This dance class has been called Think Feel Dance in the past, but the class is about a river that flows through each of us. Please join us as we follow and strengthen the currents of our imagination to discover possibility and joyful creation in movement.
This class is for anyone. Music will enrich and support our motion and nudge our imagination forward, backward, sideways, and inside to our thinking, feeling, dancing bodies.
The class will guide you with a clear structure, much like the supportive banks of a river along which inspired action can sail.
Details:
Date: Oct 23rd 1-2pm
Location: Zoom
About the Instuctor:
Megan Walker Straight
I have been a faculty member teaching Dance in the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University for over 20 years. Before that time, I performed with many choreographers in New York City, most notably with the renown Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In 2013, I was named a Cunningham Fellow by the Merce Cunningham Trust and have restaged his dances in both NYC and Vancouver.
I hold a BA in Dance from the University of California, Berkeley and I later trained in the Dance Therapy Masters Program at the University of New York, Hunter College, as well as at the New York Helix Institute for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Healing.
In 2015, I began my association with the deeply inspiring Dance for PD®/ Mark Morris Dance Group in NYC, and was twice awarded their Stanley J Wertheimer Fellowship (2015-2018) for in depth study and training. I have been teaching dance for people living with Parkinson's and with other neurological challenges, as well as for healthy agers, ever since. My classes have occurred throughout the Lower Mainland and over Zoom with the Brain Wellness Program and Parkinson Society BC. Most recently I have been teaching in communities in Southern Oregon.