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Presenters On-Site
Andrea Olsen
Andrea Olsen is Professor of Dance at Middlebury College in the USA and author of a
triad of books on the body, including Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, Body stories:
A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, and The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing
and Dance Making (2014) in collaboration with Caryn McHose. Andrea performs and
teaches internationally and is a contributing editor for Contact Quarterly.
Angela Guerreiro
Angela Guerreiro, curator, producer, teacher, dancer and choreographer. Currently she
pursues the MA program of Dance and Movement Therapy at the SRH Hochshule in
Heidelberg. In 2011 she was mentioned ‘one of the last independent dance activists’ at
the yearbook of TANZ 2011. Currently she works on the film documentation of ‘The Live
Legacy Project: Correspondences between German Contemporary Dance and Judson
Dance Theater Movement’ funded by TANZFONDS ERBE. www.angelaguerreiro.de
Ania Witkowska
Ania Witkowska studied with Linda Hartley for the Integrative Bodywork and Movement
Therapy diploma and is an ISMETA registered therapist/educator. She runs a private
practice in Berlin and shares her understanding of baby development with parents and
Early years professionals internationally, both in person and via webinars and Skype
supervision.
Anka Sedlockova
Anna Sedlackova is Slovak choreographer and dance teacher, teaching in the Dance
Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2005 she received her
ArtD. degree in dance with the work Basic Neurological Patterns in the System Body ­
Mind Centering and Possibilities of the Application of a Dance education. She has graduated in Practitioner in 2013 in Germany. From 2004 she is a director of non­profit organization Babyfit, which focuses on somatic education in the field of developmental movement.
Angelica Kovacova
Angelika Kovacova is an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, graduated in 2010 in
Bratislava BMC program. With a background of dance pedagogy and art management she
established with her collegue Anka Sedlackova, Babyfit non­profit organization in 2004,
focusing on developmental movement education. She is interested in work with small
children in group situations as well as in individual sessions including children with special
needs of different kind. She lives with her family in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Anne Expert
Contact Improvisation dancer and teacher, BMC® practitioner (2007, Chiemsee) and teacher (2012, Paris) based in France, Lyon. She’s part of SOMA association since its creation
in 2006 and has been teaching in the French and German BMC programs. Her work is
fully grounded in the BMC® approach and combines performance projects, individual
practice and teaching in various settings (University, dance and theater schools, somatic
trainings…).
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Annick Pütz
Annick Pütz is dancer, choreographer dance teacher and BMC practitioner living in
Luxembourg. She made her BMC training at Soma in France. Early child development is a
common interest in her practitioner and artistic work.
Anouk Laurens
Anouk Laurens is an independent dance artist and shiatsu practitioner based in Brussels.
She leads, Visions, a research on poetic dance documentation since 2013 and
co-organises with Eva Maes Spectrum of the senses, a composition workshops that
articulates Body Mind Centering® and Tuning Scores from Lisa Nelson.
Antja Kennedy
Since 1983 freelance dance teacher, dancer, choreographer and movement analyst (CMA).
She is a co-founder of the Tanzfabrik Berlin and EUROLAB. She has taught at several
dance trainings and universities. Since 1990 she is a teacher and since 1995 Director of
EUROLAB Certificate Programs in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. 2010 she
published the book “Bewegtes Wissen”.
Baptiste Adrien
After training as an architect, Baptiste Andrien has moved into video and dance. He joined
the team in 2006 and works together with Florence Corin on publications and training
courses. For a number of years, he has also collaborated in the exploration of Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Score, researching, teaching and performing both in Belgium and abroad.
Betsy Devoghel
With a degree of physical education (KUL,1978), Betsy Devoghel has been familiar with
movement and movement pedagogy for years. After attending many courses in the field
of Eutonie and fascia therapy and obtaining a master’s degree in Perceptive Pedagogy at
UFP Porto in 2011, a doctoral research project about Leadership Presence is the sequel of
her search for the use of movement to guide people during fundamental change
processes. Currently, she is also teacher and coordinator at the Department of Perceptive
Pedagogy of the Fascia College Belgium.
Beverley Nolan
Beverley Nolan is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator based in
Cambridge, UK. She holds a Diploma from the Institute for Integrative Bodywork &
Movement Therapy and runs a private practice as well as facilitates group work. Beverley
is also a Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer with almost 30 years experience.
