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July 2018

Movers & Shapers: Martha Eddy

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.67 –

Martha Eddy

 

Release Date: 7.31.18

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

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ABOUT MARTHA EDDY

Dr. Martha Eddy, RSMT, CMA, DEP is an author, researcher and professor who continues to teach and perform dance. She has held positions in either the Kinesiology or the Dance departments of Columbia, New York University, Princeton and San Francisco State University over the past 35 years. She earned her Masters in Applied Physiology and her doctorate in Movement Science from the Department of BioBehavioral Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is best known for her lectures on and research in overcoming the side-effects to cancer treatment through dance and exercise, perceptual-motor development, and embodied peace-making and for developing her own system of Somatic Education entitled Dynamic Embodiment – an ISMETA approved professional training in Somatic Movement Education and Therapy. She currently offers her curricula in the low-residency (intensive format) Masters programs at Montclair State University (greater NYC), University of North Carolina- Greensboro, and St Mary’s College (San Francisco Bay Area), as well as offering workshops in Europe and South America.

She has written chapters for numerous books and has published dozens of peer reviewed articles, as well as served on peer review panels in the areas of Dance Science, Dance Medicine, Movement Psychotherapy, Motor Learning, Movement Notation and Movement Analysis. She was the In 2017 recipient of the National Dance Education Organization’s Outstanding Leadership award.   The work she has developed with her non-profit organization Moving For Life has been featured on national radio and television in the USA extensively. She frequently invited internationally to deliver key note addresses. Her book Mindful Movement the Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action came out in 2016 and is available through Chicago University Press, Intellect Books and Amazon.

MORE ON MARTHA

Website: www.DrMarthaEddy.com

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

92nd Street Y

Rod Rogers

The Clark Center

Jill Williams

Laura Foreman

Art Bauman

Daniel Lewis

Hampshire College

Laban Movement Analysis 

Tara Stepenberg

Certified Movement Analyst

Robert Ellis Dunn

Irmgard Bartenieff

Irene Dowd

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Body-Mind Centering®

Five College Dance Department

LABAN/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies

Barbara Mettler

Warren Lamb and “Action Profiling”

Bates Method

Linda Lantieri

Thomas Hanna 

ISMETA

“Mindful Movement” by Dr. Martha Eddy

Emilie Conrad, Continuum Movement

BodyMind Dancing™

Moving for Life program

Micah Institute

Elaine Summers

Nancy Topf

Global Water Dances

Studio 55 C

Dynamic Embodiment™

Stephen Petronio

 

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Theme Music: Adam Crawley whose music can be found at djplie.com

This podcast episode is in partnership with JAM.  JAM is the home of dance entrepreneur Jessica Marino, providing artist management services and industry shopping. jamdancer.com, networking for dance and bringing ideas to the spotlight.

Open Performance at Movement Research (New York, NY)

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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 / 7:00pm
Movement Research at Edens Expressway
537 Broadway 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Suggested Donation: $3
More info:  www.movementresearch.org

A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a current or former Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, where we experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.

Moderator: Jasmine Hearn, with DanceAction, The Moving Architects, and Anh Vo

Liberty Hall Dance Festival featuring The Moving Architects (Union, NJ)

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Saturday, September 29, 2018 / 1:00-4:00pm

Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University
1003 Morris Avenue
Union, NJ 07083
Admission: $20.00 per adult, $15.00 per senior, $12.00 per child
Purchase Tickets: HERE

Buggé Ballet and Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University join forces for the second Liberty Hall Dance Festival! Spend an afternoon walking along the beautiful museum grounds enjoying site-specific professional dance performances inspired by moments in history.  Participating dance companies and choreographers include: Angel Kaba, Armada Dance Company, Bryce Dance Company, Buggé Ballet, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Cranford High School/Emily Donahue, Dance Visions NY, Heather Harrington/Academy for Performing Arts, The Kennedy Dancers Repertory Company, Luminarium Dance Company, MoustacheCat Dance, The Moving Architects, Schoen Movement Company, Undertow Dance, and Yamini Kalluri.

Movers & Shapers: Lauren Grant

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.66 –

photo: Amber Star Merkens

Lauren Grant

 

Release Date: 7.3.18

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

    • iTunes: Subscribe, Listen, Rate Us HERE

    • Stitcher: Subscribe and Listen HERE

    • Any Smartphone Podcast app: Subscribe and Listen

ABOUT LAUREN GRANT

Lauren Grant, honored with a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award for her career with the Mark Morris Dance Group, has danced with MMDG since 1996, appearing in over 60 of Morris’ works. In addition to staging Morris’ repertory on his company and at universities, Grant teaches ballet and modern technique for numerous professional dance companies and schools around the globe and is an adjunct faculty member at Montclair State University. Her writing has been published in the journal Dance Education in PracticeBallet ReviewDance Magazine, and InfiniteBody. She also serves as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts. Grant earned her MFA in Dance from MSU (where she was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Lambda Honor Society) and her BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is a recipient of the prestigious American Association of University Women Career Development Grant, the Sono Osato Scholarship for Graduate Studies, and the Caroline Newhouse Grant—all in support of her scholarly pursuits. Originally from Highland Park, IL, she lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband David Leventhal (former MMDG dancer and current Dance for PD® Program Director) and their son, born in 2012.

MORE ON LAUREN

Website:  MarkMorrisDanceGroup

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Chicago City Ballet

Marjorie Tallchief

Ginny Siano

Svetlova Dance Center

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

David Leventhal

“The Hard Nut”

White Oak Dance Project

“L’Allegro”

Kate Johnson

Dance for PD

“Capturing Grace”

Marjorie Mussman

Dance Education and Practice (Journal)

Sarabande

Montclair State University – Dance

 

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Theme Music: Adam Crawley whose music can be found at djplie.com

This podcast episode is in partnership with JAM.  JAM is the home of dance entrepreneur Jessica Marino, providing artist management services and industry shopping. jamdancer.com, networking for dance and bringing ideas to the spotlight.