What stories does our body tell when it moves? What connection is there between what we do and how we’re made?

These questions invite us to observe the relationship between the anatomy of form and the function of movement. Throughout human evolutionary history, the desire to move has shaped our bodies over time, and in turn, our physical structure continues to influence the way we move. The interplay between form and context gives rise to an intimate, never-ending dialogue, one that we can recognize and apply more accurately to foster a way of moving that both strengthens and preserves us.

In these classes, the Axis Syllabus guides the body’s movement through dance, fostering a dialogue between knowledge and experience, and is open to everyone who loves dance and movement—even those who are new to it.

I view the Axis Syllabus as a set of abstract concepts that take shape in the body through a process of embodying movement—a process that involves reflection, experience, sharing, analysis, and experimentation.

I think of these classes as open-ended opportunities to explore the body as a flexible system of communication and to create the conditions for sensing accurately, responding appropriately, and developing skills, alertness, adaptability, choice, and focus.

>>The proposals are for dance; they engage with the bodies present in the room and serve as starting points for exploration:
-Information as a process
-The relationship between form and function in relation to context
-Feeling as a virtuous form of embodied knowledge
-Spatial orientations inside and outside the skin
-Communication and readiness
-Recognizing and allowing in order to stop pretending or forcing
-Resistance, tensegrity, coordination
-Centers of movement (joints)
-Fascia, fascia, and more fascia
-Contacts and multidirectional movement
-Tone, timing, momentum
-Anatomy for movement and kinetic chains
-Biomechanical physics: weight, balance, dynamic compensations, gravitational force, inertia, kinetic energy, etc.

During the classes, we'll move through solo work, contact work, structured sequences, and improvisation.

Anyone can participate: people with a lot of experience, some experience, or very little experience.