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Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
For over fifty years, as a movement artist, researcher, educator and therapist, Bonnie
Bainbridge Cohen has been working with movement, touch and the body-mind
relationship. An innovator and leader in developing the Body-Mind Centering® approach,
her work has influenced the fields of bodywork, movement, dance, yoga, body
psychotherapy, childhood education and many other body-mind disciplines. In 1973, she
founded The School for Body-Mind Centering®. She is the author of the book, Sensing,
Feeling and Action and currently has eight DVDs.
Camille Monson
Camille Monson is an MFA candidate in Theater and Dance at the University of Hawaii.
She is a dance teacher and choreographer with experience working with students of all
ages, in the US and in the UK, at the university level, as well as in elementary schools,
studios, and professional community settings. She is currently working as an assistant
for the Asia Pacific Dance Festival at the University of Hawaii and her research interests
include somatic practices, feminism, and dance education.
Caroline Kal
Caroline is working at a practice “de Onderneming” (the undertaking) where she is
researching with a steady group (also Phd‐) professionals from different disciplines to develop vocational skills through playing the vocational 4–D game. Further she is a designer
and teacher of developmental pedagogic instruments for schools and treating people with
different complex problems as potential entries for their present leadership and
communities. She is trans -disciplinary educated, worked as a human developmental
counselor based on daily life, being a ‐grand– mother and inspired by Jidduh
Krishnamurti, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Michael Tsjechov, Floor Basten, Peter Paul
Gerbrands, Diane Elliot and Gisela Rohmert.
Chloé Noble
Chloé Noble is an art therapist, graduated from the faculty of Medicine of Tours, France.
She trained at Tamalpa Institute, specialized in movement‐based expressive art therapy
where she worked with Anna and Daria Halprin. Her passion for self‐expression through
various artistic mediums led her to search on the transformative process that creative
expression brings in our lives. She works with dance, movement but also with drawing and
writing as an entrance door for self‐introspection and growth.
Claudia Cano Del Valle
Claudia Cano is a contemporary dancer, certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North
America as a practitioner–teacher, currently studying the Body Mind Movement program
and she’s a bachelor’s in Mathematics too. She’s performed in Mexico, Cuba and the U.S.
working for choreographers as Vivian Cruz, Pilar Urreta and Marcela Ponce (one of
Tránsitos Sutiles creative core’s director interested in scenic quest from Somatic Education). Claudia participated in the Feldenkrais Without Borders Project in Nicaragua with
children with special needs.
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Cynthia Stevens
Cynthia Stevens directs INSITU, specializing in site­specific and environmental
performances in public settings. Her award winning national and international productions
draw on 30 years exploring the interconnections of dance, music, ecology and Body Mind
Centering, and encompass community building inspired by activism in social and
environmental movements.
Dana Davison
Dana Davison is a Certified Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, Phase One DE faculty
members, and Registered Somatic Movement Therapists and Educators. Dana is a
certified Moving for Life instructor and BodyMind Dancing instructor with a background in
classical ballet, yoga, editing and Russian translation.
Dianne Woodruff
Dianne L. Woodruff, PhD, CMA is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist in Oakville,
Ontario. She teaches internationally and presents regularly at BMC conferences. Her
unique conditioning approach is 3­D WORKOUT™ available in videos and YouTube
segments. www.3dworkout.co.
Dulce Trejo
Philosopher, choreographer and Somatic practitioner, influenced by the peformative
dance that integrate process of hyper sensibility on the performer. Her choreographic
work creates somatic scenes to be experimented by the spectators, through an
attentive awareness of the littlest movements produced by our corporals systems and
their organization on prototypes of movement. Her participation on the Body-Mind
Centering Association European Conference, is supported by the ‘Prince Claus Fund’
as part of a larger project called: ‘Creative Core Tránsitos Sutiles’.
Edith Rudman
Edith Rudman works since 1981 as a teacher for German Literature and Language, Sports
and Health Training in Austria. She is a certified Practitioner of BMC(R) (2007, Chiemsee)
and Infant Developmental Movement Educator (2010, Bratislava).
Eleonora Parrello
Eleonora Parrello is a dancer and Somatic Movement Educator (Tuscania, Italy, 2012).
She is currently in training in the Practitioner Program run by Leben Nuova. She takes
active part in the Italian BMC® community and apply BMC® in a variety of educational
and artistic settings in Italy and in Belgium.
