Myth & Movement Arts

Welcome!

Winter Classes will begin in mid-January.  Please contact us to be put on the mailing list and to receive the class schedule: mythmovement@live.com  All classes will be held at First United Methodist Church at 14th and Spruce Streets in downtown Boulder.

 

August 26 & 27

Movement as Mythology:
Psyche on the Road to Love

An immersion in the Greek myth of Psyche & Eros, foundational studies in modern dance, glimpses of imaginal psychology, and more.  We will work experientially, with brief periods of talking, through movement exploration and study leading to group and individual movement statements.   The Psyche story is an ancient tale of love and loss, journey, trial and restoration, applicable on many levels to the life of the creative soul.  No prior myth & movement experience needed.

See all details:  http://mythmovearts.com/august/

This way to the woods…

Fairy Tale Forest Summer Camp 2011

At Fairy Tale Forest we fill the summer days with the joy and magic of dancing, singing, playing, painting, and crafting.   Live guitar and harp accompaniment by inspired musicians bring to our dancing and stories an atmosphere of serenity and enchantment.  Crafting and play in nature, with natural materials, in an open-ended schedule allow for an unhurried enjoyment of the season.   Programs for ages 3 to 11, on 25 beautiful acres in Fourmile Canyon.

Click here for complete Summer Camp info:

http://mythmovearts.com/fairy-tale-forest/

Myth & Movement Arts Training & Retreat, August 17-20 

Temple of All Dance Studio
On 25 acres in Fourmile Canyon

Held at a beautifully serene mountain setting, at the height of the summer, this retreat will provide an ideal opportunity for sinking and subliming into the poetic heart of the dancing body.  The Temple for All dance studio is set on 25 acres of forests, ponds, and stream, allowing us a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces for movement and symposia.  This retreat will be set to the tone of the ancient days when dance was the foundation of education in philosophy, poetry and religion and will include daily movement study and exploration, myth and poetry recitations in nature, collective ritual, reading, lecture, discussion, and more.  It will provide an immersion in the history and practice of expressive movement, useful to all levels of experience, from novice to professional.

Click here for complete details:

http://mythmovearts.com/training-retreat/

Homeschool Program & Weekly Classes (Now concluded for the season, please check back in the Fall)

Isadora Duncan Movement Technique Class

Ages 13 to adult, Tuesdays 4:50-6:20 pm (The We’re House, Arapahoe & 55th)

The legacy of American revolutionary and artist Isadora Duncan is a movement philosophy based on expression of the human soul.   Her techniques for helping dancers to achieve this vision are simple, profound and radical.  In this class we work on the foundations of the Duncan technique – moving from center, finding depth of body, feeling into the movement of nature and the life around us, and shaping our experience into physical expression.  Class involves a strengthening and deepening floor warm-up, barre exercise, thematic floor-crossing explorations, improvisations and choreography.  Open to dancers of all levels from beginners to advanced.   Feel free to write with any questions.

Please contact for class fees and location details. Sliding scale fees available.

(303) 918-6183 / mythmovement@live.com

Upcoming Workshops

April 16th, Springtime in Fairy Tale Forest:  A taste of the magic of our Waldorf-inspired summer camp, for children ages 5 to 12.  For ages 5-8: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm; for ages 9-12, 11:30 am-2:30 pm.  We will hear stories, play in the forest, make dances, write poems, sing, and make nature crafts.  On 25 enchanted acres in Fourmile Canyon. Fee: $35 before April 6, $40 after April 6.

April 23rd,  The Green Kingdom of Creation.

The depths of soul and body are awakening with the warming of the earth.  Worm, toad, mud, sap, spider, and all the life within and with out churns to the heating and in secret processes sends forth new life.   We require a period of inward investigation, cultivating gratitude and direction for the great outpouring of our creative lives coming to surprise us in the greening of the season.

From 9 am- 3pm, we will explore themes of deep growth, with inspiration from the mythology of Egypt, and alchemical ideas on organic transformation.  We will work on ourselves through movement immersion, improvisation in movement and sound, poetic experimentation, choreography, painting and crafting with natural materials.

No prior movement or mythology experience required.   Fee: $45 before April 15, $55 after April 15.

Kindly register early: mythmovement@live.com or (303) 918-6183.  Sliding scale fees negotiable.

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“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.” – Isadora Duncan, The Art of the Dance.