The Anatomy of Center introduces the experiential anatomy dance work of Nancy Topf - Topf Technique and Dynamic Anatomy. In this course, we use basic anatomical imagery as an entryway into movement exploration and improvisation to support and empower your everyday movement and creative process. These classes which include guided stretching and self-regulated movement will energize and refresh you midweek. Have some drawing materials handy.

Zoom the class here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89439132999
Passcode: 262113

By donation, $5 suggested. Info in chat.

Melinda Buckwalter is a dance writer and movement researcher, and co-editor of Contact Quarterly, an artist-made and reader-supported nonprofit journal of dance and improvisation, and author of Composing While Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion (University of Wisconsin Press), which explores the improvisational strategies of twenty-six pioneering contemporary dance artists. Melinda has investigated and written about Nancy Topf’s work since the early 1990s, when Nancy’s work launched Melinda into a life study of dance improvisation and curiosity around making dances through it. Over the years Melinda has taught dance in a variety of settings, including anatomy and kinesiology for dancers at Wesleyan and Bates, and for the yoga teacher-training programs. Melinda is a bodyworker and holds an MFA in dance from Bennington College and an MA in dance anthropology from University of Roehampton, London. Currently she is a PhD in dance candidate at the Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, for which she is researching dance and how it creates relationship with the environment. Reach her at melinda.buckwalter at gmail.com.