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Elisa Cotroneo
Elisa Cotroneo, RSME, RSMT, ISMETA Executive Director has a private practice in
Movement Education and Therapy in upstate New York which has included work with,
school districts, special education programs, and arts organizations. She has created
online Master’s courses focusing on creativity, imagination and experiential embodied
education and her Executive Consulting services support The Ida P Rolf Research
Foundation and The Fascia Research Congress.
Ellen Barlow
Ellen Barlow, was certified as a practitioner of Body­Mind Centering® in 1982 and as
a teacher in 1985. She came to BMC with an educational background in dance, yoga,
fitness and movement as a healing art and a teaching career as a movement educator.
Ellen felt strongly from the beginning of her studies at SBMC that this work should make a
contribution to the field of health and wellness. She is a founding member of the
Body­Mind Centering® Association (BMCA) and a past president of the International
Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). She has been studying
the GYROTONIC® method since 2002 and teaching since 2003. She maintains a private
practice in Washington D.C.
Ellen Grosse
Ellen Grosse first learnt about Body­Mind Centering as a young medical doctor, and she
trained to become a qualified BMC practitioner herself. Her focus in BMC has always been
on the possibilities of healing. She now works as a doctor in a hospital and as a BMC­
practitioner with patients and groups in her private practice in Berlin.
Eva Maes
Eva Maes studied dance at the Cunningham Dance Studio. Later influences in movement
include the work of Lisa Nelson and collaborations with Chantal Yzermans/Radical Low
and with Anouk Llaurens. She studied at the School for Body-Mind Centering® both in
Chiemsee and in Northampton, where she graduated in 2006 as a Practitioner.
Florence Corin
After architecture studies, in 1998, Florence Corin joined Contredanse where, in
collaboration with Patricia Kuypers and now with Baptiste Andrien, she has realized the
greater part of its works published. At the same time, Florence is developing her artistic
activities, principally in the area of dance and new technologies. Florence has created
several interactive shows as well as a number of installations.
Frederica Antonelli
Frederica Antonelli is a dancer and Somatic Movement Educator (Tuscania, Italy, 2012)
She is currently in training in the Practitioner Program run by Leben Nuova. She takes
active part in the Italian BMC® community and apply BMC® in a variety of educational
and artistic settings in Italy and in Belgium.
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Gloria Desideri
Gloria Desideri, BMC® Certified Teacher/Practitioner and Infant Developmental Movement
Educator, is also a practitioner of Kinetic AwarenessTM and Somatic Experiencing®. She
is the founder of Leben nuova, the only licensed organization in Italy for BMC® training
which she directs since 2006. Gloria specializes in working with children and young adults
with special needs and holds a private practice in Rome and Tuscania.
Helena Nicolao
Is a choreographer, performer and movement therapist. She likes to connect with
colleagues and is choreographing for stages and site specific. Her work is based on
contemporary dance, Improvisational Practice and Somatic Technics. She works in her
private Practice in Winterthur with Body-Mind Centering and Cranio-Sacral Therapy.
www.helena.nicolao.info www.koerperpraxis.
Ildiko Viczian
Ildiko Viczian is certified as Teacher of Body‐Mind Centering®, also practices Cranio‐
Sacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Kinetic Awareness and other healing modalities.
She is commissioned as Presenter of Centering Prayer and facilitates this Christian
Contemplative practice in dialog with other faiths. She has a background in Fine Arts,
Illustration and Design.
Jacques van Eijden
Jacques van Eijden is founder of the Somatic Movement Institute. He has worked for many
years as a dance educator, psychomotor- and somatic movement therapist and he directed the first European Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner Programmes. In his experiential
work of movement, body awareness and mindfulness are the key.
Jennifer Mascall
Jennifer Mascall, Artistic Director of Mascall Dance in Vancouver, Canada, explores the
potential of the human body moving in space and expands preconceived notions of the
discipline of contemporary dance. Body research, defiance of assumption,
interdisciplinary invention and influential mentorship are trademarks. Seminal influences:
Bainbridge Cohen, Putnam, Laban, Alexander, Cunningham, Paxton, T’ai Chi, New Music.
Jenny Mair
Jenny Mair currently resides in Hawaii, where she is pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in
Choreography and Performance at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Most recently Jenny
attended the A’ Cops Festival, in Poitiers, France and Florence Dance in Italy, where she
studied dance theory, choreographic processes workshops, as well as performing and
presenting her own work. Jenny is an international choreographer, collecting and pursuing
her artistry in teaching, performance, and choreography.
