"Virtual Dance with Dawn: Series 3" with Dawn Pratson (USA)
Movement: Dalcroze-inspired movement practice, grounding, alignment, rhythm and phrasing, somatics, creative movement, teaching applications
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"Virtual Dance with Dawn: Series 3 - Creative Movement and Somatics Applications"
A six-session short course with Dawn Pratson (USA)
This is the third series of a weekly, 80-minute long, Dalcroze-inspired movement class to develop and maintain functional, expressive and musical fitness. Principles of grounding, alignment, efficiency of movement, spatial intention, rhythm and phrasing, among other concepts, will be addressed through guided activities and improvisation.
New in Series 3: We will explore the meaning and practice of somatics, with a little history. Dawn will also share an activity each week which teachers can immediately apply in their classroom.
“We see light etched by shadows, feel joy emerging from sorrow; the present hovers between the past and the future. Between all these opposites, there is a sense of movement that renews the clarity of each experience.” Irmgard Bartenieff, with Dori Lewis, from Body Movement: Coping with the Environment.
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Dawn Pratson has an extensive background in music, dance and movement. She earned her Dalcroze license from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in 2004, where she was on faculty in the Dalcroze and preparatory programs for over 15 years. She has a BA in music and dance and a master’s degree in creative arts in therapy. Her primary instrument is the flute. Secondary instruments are voice and piano. She has a certificate in Orff-Schulwerk.
Dawn was the founding music specialist at the FACT – Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter –School in Philadelphia and taught there from 2005 to 20016; she was on the faculty of the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement summer training program from 2020-2024. Dawn is a founding member of the Dalcroze Society of America’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee.
This short course was originally given September 25-November 6, 2022.
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