Exploring Postural Ease and Authentic Impulse through the spine
These 4 classes with Sita Mani will explore improving posture and accessing spontaneous and authentic physical impulses through playing with the head-spine- tail relationship via the Feldenkrais Method and Contact Improvisation.
Feldenkrais Method is an educational system that allows the body to move and function more efficiently and comfortably. Its goal is to re-educate the nervous system and improve physical awareness and motor ability.
Contact improvisation is an improvised system of movement “based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia..”- Steve Paxton
Dates:Tuesdays March 31, April 7,14,21
Time: 12 AM – 3 PM
Location: Lucid Body House ,230 Lexington Ave (btw 33 & 34 St)
Cost: $325 Early Bird : $ 295 (by Feb 24)
For registration please email sitamani70@gmail.com
SITA MANI is a graduate of the Actor’s Center Teacher Development Program .She is a founding faculty member of The Studio New York and is currently on faculty at Herbert Berghof Studio and a Guest Teacher at CRS Studio in New York.. She has been a guest teacher at The New School.Mark Morris Dance School,Scott Freeman Studio and The Feldenkrais Institute in New York.
Sita began her movement training early, studying Yoga and Tae Kwon Do as a child.She later studied Classical Ballet and Musical Theater Dance forms in Bombay and started her professional career on stage. She was Principal Dancer and Choreographer’s Assistant in The Shiamak Davar Dance Company in India from 1997-1990,primarily doing Musical Theatre , Music Videos and Teaching Dance.
In 1992 she completed The Certificate Program at the Alvin Ailey School in New York and spent ten years working with Dance and Physical Theater companies in New York, as well as with independent choreographers from India, Europe, South America, and the United States. She studied Acting at The Michael Howard Studio in New York and took up long term studies in new movement modalities, interning for several years with Fay Simpson in Lucid Body Work and in Alexander Technique with Jean McClelland. Sita is certified by Theater Of The Oppressed NYC as a Facilitator(Joker) for Theater For Social Change. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and a Licensed Massage Therapist .
Her unique, eclectic background has lead her to develop her own form of movement training which works towards giving performers a more refined self awareness,physical awareness,visceral authenticity and working process. Sita has worked at all levels of training, ranging from the Yale School of Drama to kindergartens in the slums of Mumbai. Sita is currently an Artist-in-residence at Herbert Berghof Studio.