The Dance Lab: 3Bodies and Lights Out
3Bodies:COMPOSITION
IN PERSON Mondays
Held at The Karuna Center,
112 Camino de la Placita
Check the calendar to make sure class is happening
3Bodies:COMPOSITION
7p-8p MOUNTAIN TIME
Lights Out (FREEFORM DANCE)
8p-9p MOUNTAIN TIME
3Bodies:CONTINUUM
IN PERSON Thursdays
Held at The Karuna Center,
112 Camino de la Placita
6:30pm til 8:00pm
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The Dance Lab
3Bodies: Composition
focuses on organizing individual expression to tell a story, enhancing participants’ ability to convey narratives and emotions through freeform dance, journaling, drawing and collaboration. Enhancing sensory awareness and focus, participants connect with their inner landscapes and physical sensations in a unique way. Highlighting our connection to self, others and nature, fosters a greater appreciation for the natural world and our place within it.
This guided improvisational technique uses improv games, some partner/group exercises, and guided journeys for personal connection of mental/emotional stuff to our physicality.
3Bodies: Continuum
deepens the mind-body connection, promoting holistic wellness, flexibility, and self-awareness through a focus on range of motion, coordination, and imagination. Fostering a sense of play and discovery, this practice is expressive and stress-relieving.
Led by Nadine Lollino of MovementLab, Continuum invites people of all backgrounds to explore movement. Through guided improvisation, participants discover creative pathways to enhance their movement, expanding both physical and mental possibilities for pain-free, everyday motion.
The 40-minute guided session is followed by another 40 minutes of unguided time to explore and dance to a curated music playlist. Freeform dance helps participants build a stronger sense of agency in their bodies while moving to music encourages relaxation. Play opens up more freedom in our bodies than we might expect, acting as a moving meditation that mirrors the benefits of traditional meditation practices.
This playful, therapeutic approach to mind and body celebrates the joy of being whole—body, mind, and that of spirit/soul. It empowers participants to become more active agents in their health and well-being, supporting the ongoing journey of navigating stress, aging, and life’s challenges.
Creative Process:
Movement/dance
tones the organism and brings awareness of organism in space.\n
Elemental world:
relating to the elemental world helps us relate to our surroundings\n
Study of other plants and animals / natural world :
to understand our connectivity\n
Objects/props:
for tactile and visual comprehension
Music:
to connect to vibrational world in and around us, rhythm and flow to move energies in us and with each other\n
Creative Journaling:
freeform drawing or writing at the conclusion of class for processing and group circle for sharing\n
Self-massage self/care:
positive touch for a tactile connection to physical and energetic existence\n
Freeform dance:
moving meditation, moving from intuition, less doing more observing body in response to music, surroundings, mood/emotional state, others.
Suggested donation: $17 for class (Lights Out is free when you take class)
Lights Out – Freeform Dance
This freeform dance follows class, and is a no talking, no shoes, dimly lit room, allowing a more introspective and uninhibited safe space to explore your moving body in rhythm and play.
Benefits:
helps develop and refine the awareness of our own movement style
deepens our understanding of our anatomical and kinetic body
helps us learn how to interact and adapt in different environments dancing for fun and in performance
enhances our spatial relationship with others and the impact of those interactions
helps us learn how to heal physically and emotionally through movement and state of mind
moving from our intuitive self our thinking mind can take the role of observer
Suggested donation:
$17 for class (Lights Out is free when you take class)
Where do the donations for classes go?
Your monetary donation for class goes to help pay for rental of the space and any extra money brought in will be donated to Taos Land Trust. Thank you for your support and your offerings!
Click HERE for more information on the Taos Land Grant.
Check out some of my playlists on SoundCloud to get an idea….