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Katy Dymoke
Katy Dymoke is a BMC® teacher and practitioner from Manchester. Katy has been
teaching BMC in England since 1997 She has presented at conferences, and has
published her writing on touch based working methodology and integrated dance. Katy is
completing a PhD on the impact of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and BMC.
Katy believes in the innate intelligence of the body, its application in therapeutic contexts
and research. As a professional dancer and director of Touchdown Dance Katy creates
dance theatre and film integrating blind and sighted dancers in a professional touring and
workshop company based in contact improvisation.
Kate Tarlow Morgan
Kate Tarlow Morgan, New York City-born choreographer, writer and Rhythms Teacher,
has been a certified BMC® teacher/practitioner since 1989. Kate is the editor-in-chief of
BMCA’s Currents, editorial consultant for The Lost & Found Poetics Chapbooks, co-editor
of Movement and Experience: A Body-Mind Centering Anthology, and author of the book
Circles and Boundaries. Kate’s recent performances include “Invisible Stories,” a dance
with 500 books and “An Evening with Monsieur Teste,” with text by Paul Valery.
Kristina Neirynck
Kristina Neirynck is a dancer and a dance teacher. She is CMA, SME and IDME and has
a master degree Physical Education. She has teached Laban based dance and later LMA
at the University Ghent. Next to this she held dance classes for children, high school
pupils and adults. The last years she is performing with the Ghent based dance company
Kabinet K.
Lauren Kearns
Lauren Kearns is a professional choreographer and director of The Kearns Dance Project.
She is also an Associate Professor of Dance at Elon University, a registered Yoga and
Pilates educator, a published scholar, and a recipient of numerous grants. Kearns presented at the 2014 BMC Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Laurence Chevalier
Contemporary dancer and choreographer. Studies of taoist art with chungliang al Huang,
founder of living tao (dance, taiji, poetry, philosophy, calligraphy). Studies of symbolic of
space and time with laura Sheleen. Trainer for special program “dance in school” from
France and developed also in Belgium. Introduce a research “chemin faisant, faiseur de
danse” to create events “dance in landscape” with partners of environment interested by
the links between somatic movement, art and psychoanalysis & Somatic movement
educator (BMC).
Lesley Craigie
Lesley has been at the forefront of the development of Dance Movement Therapy in
Scotland. Lesley has over 25years of experience working in Special Schools where she
developed a style of working called Creative Interaction before gaining registration as a
Dance Movement Therapist via the Grandparent route.
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Lian Wilson
Lian Wilson, RSME, RSMT Creative Director of Tamalpa UK. She facilitates workshops
through Kensington and Chelsea’s Mental Health Carers Support Network, and is
Research Assistant in Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health - Canterbury
Christ Church University and is assisting with the preparation of the forthcoming Oxford
Textbook of Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing. Lian was Assistant Director, on teaching
faculty and served as President of the Board of Directors for Tamalpa Institute in CA
between 2003-2008.
Linda Hartley
Linda has worked since 1977 as a somatic movement educator and transpersonal
psychotherapist. She is founding director of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and
Movement Therapy, running an ISMETA a
­ pproved training in the UK, Lithuania and Russia.
With an MA in Somatic Psychology, Linda is author of ‘Wisdom of the Body Moving’, and
other works.
Lindsay Gilmour
Lindsay is Assistant Professor of Dance at Ithaca College in New York. She received a
B.F.A. In Choreography from the University of Montana, a M.A. from Columbia University
focused on Tibetan Studies, and a M.F.A. in Choreography from Peck School of the Arts.
She studies Dynamic Embodiment with Martha Eddy.
Lissa Michalak
Lissa Michalak is a Certified Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, Phase One DE faculty
members, and Registered Somatic Movement Therapists and Educators. Lissa has
studied anatomy and movement for 25 years with a background in modern and Middle
Eastern dance, martial arts and Pilates She co-teach with Dana Davison Somatic Anatomy
courses in New York.
Louise Chardon
Louise Chardon has dedicated her life to dance and the study of the being in movement
for over 30 years. She first developed herself as a dancer in main Ballet and Contemporary
Companies and worked with independent choreographers before engaging in her own
creative process. Since about 10 years, she’s specialized in the deep sensitive abilities of
the being and how its subconscious expresses through movement. She mainly applies her
researches to her performative oeuvre and shares it through her pedagogy.
