Improvisational Contact Dance Retreat with Stuart Phillips @ Butopia: Retreat Center for Embodied Arts in Nature   in Freeland, Whidbey Island, WA March 29-31, Friday 7-9pm (open to drop-in $25)  Saturday 11-4pm, Sunday 11-4pm  Full Retreat: $125 until 3/9/13, $150 thereafter Exploring the Intuitional Body, Creating Relational Dance as Deep Personal Metaphor What Am I Doing? Where Am I Going? What Is Happening Now?  What Happens Next? Who...

SEA LEVEL: WilderDance 3-5 Day Intensive Residential Retreat on the LAND with Melinda Harrison of NatureMoves ~~Aug 23-27: SEA LEVEL: a WilderDance 3-5 Day Residential Retreat featuring Life Art Process & RSVP Dance Making Cycles Led by Melinda Harrison of NatureMoves in Boulder, CO Assisted by your host Maureen “momo” Freehill, MFA  More info: www.naturemoves.com  SEA LEVEL ~ 3-5 Day WilderDance Residential...

Monica Shumacher wrote this account of her experience at the 5Elements in the BODY Sanctuary Mini- Retreat at Butopia in March. Thanks to her for sharing an honest and in depth account of a sacred, enlivening & often challenging EMBODIED ART  process…: “I love dance. I love movement. I love the elements. I love a life lived in experiences.The body is empty. The body is nothing. You are space. All around you is space. One...

NEWS FLASH>>>This workshop will be informed and updated by the fresh transmission from my primary Kazuo Ohno Dance School lineage teacher Yoshito Ohno of Japan…..Just returned from the most comprehensive intensive training with him yet at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Deep and rapid integration of some of the most essential secrets for performance of all kinds for people of ANY level of experience, anyBODY. Embodied...