Welcome

The Center for Dance, Movement and Somatic Learning is an incubator for creativity, research, education, performance and community connections. It operates as an independent center at Stony Brook University in the College of Arts and Sciences and houses the Dance Program, Dance Minor and the newly proposed Minor in Somatics at the university. The Center’s vision encompasses a drive to develop heightened interdisciplinary thinking and action, developed through the study of dance and movement arts, applied through art-making, innovation and performance of all kinds, and primed to collaborate with a wide range of academic disciplines and community interests.

It is the purpose of the Center to offer expansive vision for the fields of dance, movement and somatics. We will examine and demonstrate how the knowledge and principles represented in dance and the movement arts are poised for meeting the needs of the future. In addition to art-making we seek to uncover how the body’s interconnectivity will lead us to new discussions and collaborations with health science, technology, business, engineering, industry, community relations, cultural studies, and design. We are confident that the examination and dynamic interplay of intention, thought and action can lead us to more productive, inventive, interconnected and purposeful lives through the practice of heightened body/mind connections.

Summit, Friday, March 16

Public Festival, Saturday, March 17

The Body is the New Classroom

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/dance/research/festival.html

On Friday, March 16, 2012 from 10am-6pm, The Festival of the Moving Body will host a Summit of invited-only experts, modeled after TED Talks. Our goal is to listen to one another in order to construct unknown territories for educating a new generation of healthy, creative, productive and imaginative citizens. Many consider dance and the movement arts to be closely aligned to medicine, music and architecture and we plan to have representatives from these and many other fields examine how we work together for the greater good. The opportunity to engage our minds and imaginations across disciplines would be the kind of academic and artistic feast that could inspire many.

The general public is invited to the Festival of the Moving Body on March 17, 2012 from 10am-6pm at the Charles B Wang Center on the campus of Stony Brook University. The festival will examine the interdisciplinary nature of dance, movement and somatics. Our focus is to connect the dynamic relationships of performance, creativity, health, recovery and well-being through examples from some of the best experts around the country. We will include performance, film, media, installations, workshops, panels and lectures throughout the Wang Center. We plan to offer a stunning, strong consortium in order to promote the value and significance....live and through action... of our incredible fields as they contribute on diverse and interdisciplinary arenas. Admission to the festival will be open to the general public on March 17, through a modest fee of $15 per person for the full day through early registration; and $20. per person at the door. Online registration will begin in February 2012. Please check back for further information.

Photo by Elizabeth Silver

Upcoming

Winter Community Classes

Begin in January!

click on "Community" menu

then to "Outreach"

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Provost's Lecture

"Animation: "Embodied Minds

or Mindful Bodies?

Dr. Maxine Sheets Johnstone

Wed, March 14, 2012, 4pm

Charles B Wang Theatre

Stony Brook University

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Festival of the Moving Body

March 16, 17, 2012

Charles B Wang Center

Stony Brook Campus

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