Marcella Ponce
Marcela Ponce Valadez (Mexico, 1979) Bachelor degree in Choreography and Feldenkrais
practitioner. A dancer for more than 15 years and founder of “Danza el Agua”, where she
explores different approaches to the scene. Currently, she researches the link between
the Feldenkrais method and the scene and its possible complementarity with BMC in
Transitos Sutiles. Her participation on the Body Mind Centering Association European
Conference is supported by the ‘Prince Claus Fund’ as part of a larger project called: ‘The
Creative Core_Tránsitos Sutiles’.
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Marchel Ruygrok
Marchel is a somatic architect and sculptor, founder of mama-architects. He designs
houses for and with individuals. He participates with the artist collective Billy Town The
Hague in various international exhibitions.
Mariko Tanabe
Mariko Tanabe ‐ RSME/T has performed her dances internationally for the past
twenty‐three years. Collaborations include: Toronto Dance Theatre, Steptext dance project
(Germany), Fabrication Danse, Montréal Danse and Benoit Lachambre. She teaches at
l’Université de Montréal à Québec and is a BMC® Certified Teacher and IDME. For twelve
years she danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Co. in NYC.
Moriah Moser
Moriah Moser is a dance therapist, artist and teacher living on the coast of Maine. Over
thirty‐five years ago, she developed and taught The Inner Dance, a series of workshops
integrating soma, spirit, and ancient wisdom practices. Moriah serves on the faculty of
Circles of Four, The Discipline of Authentic Movement, atraining in the lineage of Janet
Adler. Moriah receives students for therapy, classes and retreats at her studio in Maine.
Natalie Garrett Brown
Natalie Garrett Brown, is principal lecturer in dance at Coventry University, UK. She is
associate editor for the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and Vice Chair of Dance
HE. Natalie is also a founding member of enter & inhabit; collaborative site responsive
project and undertook her Somatic Movement Educators Training in Body­-Mind Centering
with Embody Move Association, UK. At the conference she will present a paper, co-written
paper with Amy Voris.
Noya Nachmany
Noya Nachmany is a Movement researcher and entrepreneur, BMC® Practitioner and
Dance-Movement Therapist. Her FibroMove® program is a Social Somatic Integration
Support program around Chronic Pain & Fibromyalgia. She a
​ lso regularly teaches her
own programs,​Visual Rhythms® and Somatic Pilates®​,​based on the BNPs. Since 2009
she ha​s ​been ​on the Board of the BMC® Association a
​ nd actively contributes​to manifest
a professional BMC® Community in Europe, in relation to the global ‘Social Somatic’
Community. Noya is the initiator and co-chair of the 2014 BMCA Estonia conference ​and
the 2015 BMCA conference in Ghent/Belgium. More info on www.inner-dance.nl.
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Odile Seitz-Walser
Odile Seitz is BMC Practitioner and Cranio­sacral Therapeut. She works in Berlin with
different choreographers, teaches dance and Body Mind Centering in various schools
and high schools (Berlin and Stockholm) and Tanzfestivals. She is one of the
co-founders of the collective Practicable. In 2010-2014 she was artistic director of a
company of teenagers in the Fabrik Potsdam. With Cranio and BMC she develops a work
with pregnant women and collaborates artistically and pedagogically with the
choreographer Annick Pütz about this theme.
Sandra Vincent
Movement and Voice Pedagogue, Sandra is Choreographer and Performer for Playsure
Company. Her experience in California, in Tamalpa Institute and then with Bonnie, has
been determinant for her researches in the field of creative processes.
