Expect to explore your full range of movement potential from stillness on the ground to an exhilarating dance experience.
Cost: $40 Regular Rate | $25 Working Artist/Student Rate
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What is the legacy of the genre/form/style you are teaching?
ABOUT GAGA: Gaga classes are predicated on a deep activation of the body and physical sensations. The instructions are deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation, and rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multi-sensory, physically challenging experience. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. The research of Gaga is in a continual process of evolution, and the classes vary and develop accordingly.
ABOUT FELDENKRAIS: Through guided attention and playful movements, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons engage your whole self to explore the dynamic relationships of how you move and hold yourself. Recreating the way young children learn new motor skills, these classes provide a safe environment to let go of habitual, unconscious, and unnecessary muscular work. Grounded in neuroscience, physics, martial arts, and psychology, the Feldenkrais Method® offers a direct and effective means to attain greater ease, comfort, and stability in all of your physical activities. A regular Feldenkrais practice is great for improving coordination and flexibility, decreasing anxiety and stress, refining performance in your favorite athletic or creative pursuits, as well as injury prevention and recovery.
What background, training, and or relationship do you have with this style/technique/class subject?
Ana is a certified Gaga teacher and shares classes with both professional dancers and people with little to no formal training. Ana trained with Boston Ballet’s pre-professional program for 13 years, while attending Boston Latin High School. She joined Ballet Austin II in 2008. After completing MASA Dance Journey on Kibbutz Ga’aton in 2010, she joined Kamea Dance Company in Be’er Sheva where she danced for three years, touring across Israel and internationally. As Gaga Movement’s International Project Manager, she initiates and supports artistic and educational programs across the globe for universities, dance conservatories, dance festivals, dance companies, non-profit organizations, and more.
Eve Boltax is a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner and musician based in Jamaica Plain. She has taught group Feldenkrais classes online, in living rooms, synagogues, churches, and yoga/dance studios. Her work has been described as “magical,” “bold,” “insightful,” “calming,” “steadfast,” and “amazing.” She also gives individual Functional Integration lessons in Jamaica Plain and Cambridge. She continues to perform around the region including with the Mount Auburn Cemetery Solstice and the Portland Symphony Orchestra.
Contact Information
Contact:
eve@feldenkraisjamaicaplain.com | 802-498-5753
