Dance as Healing is a 6-week dance program rooted in creative movement, contemporary, and improvisational dance practices co-designed by The Click and Eliza Owen-Smith (R-DMT).Dance as Healing supports participants in tethering their emotional, intellectual, energetic, and physical bodies to achieve a sense of calm and harmony in their day to day lives. Under the leadership of a movement therapist, Cassie Laskowski , we will explore how we can use movement to process and regulate emotion individually and in community, and we will ask: what tools can we embody to manage stress/anxiety and foster connection?

Please note: This class intends to bring therapeutic tools into a non-clinical, communal dance setting; the class is not group therapy.

Dates: 2- 6 week series, Tuesday | 6:30-8pm: Session 1 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21; Session 2 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16; NO CLASS 11/25

Cost: Thanks to the generosity of anonymous donors, the course is offered at no cost. If you would like to support The Click and more programming like this, there is the option to reserve your spot for a donation of your choosing.

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Please choose either free admission or donation, but not both, as this will limit others’ ability to register for class.

What is the legacy of the genre/form/style you are teaching?

This class is influenced by Dance/Movement Therapy and Contemoporary forms. Read about it’s Western European influence here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.22274

What background, training, and or relationship do you have with this style/technique/class subject?

Cassie Laskowski is a Registered Dance/movement Therapist (R-DMT) and dance artist currently working in the Boston and North Shore areas. Cassie received her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Dance/movement therapy in 2023. A mover since childhood, Cassie has always believed movement to be a powerful tool for self-expression and continues to seek ways to connect with community to share the healing experience of movement. Cassie keeps individuality, empathy, and exploration at the center of her practice.

Finish this statement: I am passionate about teaching this style because…

…everyone deserves to share the healing experience of movement.

How can students learn more about this offering?
Website: https://www.theclickboston.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.click.boston

Contact Information
Contact:
The Click
bostonclicknotclique@gmail.com

ABOUT THE CLICK:
Spearheaded in 2021, The Click is an experiment in organization, connection, and collaboration among a group of like-minded creative spirits living, making, teaching, and studying in the Greater Boston area. We are a group of dancers whose primary medium of physical expression is through contemporary forms but who dabble and play in many modes of creativity. Whether we spend our time sliding along the marley of a dance studio, weaving fibers, painting, or writing poetry, we are each deeply invested in answering the universally complex question that might play across your mind as well: who am I and what I am doing here?