www.playsurecompany.be
Sarah Menger
Sarah Menger is a Movement Researcher, Dancer, Choreographer and Body­-Mind
Centering® Practitioner. Her artistic work is based upon her long term practice of
Spontaneous Composition, Contact-Improvisation, Authentic Movement and various bodywork techniques. Sarah is teaching dance and movement research since 2000, besides
she is running the advanced training “Body-Mind­Centering® and Performance”
in Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Sonja Riket
Sonja Riket, a Belgian native, is a Somatic Movement Therapist®, Body‐Mind Centering®
and Feldenkrais® Teacher, Aquatic Therapist, with 50 years of worldwide experience in
movement/dance training, performance and teaching. In private practice with infants,
children and adults, on land and in water, she uses hands‐on healing and movement
therapy to help them find release, balance and integration. Sonja is a guest lecturer at SF
State University and teaches “Embodiment and Expression” to musicians and singers at
the San Francisco Community Music Center. www.heartofembodiment.net
Stephan Marchant
Stephan Marchant (1978) is the inspirer of Move2Create. Move2Create is a creative
practice of personal development where adults discover their own creativity through
dance and movement. By facilitating creative processes he links insights from talent
development to his passion for dance and movement. More info on
www.Move2Create.be
Tal Halevi
Tal Halevi was born in Jerusalem, Israel and lives in New York City. She was a member
of Rena Schoenfeld Dance Theater and performed with choreographer Nimrod Fried and
with New York Theater Ballet. Since 1990 she has been presenting her own choreography
and teaching movement born of anatomical investigation.
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Tamara Milla­-Vigo
Tamara Milla­Vigo is a dancer and practitioner of Body­Mind Centering®. A graduate of the
dance department of the University Paris 8. A contemporary dancer by profession and
training, in 2007 created the company Camin’Arts a project linking traditional dance and
improvisation.
Tasha Colbert
Tasha has been practicing as a dance movement psychotherapist since 2002 within the
NHS, education and private practice. She has a special interest in supporting recovery
from trauma and finding one’s life purpose. With extensive experience in supervision,
Tasha regularly supervises DMP’s and other arts therapists. She has lectured on the MA
Dance Movement Psychotherapy course at Derby University for several years, and
continues to teach internationally on Dance Movement Psychotherapy programmes.
Thomas Greil
Thomas Greil is Practitioner and Teacher of Body‐Mind Centering®. He is currently the
educational director of the Association SOMA, which is offering the BMC Cert. Program
in France since 2006, and codirecting the BMC Practitioner Program in Italy. He is offering
private sessions, group classes and parent‐baby groups. He works with babies, children
and adults especially with neurological and muscular/skeletal challenges, in the last years
especially with children in the autistic spectrum. He lives and works in Paris.
Thomas Kampe
Thomas Kampe is a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method. He has worked in the theatre‐
and dance‐ field for the last 30 years, and currently works as Senior Lecturer for Movement in the Department of Performing Arts at Bath Spa University. He writes about social
and critical dimensions of somatic‐informed performance practices, and completed his
Phd “The Art of Making Choices: The Feldenkrais Method as a Choreographic Resource”
in 2013.
Thorild Thornsohn
Master Trainer of THE GROOVE® and passionate about spreading THE GROOVE® &
creating a space where people get to DANCE & express themselves authentically. Torild
is a physiotherapist and have been working with the body-mind connection for the last
six years in forensic psychiatry and with at-risk boys in Denmark. She teaches GROOVE
classes in Denmark and leads GROOVE Facilitator Trainings in Europe.
Trude Cone
Trude Cone studied at The Julliard School in New York (VS) and worked as a dancer,
choreographer, and dance educator before becoming the artistic director of the School
for New Dance Development (SNDO) and later the director of the Dance Departments of
the Amsterdam School othe Arts. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Neuro
Physiological therapist. Cone developed ‘Moving Thought’.
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Ulrike Dillo
Ulrike Dillo has been a Physical Therapist for 20 years, a Body­-Mind Centering®
Practitioner since 2002 and Teacher since 2014. Her studies of the way the Body and Mind
work include Zen practice in its traditional forms of meditation ­including several years of
monastic training –, working with bodies and observing movement in physical therapy, as
well as a deep interest in the artistic process and personal expression.
Veronika Wiethaler
Veronika Wiethaler , German, studied music and movement education in Austria. She
initiated her BMC® training in 1987 with Bonnie in Amherst and graduated as a
practitioner in 90. Since then she applies BMC® to dance therapy training, teaching
recorder, to pelvic floor training and postural training. After the birth of her daughter in Italy
she began with the process to integrate herself in a new culture and language,
accomplishing also creation of work opportunities and publishing.
Victoria Pilar Gonzalez
Victoria Pilar Gonzalez is a 24 year old practicing love­warrior­dreamer. Her art is based in
performance for the integration of multiple art forms with life. She aspires to become a
certified BMC practitioner to investigate the relationship between movement and
knowledge from a philosophical standing point.
