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Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Thai Yoga Massage, and Massage Therapy
Upcoming Events in NYC and New
England:
 APRIL 11
@8:30pm INNER
BODY DANCING
ONGOING, Private lessons and classes
Authentic Movement Weekend, Concord, MA - APRIL 2009, Postponed
Former
Events
About Shakti
About
Authentic Movement
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PRIVATE LESSONS AND CLASSES
NYC Ongoing
Private lessons/sessions and classes for two or
more in:
Contact Improvisation
Authentic Movement
Thai Yoga Massage
Massage Therapy
CONTACT
SHAKTI to make appointments: 917-405-5877 / shaktismith@hotmail.com
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SATURDAY NIGHT APRIL 11 @8:30pm
INNER BODY DANCING
Kick off the Boogie at 8:30 with Shakti
We'll be
blending Meditation, Mudras, and Toning with Experiential Anatomy, Authentic
Movement, and other practices aiding us in surfing the landscape of our Inner
Bodies, gradually flowing into a space of Full On Dancing until 11:30. Class
is from 8:30-9:30.
This night
of BOOGIE BLISS will
bring us from Kirtan Based Grooves into World Dance Music, a few stops into
the Club Zone, and interminglings with Reggae, current danceable tunes, and
other Soulful, Heartfelt, and Ecstatic Quirkiness.
See Barefootboogie.org
for more details.
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SEPTEMBER 2009 - SUNDAY NIGHTS
CONTACT
IMPROVISATION
Classes with Shakti resume at
Movement Research.
See MovementResearch.org for
details.
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APRIL 2009 POSTPONED to 2010
Authentic
Movement Weekend Workshop
Saturday 10
5:30pm
Sunday 12 6pm
5th Annual Concord, MA
Weekend
Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord, MA.
Beginners welcome!!!
These weekend Authentic Movement workshops have been a very
special time to connect with oneself, with others, with Nature. A time to
slow down, breathe in deeply and explore. Shakti brings a lot of  experience to facilitating this workshop and beautifully sculpts
the time and space to honor your needs and the collective whole. We truly
hope you will join us, either for the first time or again.
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It is an opportunity to gather with others in a beautifully
weathered dance space in Concord,
as well as in the nearby woods--to dance deeply from within--whatever needs
to be expressed, to allow the layers to unfurl, to get to know ourselves
anew. We'll do some "pure" Authentic Movement, as well as play with
different types of witnessing, writing, and drawing scores. This will be a
spacious weekend with time to connect with Nature, and with others. There
will be breaks for meals, walks, rest....time to simply be.
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Come dance, let your body speak. Witness others, see other,
see your Self.
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Renew, Refresh, Reconnect. Unfurl, Unfold. Express. Be.
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We will move together over the weekend in the beautiful dance
studio at Emerson
Umbrella Center
for the Arts on the 2nd floor, 40
Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742.
EU is a 20-25 minute drive from Harvard
Square and is accessible via public
transportation on the Fitchburg
commuter rail. The studio is within walking distance of the Concord rail stop or we can pick you up.
Parking is available. The drive away from city life is itself an awakening.
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A price increase for 2009 is expected but a significant savings
will be offered for early registration. Please check back. All registrations
and full payments need to be received by March 28th. Because of contractual
agreements, there are
NO REFUNDS AFTER MARCH 28TH, so please plan carefully.
Registration is limited to 15 participants.
Click here to Download the Registration Form .
You will need Acrobat Reader to open the form. Please click here if you need the software.
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About Shakti:
Shakti was very active teaching in the Boston area from '95-01 and returns
annually from NYC for this event. For more information on Shakti, please
click here. For more information on the
workshop, please contact Shakti at 917-405-5877 / shaktismith@hotmail.com
or Wendy at 978-496-1397 / wolfberg@post.harvard.edu
Beginners welcome!
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FORMER EVENTS:
Authentic Movement - Maine
Dance New England,
near Poland Springs, ME
August 20-31, 2008
Shakti will be teaching Authentic
Movement for the first 4 days of this Summer camp for Adults and kids.
See http://www.dne.org/camp/2008/
for more details on this lucious Maine Lakeside camp--dance classes offered every day,
fantastic food, swimming, and nighttime dancing.
