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.

Provost's Lecturer: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

"Animation: Embodied Minds or Mindful Bodies? "

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

4pm at the Charles B Wang Center

Stony Brook University

http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/provlec.shtml#maxine

Summit, Friday, March 16, 2012

Public Festival, Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 10am-4:30pm

Open to All: Ages 15 and Up

The Body is the New Classroom

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

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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