Wilma Vesseur
A Certified BMC® Teacher. Movement/Dance Educator and Performer. Wilma performs
and teaches throughout Europe and in the USA.
www.subsTanz.ch www.mvmoves.tumblr.com
Presenters On-Paper
Aude Cartoux
Aude Cartoux is a dance artist, movement educator and a Life Art Process practitioner.
She has practiced contemporary dance and improvisation since the age of eight and has
toured, since that age, with different companies in the field of Dance, Theater and
Performing Arts with: Anna Halprin, Christine Fricker, Yaels Davids, Sébastien Chollet,
Josette Baiz…Constantly questioning her practice, she studied Contact Improvisation and
Yoga to deepen her understanding of movement. She is living art to unfold, express,
experience sensitivity and search the bridge of interdisciplinary. Nowadays, she is developing her work by teaching and playing as an artist with different forms, people and
context in France, Belgium and U.S.A.
Therese Windels
Therese Windels (°1936) ontmoette voor het eerst Gerda Alexander in 1969. Na 13 jaar
gedoceerd te hebben aan het Hoger Instituut voor Lichamelijke opvoeding te Brussel,
begon zij datzelfde jaar aan een eutonieopleiding binnen een internationale groep van
bewegingsdeskundigen. Na haar verdere opleiding aan de G.A. SKolen in Denemarken
werd zij in 1973 in Kopenhagen tot G.A. eutoniste gediplomeerd. Een eerste eutoniecursus
in Vlaanderen, tijdens dezelfde zomer, werd het begin van een langzame, maar gestadige
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groei. Gehuwd in 1975 werd zij vanaf dan onophoudelijk bijgestaan door haar partner in
het uitwerken van een rijk cursusaanbod. In 1989 kon de vzw Vlaamse Eutonie School
opgericht worden. Sedertdien begeleidt Therese, samen met haar echtgenoot en een
team gevormde eutoniepedagogen, een 4-jarige opleiding. Door steeds verdere
persoonlijke bevraging en verdieping van de teamleden wordt de vorming gaandeweg
verfijnd en ontwikkeld. www.theresewindels.org
Kate Tarlow Morgan
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Susan Bauer
Susan Bauer (MFA, RSME/T) has taught in college and community settings for over
30 years, informed by her background in dance, Authentic Movement, and BodyMind
Centering®. She is the founder of Embodiment in Education, a professional development
training for dance / movement educators based on her curriculum in experiential anatomy
for teens and young adults. Guest faculty have included Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Deane
Juhan, and Caryn McHose. Susan is also a past Fulbright Scholar to Bali, Indonesia, and
is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist with a private practice in the
San Francisco Bay Area in California. Her recent publications on dance and somatics
include contributed chapters in the recent anthologies Embodied Lives (2014) and Dance,
Somatics, and Spiritualities (2015). www.susanbauer.com
Kim Sargent-Wishart
Kim Sargent-Wishart holds a BA with honours in Dance from Wesleyan University (USA),
and is a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®. Her current PhD research
explores the dynamics of creative activity through narratives of embryology and
art-making, based in somatics, improvisation, Tibetan Buddhism and dance/filmmaking.
Kim is based near Melbourne, Australia. www.kimsargentwishart.com
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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Sarah Menger
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Jenny Mair
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Sarah Menger
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Misty Tripoli
The Groove® - Misty Tripoli has over 25 years as a movement specialist and has become
one of the World’s most innovative and engaging teachers, choreographers, truth talkers
and mind/body specialists. She has been touted as one of the most creative, controversial
and influential teachers of our time. Her passion for truth, creativity and authenticity has
inspired a DANCE movement revolution of GROOVE communities across the globe.
www.TheWorldGROOVEMovement.com | www.MistyTripoli.com.
Kate Tarlow-Morgan
Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and
is a service mark of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission.
Chloe Noble
Chief-Editor ‘Currents’ -The BMCA Journal.
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Martha Eddy
Embodied Dynamic® - Dynamic Embodiment™ (DE) is Dr. Martha Eddy’s blend of
Body-Mind Centering® and Laban/Bartenieff Studies, created in 1990 after her
simultaneous teaching at the School for Body-Mind Centering and the Laban/Bartenieff
Institute of Movement Studies.
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Elisa Cotroneo
Executive Director -ISMETA ,International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy
Association.
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