Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Somatic Writing

  • Bodies, Communication, and Somatic Awareness

    Bodies, Communication, and Somatic Awareness By Jill Randall I have been a huge fan of Andrea Olsen for years. Reading her 2014 book The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making was a pivotal experience for me – really the first time I felt that a dancer wrote a book that…

  • Resource/Reading List: For a Somatics Course (Updated December 2023)

    Design by Claire Calalo Berry of Flourish and Frost From Blog Director Jill Randall: Each August, December and June, I love connecting with college professors as they prepare their syllabi and course materials. Today I want to share resources from the blog for a Somatics Course.   Somatic Writing Series In Spring 2021, nine dancers…

  • Somatic Writing Series: Cynthia Oliver, Nina Haft, and Jill Randall

    Design by Claire Calalo Berry of Flourish and Frost I am thrilled to run this new series on the blog. Nine dancers share ideas around somatic themes and how these themes play out in our lives right now – such as softening, allowing, activating, and slowing down to feel. Like "flash fiction writing," each writer…

  • Somatic Writing Series: Sima Belmar, Leah Cox, and Molly Rose-Williams

    Design by Claire Calalo Berry of Flourish and Frost I am thrilled to run this new series over the next month. Nine dancers will share ideas around somatic themes and how these themes play out in our lives right now – such as softening, allowing, activating, and slowing down to feel. Like "flash fiction writing,"…

  • Somatic Writing Series: Bhumi B. Patel, Andrea Olsen, and Elizebeth Randall Rains

    Design by Claire Calalo Berry of Flourish and Frost I am thrilled to run this new series over the next month. Nine dancers will share ideas around somatic themes and how these themes play out in our lives right now – such as softening, allowing, activating, and slowing down to feel. Like "flash fiction writing,"…