transforming.” -Tom McCook |
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Evolving Laboratory 7 | #DanceWarmUpL7
Resource 3 Title: My Pre-Warm Up Warm Up! Comment: Learn how Juliet Doherty, YAGP Junior Women's Division gold medalist, warms up before dance class each day. Review: Looking for new exercises to help your warm up for dance class? Discount Dance’s blog, Dance Life: Real Dancer’s. Real Stories. features a warm up by Juliet Doherty. |
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Evolving Laboratory 7 | #DanceWarmUpL7
Resource 4 Title: Lazy Dancer Tips Comment: Do you need free exercise videos? This YouTube channel shares exercises for warming up, toning, stretching and more from a professionally trained dancer. There is a free downloadable guide on their website! Review: “I believe that anyone, at anytime, can start ballet in a friendly, welcoming environment - like what you find at the Lazy Dancer Studio.” -Lazy Dancer Studio Co-Founder |
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Evolving Laboratory 7 | #DanceWarmUpL7
Resource 5 Title: The Best Way to Warm Up Before Dance Class Comment: Why is it important to warm up before a dance class? What are some exercises to help prepare you for class? Learn the answers from reading this post from the Radio City Rockettes! Review: “Two primary reasons for warming up are to reduce the risk of injury and gradually prepare your body for the activity to come”- Radio City Rockettes |
AUGUST 2019 - THEORY
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Evolving Laboratory 8 | #TheoryL8
Resource 1 Title: The Short Story of Modern Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, and Techniques Comment: Are you curious about modern art? This easy to understand book organizes the evolution of modern art by providing examples from each Modern Art movement. Review: “The Short Story of Modern Art will allow the reader to feel more at ease, more confident, and more educated about the world of art.” -New York Journal of Books |
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Resource 2 Title: Key Moments in Art Comment: Get the behind the scenes scoop on fifty pivotal works of art. Review: “Lets the reader into the art world in a disarmingly simple way … you don't have to be armed with anything more than curiosity" -Matthew Collings, British Art Critic |
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Resource 3 Title: Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between Comment: This book breaks down performance studies into three parts- audience, the body and place/space. At the end of each chapter you will find performance tasks to experiment with! Review: "Drawing on themes of performance, exchange and the body, it offers an accessible entry into the philosophy of spectatorship." -Book Review |
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Resource 4 Title: Essential Dramaturgy The Mindset and Skillset Comment: This book introduces the dramaturg as practice, skill set in production, dramaturgy to enhance audience experience. You can find ways to refine the process of defining, evaluating, and communicating that is essential to effective dramaturgical work. Review: "Theresa Lang's Essential Dramaturgy: The Mindset and Skillet offers a productive theoretical and methodological contribution to a growing literature on the field of dramaturgy." - Daniel Smith |
SEPTEMBER 2019 - CONTACT IMPROVISATION
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Evolving Laboratory 9 | #ContactImprovL9
Resource 1 Title: Freediving Dancer Comment: Sensing & Sharing! Freediving Dancer provides video resources of the body moving in water at different depths. This resource questions the power and influence of gravity when solo/multiple bodies contact in nature. Review: "...describes body movement research in water at different depths performed at the deepest pool in the world. The results were videos and images made fascinating by the water that, by offering different physical laws compared to the dance on the ground, guided the movements in a fluid and harmonious dance totally in contact with nature, with the awareness and control of one's physical limits and the acrobatic potential facilitated by the near absence of gravity. -By Marisa Cecchetti |
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Evolving Laboratory 9 | #ContactImprovL9
Resource 2 Title: Sensei Aikido Comment: If you want to explore more possibilities on how human bodies can share weight and use core connections, beyond a dance form, here is the website for you! On this website, you can see the stories of the most important teachers of Aikido and learn the rituals, meanings, different styles of Aikido. Review: "The human spirit has the wondrous capacity to extend a hundred million light years beyond the limits of space… Let us try to purify our minds in practice. If you can focus clearly only for an instant, in that moment you will know yourself with the mind of the Universe." -Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan |
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Evolving Laboratory 9 | #ContactImprovL9
Resource 3 Title: Contact Improv Website Comment: On this website, you can see the stories of the most important teachers of Aikido and learn the rituals, meanings, different styles of Aikido. On this website, you can see online contact improvisation related resources curated by Moti Zemelman. Review: This website includes locations of contact improv jams, teacher resources, photos, videos, articles, and more! |
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Resource 4 Title: Improvisación de Contacto Puebla Facebook Page Comment: On this Facebook page, you can watch 'contact improv' jams, open class schedules and how those practice the form in Puebla, Mexico. This non-profit community-organization facilitates a meeting space, where research, exchange and practice of Contact Improvisation in the city of Puebla and Las Cholulas are encouraged. Review: "Our work is based on promoting a strong sense of bonding, as well as growing the community of Puebla and honoring its distinctive characteristics." -By Improvisación de Contacto Puebla |
OCTOBER 2019 - SITE DANCE
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Evolving Laboratory 10 | #SiteDanceL10
Resource 1 Title: Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance A Handbook Comment: What is site-specific performance? How can one find site aesthetics and generate performance? This book introduces the diverse ways of approaching site specific creation process, movement generation with site, examples of interdisciplinary and international performances of site, and the reasons artists make site-specific performance. Review: "An invaluable resource for artists and teachers; combining insightful scholarship, creative exercises, and revealing accounts of practice. Perfect for those studying or making performance, within and beyond a range of practices including site-specific, immersive, walking and outdoor art practices." – Philip Stanier, University of Winchester, UK |
