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Hilary teaching body alignment in Taiwan Body Alignment pdf Movement Coaching Private sessions Or call to arrange a class for your group. (510)601-9863   Modern Dance Technique · Breathe · Improvise · Express yourself through movement · Learn to trust your body while honoring its limitations · Let go of your thinking mind · Enjoy the pure pleasure of breathing and moving through space Hilary Bryan's strong and clear technique is based on harmonic internal connections, rather than on external forms, so that new movement is easier to learn and more personally meaningful. We explore movement's expressive subtleties so you can find your own interpretation and dance fully from your whole being. We use movement to create personal meaning and to connect with others in a self-paced, non-competitive environment. "Hilary's class makes my body feel balanced and whole." Body Alignment for dancers, actors, athletes, lovers (printable pdf flyer) · Stop re-injuring your ankle (knee, etc.) · Develop the core strength you need · Move naturally with ease and fluidity · Increase your expressive range Internationally acclaimed performer and Certified Movement Analyst Hilary Bryan teaches dynamic alignment based on Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals. Learn how the Patterns of Total Body Connectivity, basic to all human movement, can help you move efficiently without strain or wasted effort. Release the tension that keeps you from moving freely. Self-paced, non-competitive. "Challenging and intuitively gentle guidance."   SPEAK WITH THE FEET! This lab in grounding focuses on lower body alignment for strength and power. Develop your rotation & lower body support. ERGONOMICS LAB FOR PILATES TRAINERS Replace stressful movement patterns with more efficient, easeful ones. Improve your own body mechanics while working on clients and ensure your own long career FLOW & PARTNER ACROBATICS - Acrobats - Yogis - Dancers - Actors: Feeling STUCK in your movement? ~ Flow between your poses ~ Find your power through flow ~ Summon your inner strength ~ Expand your partnering skills Flow is the baseline of movement and the through line of performance. Flow connects the whole body and provides the internal support we need to move freely. We explore the concept of flow in water, wind and fire and apply our new experience of flow to partner acrobatics and personal movement style. [printable pdf]

(Reprinted from Open Exchange Magazine, January, 2000) Stretching into the New Millennium by Hilary Bryan, CMA, RMT Hilary Bryan is co-director of Frank and Bryan Dance, a modern dance company, and also of The Body at Work, a series of workplace wellness seminars in workstation setup and injury prevention. I am a working artist as well as a teacher, which means I am constantly choreographing, rehearsing, and performing.  I use my classes as a playground to experiment with new movement ideas and concepts that I am working with in my own dancing.  My students are always excited to see me perform, because they get to see movement on the stage that they have done themselves in class.  I am also a singer, forging a new medium of "singing dance" (dancing song), and I use my voice throughout my classes to direct and accompany the students.  I also work closely with live musicians who accompany class with a different eclectic collection of instruments every week.  The variety keeps me interested and alive. I believe that everyone can dance.  I have students in my dance classes who have never set foot in a studio, or who are returning to the studio after a long hiatus, together with my regular students.  My classes begin slowly with an internal focus, so that everyone experiences the work at their own level, and then we gently ease into full-bodied movement.  I know that people love to move -- even beginners.  I value and teach proper placement and alignment, but when we get to dancing, I think it is more important to feel the flow of the movement than to have the steps exactly right.  Very often the steps sort themselves out as the student feels the rhythm of the movement For those who want to focus on alignment and stretching, I created Unfolding Your Strength.  This class develops body awareness and movement efficiency and is based on my training in Laban / Bartenieff Movement Analysis and on my experience helping others to find deep structural support, ease of movement, and release of tension.  A number of my Unfolding students first came to my class when they were injured and have stayed even after their injury has healed. I think of injuries as opportunities to learn about they way we move.  Very often we injure ourselves in predictable ways because of our movement patterns or body mis-alignment.  If we replace potentially dangerous movement patterns with more efficient and less stressful ones, we can learn to prevent injury.  My goal is to give people an experience of ease in movement.

 

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