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Thursday, February 19th, 2009Recently I completed a residency at Heritage Academy, a Jewish day school in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. I came to work at first with the Judaic staff on bringing movement into their curriculum. I ended up not only working with the staff, but also with the middle school students finding ways to embody (and thereby [...]
MODES OF MOVEMENT INTO TEFILLAH: part one / wordplay with Asher Yatzar
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Recently I completed a residency at Heritage Academy, a Jewish day school in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. I first came to work only with the Judaic staff on bringing movement into their curriculum. I ended up not only working with the staff, but also with the middle school students finding ways to embody (and thereby [...]
Biology and Dance in a High School Class: Embodying the Body
Thursday, December 25th, 2008Teachers: Jeanne Powers, Biology Teacher at PVPACHS, and Jodi Falk, Dance Director at PVPACHS
Authors: Jodi Falk and Jeanne Powers
October, 2008
Jeanne Powers, Biology teacher at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and Jodi Falk, Director of Dance at PVPACHS, created and implemented a short series of classes that used physical [...]
Morning Prayers in Movement: a Jewish Yoga Class
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
There are wonderful resources from Rabbis and other learned people in the Jewish tradition that speak to spirituality of the body (Nachman, Finkel, Michaelson) and the holiness of movement (Michaelson, Bloomfield, Nachman and students). There is an emerging field of Jewish yoga and creative dance (Bloomfield, Klotz, courses at Elat Chayyim, the dance program at [...]
The Ineffable: The Way of Knowing…or not
Monday, September 1st, 2008For me, dance is a pathway, a method, not unlike Buddhist meditation or other spiritual practices, for knowing oneself, the world, the connection between the two, and the … ineffable.
There are two instances I can recall at this moment which epitomize this perspective. One is when I first knew dance was my calling, and one, [...]