Thomas Kampe – Performing The Moving Being: Feldenkrais & Dance Exploration
These classes will draw on The Feldenkrais Method®, in dialogue with dance & movement explorations, supporting participants find greater awareness, ease, freedom and new possibilities in movement choices and actions. These playful sessions allow for time to sense, witness and re-enact ourselves as living & moving beings. The classes will guide participants to experience their center, feeling for gravity & ground and expressive interaction with environment, with greater clarity and curiosity for change. 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.
Caroline Scott
Caroline’s classes explore how we embrace our habits whilst at the same time investigating new possibilities, not only in our movement but how we think, act and feel. The classes begin with a Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement, framed by a simple movement activity, for example shifting weight or turning. The classes will explore lessons (movement puzzles) which address the relationships between the spine and chest. Structured improvisations then allow this learning to feed into dancing and the ability to sense yourself on the ‘inside’, whilst being fully present in the performance space.
Classes are particularly relevant to anyone interested in diving deeply into sensing themselves where they are right now. The classes invite to go slowly and patiently to discover new qualities of moving, greater suppleness and stability through a simpler way of being. From here, the dancing self can emerge with playful curiosity. These classes may also be useful if you are facing challenges or limitations as a result of injury or the effects of ageing. Less is more.
This week of morning class forms part of the MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional programme, meaning that there are a reduced number of public places available. If this class is sold out, please join the waiting list to be notified if a place becomes available.
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.
Thomas Kampe (PhD) (he/him) “I have worked as a performer, artist, researcher and somatic educator across the globe for 40 years and was Professor of Somatic Performance & Education at Bath Spa University (UK) between 2012 & 2022. I initially trained in visual art & dance, and am a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method ® which forms a rich foundation for my teaching, arts practice and research. I am interested in critical somatic arts legacies, and my writings & performance works have been published internationally. I was editor of the Feldenkrais Research Journal Vol. 6 ‘Practices of Freedom: The Feldenkrais Method & Creativity’ in 2019, and recently co-edited JDSP Vol. 13.1 & 2 (2022): ‘Embodying Eco-Consciousness: Somatics, Aesthetic Practice and Social Action’.”
Caroline Scott (she/her) is a dance artist and Feldenkrais Practitioner based in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. She has been dancing and teaching for over 35 years. Finding pleasure and playfulness is central to her practice which has evolved through improvisational and somatic approaches to movement. She currently teaches weekly Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement Classes in person & online, alongside her 1:1 hands on practice in Hebden Bridge. She is part of the team who supports Open Practice for Wainsgate Dances at Wainsgate Chapel. In 2022 she collaborated with Sarah Mason on a short dance film set in her family home.
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.
