Tag: bartenieff fundamentals

When I teach Bartenieff Fundamentals, we begin on the floor, eyes closed. A meditation becomes improvisation. Each cue builds from anatomical inevitability—a kinetic chain. The invitation is to sense and flow, not to arrive, copy, or perform. Inevitably, someone lifts their head to look around—abandoning comfort and breath in favor of sight.  Even in stillness […]

“I think it’s nice to start class with a moment of calmness,” says Nol Simonse, of his open adult modern class at Alonzo King LINES Dance Center in San Francisco. “People have so much stress in their everyday lives. They sometimes carry that stress in their jaw or throat or neck.” A short meditation in […]