Awareness Perception Presence: Moving from the Fish Body
 
Malcolm has spent the last five-years developing a body of work called Awareness Perception Presence in which he combines the Feldenkrais Method, Experiential Anatomy and other specially-devised material to enter into a physical dialogue with ourselves and our environment. In this particular series, we'll explore the Fish Body (axial skeleton) taking some of Steve Paxton's Material For The Spine as our reference.

Each class begins with a guided exploration/lecture/dialogue in which the specific theme of the class is introduced through movement and associated anatomical details. Next part is a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class, which aims to clarify some aspects of the theme. The final part of the class is spent in self-directed exploration taking the reference movements as a starting point.

Since we work alone in these classes, it is possible to open these to anyone who wishes to attend. The set material is simply standing and walking so makes no special demands physically.


Malcolm Manning
I am a somatic movement researcher, educator and artist. I work as part-time senior lecturer in the dance department of the Theatre Academy of Finland (TEAK) and for the last four years have been involved in developing the Dance And Somatics one-year course at ISLO in Joensuu, Finland.  While in Helsinki I also work as a Feldenkrais practitioner. The rest of the time I tour internationally teaching. Sometime during the many years I have spent learning to move, I realised that I was in fact moving to learn, hence the name of my web site where you can get more information – www.movetolearn.com