Member Spotlight

Dance First Memebr Insight from Melissa Michaels

2021-06-09T05:56:28-04:00June 9th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Melissa Michaels, founder of Golden Bridge! Integration and Emergence! This past weekend, a small group of Golden Bridge movers and shakers stepped onto the dance floor for the first time in 15 months. With both a well-honed orientation towards solitude and a longing for connection, we entered into a [...]

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Dance First Memorial Tribute to Anna Halprin courtesy of The Tamalpa Institute

2021-06-01T07:12:49-04:00June 1st, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Insight is a tribute to Anna Halprin contributed by The Tamalpa Institute. Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance and whose experiments inspired, challenged, and sometimes perplexed generations of dancers and audiences, died on Monday at her [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from 5Rhythms Dance, Dharma, and Meditation leader Lucia Horan!

2021-05-25T07:24:15-04:00May 25th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Insight is from 5Rhythms Dance, Dharma, and Meditation leader Lucia Horan. Grief Dancer: Resource & Renewal in the time of the Pandemic Many things have been learned during the time of the Pandemic. We have been asked to address the collective grief and come to terms with the fact that almost [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from Movement Medicine co-founder Ya’Acov Darling Khan!

2021-05-18T07:18:05-04:00May 18th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from global movement leader Ya'Acov Darling Khan, co-founder of Movement Medicine. Greetings dear dancers, My whole life has centered around the great unanswerable questions of our universe. The original iteration of this fascination was: 'If God created all this, what created God.' From the age of 5, I would [...]

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Dance First Member Spotlight on Lorca Simons, 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre Innovator and creator of LiveWire and WingSpan!

2021-05-11T08:21:15-04:00May 11th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from UK-based Lorca Simons, creator of the Live Wire & Wingspan interpretations of 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre. "I want to feel that we can touch each other through the screen towards a new kind of intimacy. Listening with the ear of the heart, seeing with the eye of [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from Alexis Mulhauser, founder of Nourish the Essence!

2021-05-04T04:18:53-04:00May 4th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Bay Area-based Alexis Mulhauser, Nia Technique, Self-Breema, and Yin Yoga facilitator and founder of Nourish the Essence. "Learning to Teach; Teaching to Learn" Bringing expression to the dancefloor during COVID. It never occurred to me a year and a half ago that I would find myself [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from Maneesha McClure, founder of Dance Alchemy!

2021-04-27T12:22:21-04:00April 27th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Sedona-based Maneesha McClure, founder of Dance Alchemy. Dear Dancers, In the mid-'60s, Gabrielle Roth arrived at Esalen and began teaching in Fritz Perls' gestalt workshops. Her teachings focused on getting a society of 'up in the head' people to open their bodies and resolve their repressed [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from Dr. Jamie Marich, founder of Dancing Mindfulness!

2021-04-22T08:07:55-04:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Dr. Jamie Marich, founder of Dancing Mindfulness "Dancing Through Troubled Times" When I sought out my own recovery from trauma-related disorders and addiction in my early twenties, one of the reasons that I was open to accessing the emotions needed for healing is that the arts (and [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from Jean Trewhella, founder of Movement Insights !

2021-04-15T07:06:13-04:00April 15th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Jean Trewhella, founder of Movement Insights.Dear dancers,I first experienced JourneyDance with Toni at the Wild Women's Retreat in 2016. I loved how JourneyDance blended the witness/mover modality with transformation and fun, ecstatic dance. Toni's teachings resonated with me in a deep and soulful manner, and I knew that [...]

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Dance First Member Insight from Adam Barley, founder of ZeroOne!

2021-04-07T10:36:53-04:00April 7th, 2021|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Adam Barley, UK-based founder of ZeroOne. Dear dancers, One of the things I’ve loved about this last year has been the increased amount of time I’ve spent on morning practices of one sort or another. That’s been true for many of us, hasn’t it? I’ve loved [...]

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