<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">June 6-8 - Women's Contact Improvisation<BR>
Lani Nahele (Lisa Schmidt) and Shakti Andrea Smith<BR>
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Join us as we enter the dance of Contact Improvisation with Women: For the safety of it, for the challenge of it. For the fact that we know each other's bodies as we know ourselves. For the "deliciousness" of women in community with each other. Being with our curves, our strength, and the delight of our empathic listening. We will practice lifting and carrying, using our strength with new ease. We'll work with trust, balance, and our willingness to give weight. This event will encourage taking leadership and initiative, as women and as dancers. Tuition/Room/Board: $250. To register, please contact Earthdance at 413-634-5678 or visit www.earthdance.net.<BR>
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Lani Nahele (Lisa Schmidt) was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1985-1992 and is now a teacher, performer and Certified Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering. She teaches throughout North and South Americas and Europe. She works with healing and the awareness of the physical, the intellectual and the spirit through movement. For the past fifteen years she has worked in the field of Improvisational Performance and has co-choreographed numerous evening-length duets. Some of her collaborators include: Olivier Besson, Helge Musial, Dieter Heitkamp, Johanna Walker, Frey Faust, David Hurwith, Eva Geueke, Gabriela Morales, and the Improvisational sextet "Playing Field"<BR>
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Shakti Andrea Smith is a dancer and bodyworker inspired by over 15 years of investigations of dance and stillness. She teaches Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Yoga, Dance Meditation, and Movement for Bodyworkers in the Boston area, at Earthdance, throughout New England and beyond. Other movement influences include Action Theater, Butoh, being in nature and other pathways to being more fully alive and present in this moment. <BR>
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