BIO
As a teacher, I share my inquiry of what it is to be a thinking, feeling, moving subject in this world. I do that through setting up a dialogue with ourselves and our environment in which we are empowered to be our own experts. I specialise in teaching the application of somatic approaches to contemporary dance practices. I’m also interested in how this work can be applied wider society.
I am certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method® and the Body And Earth work developed by Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. I studied for two years at SNDO Amsterdam and have an MA in Dance Pedagogy. I made extensive studies of Authentic Movement, Movement Shiatsu, Body Mind Centering and experiential anatomy.
I have been dancing Contact Improvisation since 1991 and was part of the group of regular students who studied with Nancy Stark Smith throughout the 1990s while she was developing what eventually became known as the UnderScore.
Laterly, I have been studying Biotensegrity, a new paradigm of anatomy which is arising from within the medical world, and teaching classes exploring its embodiment.
I lived in Finland from 2001 to 2019. I moved to Vienna in Austria in 2019 where I currently live.
Entering a duet through light touch
Teacher: Malcolm
Pathway: Soft Somatic
We will take time to tune in to ourselves. Tuning to gravity and sensation. Observing where our attention goes and playing with where we can place it. We’ll then enter a duet through light touch and see what happens.
The Weber-Fechner effect describes how our sensitivity to sensation decreases as we exert more effort in what we do. By slowing things down and reducing effort through working initially with light touch the spectrum of sensations that we can play with increases.
The aim is to support our improvisational choice making and create a dependable ground that we can rely on (and return to if needed) as our dances open up and become more dynamic and reflexive.