Kinetic Awareness^® is a non-invasive way for you to discover and develop  
  your unique and full range of healthy and sustainable movement.
  The Kinetic Awareness^®Center is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation dedicated to 
  research, education, and development in the kinetic arts and sciences.

   Board of Directors: Elaine Summers†(founder), Charles Rosenberg (President), Michelle Berne (Vice President), Meg Chang, Ph.D (Secretary, Treasurer),
     Nina D'Abbracci, Pearl Bowser†, Frances Becker, Robin J. Powell, Ph.D, , Thomas Körtvélyessy, Jan Locketz
 

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Fall 2020 Online classes available! Dr. Jill Green, MCKA (photo left) Kinetic Awareness® The Ball Work® - every Saturday at 11.00-12.15 EST* $12  Nina D'Abbracci, MCKA (photo right) Yoga/Stretch (age group 50+) based on Kinetic Awareness® - every Thursday at 11-12.30 EST* $20 click here for more information MORE NEWS: Congratulations prof. em. Dr. Jill Green for a lifetime achievement award from the Dance Science and Somatics Education Group! After a long and productive career at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, School of Dance Jill received the honors of Professor emerita and can now officially retire. Of course this means that she will be more busy then even before ... Jill is also leading the Education Committee of the Kinetic Awareness® Center which is about to join ISMETA. For this end we are updating the Certification Program ... To read more about Jill and her many contributions to the field of Somatic Dance and Scholarship please visit her updated teacher profile via the updated teachers-list   On Thursday October 28th, Thomas Körtvélyessy (MCKA) gave a Masterclass Kinetic Awareness® on Zoom Just and only your Neck to ca. 59 students of the ArtEZ Bachelor of Dance, as part of the #BeyondWeek. Warm thanks to Eva Karczag, Shelley Senter, Bettina Neuhaus, Eva Tremel, the director of the program, Aurélie Lever, alumni-participants Patrick Schmatzer and Elie Nassar, Frances Becker (MCKA) ... and all who collaborated to make this memorable first-time event possible! (summary by Eva Karczag on the website of ArtEZ)   AND ...  We are now conducting interviews for the Elaine Summers Legacy Project. How did Elaine and her work influence you? What are your special moments? How are you using Kinetic Awareness® in your own practice? Please get in touch and let us know if you want to participate! Send an e-mail to webmasterKAcenter@gmail.com

Spring 2018   Still from Walking on the Wall by Elaine Summers, performance: Trisha Brown Dance Company, Whitney Museum 1971 Reproduction with kind permission by the Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers and Trisha Brown Dance Company   While Elaine is at Carnegie Hall (at last!) side by side with Jimi Hendrix & Allen Ginsberg in the exposition Artifacts of Change, through the initiative of the talented Jennifer Eberhardt at Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, we are very much looking forward to see Elaine's newly preserved Walking on the Wall in   A TRIBUTE TO TRISHA BROWN at Anthology Film Archives, New York March 19th - more information here -   This presentation of work by Elaine Summers has been conducted in proper consultation with, and the approval of the Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers with thanks to Kinetic Awareness®  Center, Inc. Special thanks to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Special thanks to longterm Board-member Pearl Bowser, who generously brought her knowledge and memories of working with Elaine into the preservation process with Trisha Brown Dance Company. They in turn are excelling under Project Archivist Ben Houtman with care and diligence. The preservation has been done with a grant from the Mellon Foundation under the technical direction of Bill Brand, and with facilitation of the Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers by Kinetic Awareness®  Center, Inc. Here is once again the interview where Pearl explains how she was working on an edit of her own from the above material, which is now at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. She created this edit as Associate Artist at the Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia Foundation. The music in the film is by Elaine's longtime friend and collaborating composer Carman Moore!   You can also see the film-excerpt at the finally published video recording of Elaine's Memorial at Judson Memorial Church, February 28th, 2015. Click on this link to go directly to the YouTube page where you can also click on the various time-stamps of the many parts of the 2 hour film ... Thanks to Vincent Mineo, Harriet Bograd, Carman Moore, and everyone at Kinetic Awareness®  Center, Inc. for making it possible!     AND Save The Date: September 16th, for a coming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done of which Elaine and her work will be an integral part! - more information here