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CONTACT IMPROVISATION Soho, NYC
Movement Research
Wednesday Nights in December
Dec 5, 12, and 19 from 6:45-9:10pm
with Shakti Andrea Smith
December
5/12: Bill Young Studio--see www.Movementreseach.org for location, or
write Shaktismith@Hotmail.com
December 19: Cathy Weis
Studio, 537 Broadway (between Prince and Spring)
N/R to Prince, 6 to Spring, B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette
All levels of experience welcome. $13. Drop-Ins Welcome.
Wake up your Improviser, Soften your Body, Hone your Skills.
This class is an open level class, for beginners and experienced
practitioners alike. In a safe and grounded space we'll visit some
fundamental Contact skills and awareness, cultivating these also with enough
subtlety for the seasoned dancer of Contact.
Classes will include long, luscious warm-ups and plenty of dancing. Deepening
our connection with the form, we'll find greater ease in being upside down
and explore new possibilities for lifts and ledges. These explorations will
be supported by experiential anatomy--developing our structural understanding
of the body.
For more info. call Shakti@917-405-5877
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NYC, Boogie Bliss
Sat. December 8, 2007,
8:30-9:30 PM
Dancing From The Inside Out an Internal
Movement Class
followed by dance until 11:30 at the
Barefoot Boogie
See www.BarefootBoogie.org
for more details
Boogie-ing from the Inside
Out" with our beloved Shakti Smith 8:30-9:30 (In Shakti 's words We'll
start with meditation, moving into a fusion of flowing yoga, authentic
movement, and experiential anatomy, gradually coming out into a space of all
out dancing. Followed by DJ's Shakti and Jilsarah until 11:30pm
Cost : Sliding Scale $10-15
(less if you do a door shift)
Where: Insight Meditation
Center
28 W
27th Street, 10th Floor (Buzzer #27)
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Brooklyn, NY - Contact Improvisation
Friday Nights in Brooklyn!
at EMBORA
with Shakti Andrea Smith
5 Week Series
September 21-October 26
6:30-8:15pm (no class Oct.
5)
Free for Embora Members
$13 for Drop-Ins/$60 for
Series
Beginners Welcome
DESCRIPTION:
Wake up your Improviser,
Soften your Body, Hone your Skills. Come to Embora and Explore this
enlivening, playful, and creative dance form. Contact is a blend of Modern
Dance, Martial Arts, Creativity born in the moment, and plain ol' fun. We will
be cultivating skills and awareness as we meet out partners in
improvisational dances connected by rolling points of contact.
This class is an open level
class, for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
Classes will include long,
luscious warm-ups, skill work, and plenty of dancing. In a safe and grounded
space we'll be moving on different levels, explore possibilities for lifts
and ledges, being still, finding ease in being upside down, and moving
through space softly and solidly. These explorations will be supported by
experiential anatomy--developing our structural understanding of the body.
NEW TO CONTACT IMPROV?
It is practiced by dancers,
"non-dancers", computer programmers, artists, and folks young and
old around the world. It was born as a dance form, in 1972 at Oberlin College, by Steve Paxton, formerly of
Merce Cunningham company, and The Judson Church group. It has been
incorporated into the movement of many dance companies including Bill T
Jones/Arne Zane and Pilobolus.
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MAY 26, Barefoot
Boogie
NYC Sat. May 26, 8:30-11:30pm
The Boogie will start out with an hour long dance class
"Dancing
from the Inside Out"
We'll start with meditation, moving into a fusion of
flowing yoga, authentic movement, and experiential
anatomy, gradually coming out into a space of full on dancing.
Come
Celebrate Spring!
Followed
by DJ Shakti and guest TBA
until 11:30 pm
Cost : Sliding Scale $10-15 (less if you do a door shift)
Where: Insight Meditation Center
28 W 27th Street,
10th Floor (Buzzer #27)
Want more info?
http://www.barefootboogie.org
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AUGUST 2-5, 2007 Earthdance,
MA
Authentic Movement
Western Mass Moving Arts Festival
Shakti
teaching Authentic Movement: Deep Listening to Body and Nature
Woods
Dances--Internal Movement with the trees, and a witness
Western
Mass Moving Arts Festival
Contact
and Improvisations, Performances, Outdoor Dancing, Action Theatre, Authentic
Movement, Capoeira, and More!
