Dance as Healing is a 6-week dance program for all rooted in creative movement, contemporary, and improvisational dance practices co-designed by The Click and Eliza Owen-Smith (R-DMT). This series 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, 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?
Dates: July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12
Cost: FREE thanks to the generosity of anonymous donors
REGISTER HEREWhat is the legacy of the genre/form/style you are teaching?
Each class will be a structured 75min of movement, discussion and reflection. Time will be set aside at the beginning and end of each class for participants to ease into and out of the space. Please note: This class intends to bring therapeutic tools into a non-clinical, communal dance setting; the class is not group therapy.
What background, training, and or relationship do you have with this style/technique/class subject?
Eliza Owen-Smith is a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT) currently working in the Boston area. Eliza received her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Dance/Movement Therapy from Lesley University. Her movement background is in ballet, modern, and contemporary styles. In her DMT work, Eliza emphasizes the mind/body connection, the body’s innate ability for movement, and finding ways to explore movement without judgment from self or others.
Finish this statement: I am passionate about teaching this style because…
…everyone deserves to access movement as a powerful tool to process and reflect.
How can students learn more about this offering?
Website: https://www.theclickboston.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.click.boston
Contact Information
Contact:
Angelina Benitez
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?
