Simonetta’s Monday night improvisation session, influenced by the Feldenkrais Method, will investigate how the movement of the eyes can influence the orientation, coordination and balance of the whole body. Both solo and with a partner, you will practice seeing and looking while maintaining ‘soft eyes’ and cultivating readiness. With vision and kinaesthetic information often working together, the session will focus attention in the area of our brain dedicated to processing visual information, enhancing our movement and overall self. Soft eyes & playful readiness.
By observing and navigating the confluence of inputs from physical duets and visual information, you will enjoy playing with orientation and disorientation, allowing surprising dances to emerge.
The Feldenkrais Method is a somatic discipline which uses experiential learning to achieve a psycho-physical awareness of the whole self. Directing attention to internal sensation through exploratory sequences of movement, you will question habits and clarify choices in order to promote efficiency, freedom and new possibilities in your physical organization.
Access
Independent Dance is resident at Siobhan Davies Studios. To find out more about accessibility and the amenities available within the building please see here.
If you have any questions about the accessibility of our programme and would like to discuss any specific access requirements, please feel free to reach out to us via email info@independentdance.co.uk or by phone on 0207 091 9665, to speak directly to a member of the Independent Dance team. Alternatively, you may phone the main reception at Siobhan Davies Studios on 0207 091 9650.
During class, all participants are welcome to take breaks, observe, exit and enter the space as they wish. Lounge areas are available on the first and ground floors of the building. Yoga mats, blocks, cushions and ear defenders are available for use. We also welcome you being in contact if you would like to discuss the option of bringing your access support worker. Please speak to a member of the ID team if you require any assistance.
Cancellations and refunds
Prices for classes are kept very low and are subsidised by ID in order to support artists to attend. To keep admin manageable for our small team, we don’t offer refunds if you cancel or can’t attend a class, and we can’t transfer your booking to a different class/event. We hope this is understandable. If a class is cancelled or changed by ID however, we do offer refunds/transfers to everyone who has booked.
Simonetta Alessandri (she/her) is an Italian dance artist, and a somatic educator based in London. She is an internationally recognised teacher who applies the Feldenkrais Method in dance and movement training as well as performance making. She teaches at Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths University and London Contemporary Dance School. Her work is informed by more than 35 years of dancing, teaching and choreographing.
Her choreography has been for dance companies, student pieces, large-scale opera, improvised performance, site-specific and movement direction for theatre. She has been a guest teacher in Germany, Colombia, UK, Norway, Israel, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Taiwan and India. She obtained the Post Graduate Diploma at London Contemporary Dance School; she is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method, and she holds the Teacher Certificate of the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is one of the founders of CI @Goldsmiths.
The Feldenkrais Method® was developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) as a gentle & intricate embodied educational process concerned with self-discovery, wellbeing and improved function. It uses movement, sensation & reflective experience as organic learning modes.