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Movement and Wellbeing

Movement practised for its effect on body and mind, taught with attention to breath and sensation.

19 entries across this branch

Within This Branch

  • Biodanza 1 entry

    Group movement to music built around felt experience and contact with the others in the room, devised in Chile in the 1960s.

  • Capoeira 1 entry

    An Afro-Brazilian art played between two people in a ring to live music, trading kicks, sweeps and acrobatic escapes without landing them.

  • Gyrokinesis 1 entry

    Circular, spiralling movement worked on a mat and a stool, the equipment-free counterpart to Gyrotonic.

  • Nia 3 entries

    A barefoot movement practice danced to music, drawing on dance, martial arts and bodywork.

  • Yoga 15 entries

    Practices drawn from yoga, worked through posture, breath or stillness.

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How Dancers Actually Learn: The Practice Methods That Work, and the Ones That Do Not

What the science of motor learning says about dance practice: what holds up, what is only studio folklore, and what to change in your next class.

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The Styles of Ballet in South Africa: A Dancer's Guide to the Methods and Syllabi

RAD, Cecchetti, DASA, Vaganova: what South Africa's ballet methods and syllabi are, how they differ, and how to choose the one that fits what you want.

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Why touring circuits are rethinking mid-size halls

Operators weigh economics against the rooms that built careers.

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The quiet rise of the producer-performer

More artists are owning the means of staging their own work.

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