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Resource 2 Title: Eiko and Koma Website Comment: On this website, you can find Eiko and Koma´s bios, performance schedules, more than 200 videos of their duet projects, and workshop information. You can also find how Eiko has been creating works that aim to investigate the relationship of a fragile human body and the myriad intrinsic traits that are contained by a specific place. Review: "You can trace various influences running through the work of all artists. But more than most choreographers, Eiko & Koma seem to inhabit a singular artistic space, as if they had come into being fully formed, the creative equivalent of Athena springing from the head of Zeus, ready for war. They are creatures of the stage, not the battlefield. The out-of-time, fantastical worlds that this Japanese-American pair create through glacial movement and magical design elements linger in the mind’s eye long after each performance concludes." -Claudia La Rocco, New York Times |
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Resource 3 Title: EVENT-SPACE; Theatre architecture and the historical avant-garde Comment: In this book, you can find the evolution of stage space, the ideas of theatre architecture, a re-evaluation of the avant garde's non representational spaces, and architectural studies to establish a theory of performative architecture. Review: "In Event-Space, Hannah posits the concept of ‘event-space’ as a productive third term through with she can stage an encounter between performance and architecture true. Hanna traces out the ways in which the theatrical avant-garde undermined the inherited typology of the theatre and exposed architectural instability, and she uses this to mount a persuasive argument for complexity and dynamism in the design of performance space." -Andrew Filmer |
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Resource 4 Title: Scenography Expanded; An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design Comment: This book introduces contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. Learn why scenographic design has become a central consideration for performance makers today. Review: “[An] excellent and comprehensive collection [that's] suitable as an introduction for undergraduates and for developing ideas, histories and approaches for researchers.” – Paul Geary, University of Birmingham, UK |
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Resource 5 Title: Global Water Dances Comment: They connect and support a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance. Review: “Freshwater is the thread that connects everyone and everything on planet Earth. Rivers, streams, lakes and groundwater are all impacted by how we live on the land. Your efforts are reminding people of the importance of managing our water resources and uniting communities to take action for safe, clean water.” – The Nature Conservancy |
NOVEMBER 2019 - DANCE Film
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Evolving Laboratory 11 | #DanceFilmL11
Resource 1 Title: Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen Comment: This book is an overview of the video dance process. In this book you fill find a step-by-step guide for storyboard creation, writing about the filming location, camera/ mobile usage for filming, choreographing for the screen, post production preparation, shooting and editing. You can find the technical and creative point of view of the video dance-making process. Review: “Making Video Dance is indispensable reading for anyone interested in broadening their perception of what screendance is and how to make it, from one of the most innovative filmmakers in the field. As you read this book, beed the words of Master Yoda, ‘You must unlearn what you have learned,’ and it will forever change your approach to shooting and editing dance.” -Ben Estabrook, Director and Lecture, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley |
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Resource 2 Title: Dance Films Association Comment: On this website, you can find screenings/events of dance film festivals, career development information for dance film artists, how to raise money for your project, connect to the global dance film community through membership, and ways of fostering dance films for new audience. Review: “Dance Films Association was founded by Susan Braun in 1956 and incorporated in 1959 as a clearinghouse for the distribution of films on dance, from experimental work to instructional films and documentaries. As of 1998, DFA began offering Post-Production Grants and Fiscal Sponsorship. Alongside an archive film library of more than 500 dance film works, it maintains a database of distributors and dance film/videos. Its constituency includes dance and film artists, academics and critics, as well as students and established professionals.” -DFA website |
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Resource 3 Title: Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre Comment: What does a digital media/projection designer do and what is their creative process? This book illustrates the practical and theoretical approaches’ of digital media and projection in live performance. This book provides the current technologies and technique standards and expectations for digital media/projection design. You can find the information about rehearsing with digital media, working with actors and directors, lighting, set, sound, costumes and props etc. Review: "...essential aspects of what media designers do and need to know about the fundamentals of digital media, projection technology, and the role of the media designer within theatrical collaboration." - Alex Oliszewski |
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Resource 4 Title: VIDEODANÇA+ Comment: On this page, you can find international films that shows the diverse relationships between dance and the moving image. Review: “VIDEODANÇA+ is a unifying media that investigates the various relationships between dance and moving image. The survey is a mapping of experiences transitioning between film, video, dance, new media and internet.” -VIDEODANÇA+ |
DECEMBER 2019 - SOMATICS
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Resource 1 Title: Embodied Philosophy Comment: On this website, you can register for on-line embodied philosophy classes, find diverse articles (daily practices that help levels of creativity, happiness, health increase), listen to over 99 different podcasts (healing, yoga, anxiety, depression, stress and moral malaise, anatomy), and watch videos (mind body therapy, hinduism, discourse, and contemplative science). You can also submit your religious/spiritual practices and related articles for their online educational platform (Monthly on-line journal). This on-line resource will empower your mentally and physically! Review: "In a cultural climate exhibiting profound levels of anxiety and depression, stress and alienation, apathy and moral malaise, Embodied Philosophy recognizes the need for what we call embodied philosophical living. Embodied philosophy is not philosophy of the intellect alone, but is an integrated, non-dualistic living wisdom. It is a decision to live with mindfulness, insight, attention and intention – one day at a time. We seek to prescribe practices, activities, and modes of living that actualize liberating patterns of thought and behavior. These new patterns break us out of the habits that continuously cause us pain and suffering and reorient our lives in empowering ways." -Embodied Philosophy Team |
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Resource 2 Title: Dance Science Approved Comment: This blog covers dance science approved practices, information over the anatomy and physiology pertaining to dancers, research, injury prevention tips, nutrition, analysis of certain movements, fascia, neuroplasticity, development, teaching kids dance science and much more! Review: "Your passion for understanding the miracle of human movement is welcome and infectious!" -Isaac Chilton |