Come
for 3 days, One Day, or a Half Day
Earthdance,
a dance retreat center in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts,
features two beautiful dance studios, farmhouse, comfortable dorm
accommodations, vegetarian cuisine, wood-stove sauna, spring-fed swimming
quarry, and 125 acres of magnificent hills.
www.earthdance.net
or 413 634-5678 for more info.
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MARCH, Contact
Improvisation
Soho,
NYC Starts Wednesday March 7th !!!
Wednesdays 6:45-9:15 PM
Cathy
Weis Studio, 537 Broadway (between Prince and Spring)
N/R
to Prince, 6 to Spring, B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette.
All
levels of experience welcome.
$13.
Drop-ins welcome
Wake up your Improviser, Soften your
Body, Hone your Skills.
This class is an open level class,
for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. In a safe and grounded
space we'll visit some fundamental Contact skills and awareness, cultivating
these also with enough subtlety for the seasoned dancer of Contact.
Classes will include long, luscious
warm-ups and plenty of dancing. Deepening our connection with the form, we'll
find greater ease in being upside down, explore new possibilities for lifts
and ledges to balance on, suspend upon, and fall/rise from. These
explorations will be supported by experiential anatomy--developing our
structural understanding of the body.
For
more information, go to Movement
Research or call Shakti at 917-405-5877 / shaktismith@hotmail.com
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Throughout 2006
Authentic Movement in the
Afternoon
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 PM
Class open to drop-in on starting dates.
Cost:
$80 per month. Four classes each month. First class of the month is open to
drop-ins, class is closed for the month after that. No class on holidays.
Please
pre-register: Call Shakti @ 917-405-5877. Send
payment to Shakti Smith, 770 Washington Ave, Apt #2,
Brooklyn, NY 11238. Thank you!
Come
join us in this lovely private studio for 4-8 weeks of rich inner dancing and
witnessing. Authentic Movement in the Afternoon: Moving From the Inside out.
For four Wednesdays in October and November we will explore the simple yet
profound practice of Authentic Movement. Embodied Meditation. In this
embodied meditation we try on the roles of mover and of witness following the
threads of our inner impulses. It is from these impulses that our movement
comes. It is from these impulses that our movement, our dance, comes. Moving
them, dancing them, brings into physical being the fabric of the stories of
our bodies.
Authentic
Movement is a meditative, expressive, creative and spiritual practice. It is
explored by some to deepen compassion, and acceptance, by artists to source
material, and by others simply for the joy of movement. This workshop is open
to all Yogis, movers, shakers, writers, artists, sculptors, musicians, and
folks who feel the call to dance.
LOCATION:
The Loft, buzzer #3, 725 Union Street in between 4th and 5th Avenue
Closest
to the N/R and also near to the Q/B and 2/3.
For
more information on Authentic Movement see below.
If
you have any questions, please contact Shakti 917-405-5877 / shaktismith@hotmail.com
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OCTOBER 13-15,
2006, Authentic Movement Outside
Earthdance, The Berkshires
Celebrating fall, and acknowledging winter's
inner pull- we bring this practice out to the Elements. What invitation does
the caress of the wind hold for you? What inspiration do you find in the
smell and feel of the Earth? We invite Nature to call us deeper within as we
explore the layers of this simple, yet profound practice. Our physical
container includes Earthdance's silky studios, the wooded landscapes and
nooks, and grassy open spaces. This workshop is open to all movers, shaker,
writers, visual artists, sculptors, musicians who feel the call to dance.
For more details and to register visit www.earthdance.net
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APRIL 22, 2006, Authentic Movement
Concord, MA
Workshop
3rd Annual Moving into Spring
This
will be a delicious day to sink in deeply, expand out fully and be with what
is there in movement and in stillness. With the trees holding us from just
outside the windows, we will explore the world of Authentic Movement
interspersed with yoga, meditation, and ritual.
We will move together in a lovely home in West Concord on
Saturday, April 22 from 10am to 6pm. West Concord is a 20-25 minute drive
from Harvard Square and is accessible via public transportation on the
Fitchburg commuter rail. The home is within walking distance of the West Concord rail stop or we can pick you up. Parking
is available. A light Saturday breakfast is provided 9-9:45am.
Registration
is limited; cost is $90 due April 17th.To hold your space, please call Wendy
at 978-496-1397. Also, please make the check payable to Shakti Smith and mail
to Dancing With Shakti, c/o 4 Rockwell Rd., Westford,
MA 01886.
