Classes

Axis Syllabus Lab Class:
Dance from the Heartbeat-Breath Complex

I approach the body as one’s greatest teacher, and facilitate class with this principle at the core. In particular, I am interested in the relationship between the pumping of the heart and the wild waves of diaphragmatic breath. Accessing the anatomical relationship between the rhythms of the heart and diaphragm muscles, we can tune in to the wisdom of our own human-animal rhythm. I believe that this Anatomical Center* can help us honor ourselves and become resilient in our interaction to the environments around us. 

From this attunement, we will explore the multiple relationships present in the body including joint centration, spinal mechanics, and how to work within the structural parameters of our human form. Like the heart-diaphragm complex, we explore the multiple coordinations of the body. Working with improvisational scores, small choreographies  and other explorations, we find our individual and collective dance. 

DETAILS

4-5:30 pm most Sundays

April 23, 30
May 28

$20 drop-in 

Dance Home
522 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90291

The diaphragm and its associates, both nervous and muscular, reach into the deepest recesses of the individual… Like the equator, it is the dividing line of two great halves of being: the conscious and the unconscious, the voluntary and the involuntary, the skeletal and the visceral. Through a deeper study of the unconscious we unlock more of its mysteries.

-Mabel Todd, The Thinking Body