Dragons Dancing

Workshop Description

Olsen begins with qigong practice to clear stress, enhance energy, and open to new dimensions for 2025. McHose takes us into movement efficiency and creative imaginings. This workshop offers a great opening to the holidays of 2024 and possibilities for 2025, honoring the energy of the dragon for creative and healthful living.

About the Instructors

Andrea Olsen, dance artist, writer, educator is a Professor Emerita of Dance at Middlebury College, and a certified instructor of Holden QiGong and Embodyoga. She is author of a quartet of books on embodiment:  Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making with colleague Caryn McHose, and Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating, along with numerous articles and chapters in anthologies.  Recent projects include continuing the Body and Earth: Seven Web-Based Somatic Excursions film website created with Scotty Hardwig, Caryn McHose, and international guests (https://www.body-earth.org/), participating in the multi-award-winning film Matkalla: On the Journey by Scotty Hardwig, co-created with Eeva-Maria Mutka (https://anatomyzero.com/#/matkalla/), and performing/hosting “Dancing Your Age” events internationally.   Her work is influenced by long-time colleagues Janet Adler and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen; Dr. John M. Wilson’s philosophy of movement at the U. of Utah; and daily dancing, daily writing. She is an artist-participant in The Workroom Collaborative Cohort for 2024 at 33 Hawley in MA, USA. (https://andrea-olsen.com)

Caryn McHose is an Advanced Certified Rolfer™ and Rolf Movement Practitioner®. She has taught creative movement for people of all ages for over 50 years. Her experience includes teaching dance and experiential anatomy/kinesiology at Middlebury College and in workshops internationally. She collaborated with Andrea Olsen on the books Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, and The Place of Dance, a Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making. She co-founded the Resonant Kinesiology Training Program in Burlington, VT. Caryn is the co-author (with Kevin Frank) of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness (North Atlantic, 2006). She is also a Certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, a Certified Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Practitioner, and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist. Her work is influenced by her study of tonic function with Hubert Godard, developmental movement with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Continuum with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper. Other influences are the Somatic Experiencing approach to trauma healing, developed by Peter Levine, and her study of cranial/sacral and visceral techniques (https://resourcesinmovement.com/)

Host or Publisher Molly Rose-Williams