There is a non-refundable $25 administration fee. Click Here to Download the
Registration Form .
Beginners welcome!
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April 21, 2006,
Authentic Movement
Cambridge, MA Friday afternoon 2-5pm
Casa Nia, 46 Porter Road, Cambridge, MA.
$35
before April 7th, $45 thereafter
Embodied
Meditation. Deep Listening with Your Body and Your Eyes. These
are a few ways to describe Authentic Movement. Come join us for an afternoon
of Moving and Witnessing. AM is a dance form that focuses on following the
threads of our inner impulses--it is from these impulses that our movement
comes. Moving them, dancing them, brings into physical being the fabric of
the stories of our bodies.
For more information, please visit or call Casa Nia 617-491-5144 or Shakti 917-405-5877
/ shaktismith@hotmail.com.
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January
2006, Wednesday nights, 6:45 to 9:30
Contact
Improvisation in Soho, NYC
Simone
Forti's studio, 537 Broadway (between Prince and Spring)
N/R to Prince, 6 to Spring,
B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette
All
levels of experience welcome. $13. Drop-ins welcome.
This month at the Movement Research Contact Improvisation class,
we'll be focusing on bringing our solo and duet movement into trio and larger
group dances. How to be aware of more than one partner at once? How to
take advantage of the shapes and contours, the support, the moving landscape
of more than one body? How to offer, with centered confidence and strength,
shelves and possibilities for Contact? Come join us for long luscious
warm-ups, connecting into skills and states that will support and open us,
towards dances with more than one person. We'll explore some group awareness
and Movement Improvisation to assist us in this as well. And then, yes, we'll
have abundant dance time. And oh, the possibilities that open up when we are
able to drape, leap onto, and extend from the support of more that one center
and set of limbs.
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September
thru November 2005 Brooklyn, NY
Friday 12-2pm, beginning
September 30th, weekly, at Shambhala Yoga
348 St. Marks Ave, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn,
NYC.
In
Shambhala's lovely space we will explore the simple yet profound practice of
Authentic Movement. Trying on the roles of mover and witness, we will follow
the threads of our inner impulses. It is from these impulses that our
movement comes. Moving them, dancing them, brings into physical being the
fabric of the stories of our bodies. Authentic Movement is a meditative,
expressive, creative and spiritual practice. It is explored by some to deepen
compassion and acceptance, by artists to source material, and by others
simply for the joy of movement. This workshop is open to all yogis, movers,
shakers, writers, visual artists, sculptors, and musicians who feel the call
to dance.
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Pictures from Shaktis class at the July 2005 Western Mass Moving Arts
Festival
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About Shakti:
Shakti Andrea Smith is a dancer and bodyworker practicing Massage Therapy/Thai
Bodywork and teaching Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, and yoga in New York City and New England.
Other influences include being in nature, and other pathways to being
more fully alive and present in this moment. Her current studies are
Acton Theatre, Body Mind Centering Anatomy, Dance Meditations, and
Calligraphy. Shakti has a degree in Transpersonal Psychology and has been
inhabiting the world with Authentic Movement since 1992.
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About Authentic Movement:
Authentic Movement is
Embodied
Meditation. Deep Listening with Your Body and Your Eyes. These are a few
ways to describe Authentic Movement. It is a movement form that
focuses on following the threads of our inner impulses. Moving them, allowing
them to emerge, brings into our consciousness the fabric of the stories
of our bodies. It is a simple form, with profound ripples. We'll try on both
roles of mover and witness, followed by writing, drawing, and/or speaking. No
dance experience is necessary.
It is
explored by some to deepen compassion, and acceptance, and by others simply
for the joy of movement. It is practiced by dancers, writers, and visual
artists to source material.
For more
information on Authentic Movement, please visit A Moving Journal at movingjournal.org,
the Authentic Movement Community at authenticmovementcommunity.org,
or The Authentic Movement Institute at authenticmovement-usa.com.
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For More
Information:
For more
information, please join the email list by contacting us at mail@dancingwithshakti.com.
Youre also welcome to contact the Concord
event organizer, Wendy, at 978-496-1397 / wolfberg@post.harvard.edu;
or contact Shakti in Brooklyn, NY at 917-405-5877 / shaktismith@hotmail.com.
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you! We hope you can join us!
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