Winter 2017   A REVIEW : WHAT HAVE WE DONE?  Since the passing of our dear teacher, friend, mentor, inspiration, and founder of the Kinetic Awareness® Center, Elaine Summers in 2014, members of the Board of Directors have : Helped towards publication of her obituary in the New York Times and co-facilitated a memorial for Elaine at Judson Church in New York City, visited by 300+ people on location and live-streamed via internet Secured teaching materials and manuscripts not taken to Elaine's Magnificient Archive at Jerome Robbins Division/Lincoln Center at New York Public Library (special thanks to Tanisha Jones at NYPL and Michael von Uchtrupp for their help and support) Saved, restored, and maintained the three main websites of Elaine Summers and her work, including elainesummersdance & skytime Co-created a tribute to Elaine at Contact Quarterly with special thanks to Nancy Stark Smith & Lisa Nelson   Facilitated showings of Elaine Summers' works at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and at Dock11, Berlin in Germany   Supported research related to Elaine, giving access to her Artistic Estate   Taught classes and gave lectures about Elaine Summers and Kinetic Awareness® and their influences, a.o. at ArtEZ Dance Academy in the Netherlands   Started A Book for Elaine (read the invitation as a .pdf) where the editors invite submissions of memories of, moments with, thoughts about Elaine Summers, to collect and celebrate her deep impact on all who had the fortune to meet her and who continue to create special moments from her influence. All of this work has been done entirely on a volunteer basis, in collaboration and with mutual support for each other. We welcome you to contribute and be part of this "delicious" movement ... Please also consider to online via PayPal, or send a cheque to Kinetic Awareness® Center, Inc. c/o Charles R. Rosenberg 484 West 43rd Street, #42-A New York, NY 10036   WHAT ARE OUR FURTHER PLANS? continue to facilitate the legacy of Elaine's artistic Estate, in collaboration with Lincoln Center / New York Public Library and other partnering organisations and individuals   create an overall archival webspace about Elaine and her work update the website of Kinetic Awareness® Center : make it easier for members to interact and update each other about their activities, finding teachers, etc.   facilitate & sponsor projects by members of the Center, e.g. Therapy as Performance by Certified Master Teacher Leeny Sack (January 2018) keep working on A Book for Elaine (first deadline for submissions February 20th, 2018, when Elaine will have been born 93 years ago)  All donations, large and small, will go directly to help growing the fruits of Elaine's active life, her works, her teachings, and future dancing. Your contribution can also be acknowledged by official letter; charitable deductions can be claimed under applicable I.R.S. provisions, and be 100% tax-deductible in the U.S. Thank you very much! Charles Rosenberg, Nina d'Abracci, Meg Chang, Pearl Bowser, Frances Becker, Michelle Berne, Jill Green, Thomas Körtvélyessy, Ann Law, Robin Powell, Leeny Sack - Board of Directors

Winter 2014 / Spring 2015 Elaine Summers ©The Estate of Elaine Summers. All rights reserved, used with kind permission   With deep sadness the Kinetic Awareness® Center announces the passing away of the founder of our practice, Elaine Summers. She died December 27th, 2014, 5.30am at Bellevue Hospital, New York City from the consequences of a fall she suffered at her home a few days before. Our heartfelt condolances go out to Elaine's family. To learn more about Elaine and her long, rich life, please read her obituary in the New York Times, and for a more personal reminiscence, this article by Gia Kourlas. Warm thanks to Wendy Perron for her wonderful obituary in Dance Magazine. Elaine's vision and understanding of movement, which reached beyond the opinions of her time into the present and the future, her wonderful energy, her deep wisdom, her ability to work with the most minute of ways, her laughter and encouragement to all who have worked with her, will all be dearly missed. May her legacy continue to spread and create beautiful moments for all who encounter it. The members and Board of Directors of the Kinetic Awareness®  Center will convene to decide how to continue in the present situation and we will publish the outcome after a longer phase of decision-making. To everyone who supported the Center in the past and the present, our heartfelt thanks and appreciation.   A memorial for Elaine will be held at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South in New York City on February 28th, 6-10pm. We invite and encourage all of her colleagues and students, and those who crossed her path and got inspired by Kinetic Awareness® to write and publish their reminiscences, sending a copy to webmasterkacenter[at]gmail.com or send them by mail to 537 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York NY 10012 Donations towards the memorial, and for establishing her legacy are warmly welcome. still from "Absence & Presence" a filmdance by Elaine Summers, 1968-1986 © by The Estate of Elaine Summers. all rights reserved, used with kind permission

Spring / Summer 2014 Congratulations to Master Teacher Ellen Saltonstall, MCKA for her new website www.ellensaltonstall.com Ellen started working with originator Elaine Summers in the 1970s and has been instrumental in the becoming of the Kinetic Awareness® Center and its Certification Programme. She continues to teach in her home studio in New York City, throughout the U.S. and Europe. Sign up now for her coming Kinetic Awareness®Intensive June 27-29, 2014  in New York City "Kinetic Awareness® is a self-care method using rubber balls to release muscular and fascial tension. It's miraculous, fun and effective for anyone ! Come to one day or all three."   Day 1     Spine, abdomen, psoas, ribs Day 2 Shoulders, neck, arms, hands Day 3 Hips, thighs, calves and feet Times: 10 am - 5 pm Location: Saltonstall Studio 17 E 16th St #5, New York NY Prices: $120 single day $340 for all three days $320 early bird by June 13 To register: email ellen.saltonstall (at) gmail.com or call +1-212-727-7288   Ellen Saltonstall has over 30 years of experience in the bodywork field.  She is the author of the book Kinetic Awareness®: Discovering Your Bodymind (1988).  She co-authored two books with Dr. Loren Fishman: Yoga for Arthritis (2008)  and Yoga for Osteoporosis (2010). She teaches in her New York studio as well as other studios nationally and internationally. For more information visit www.ellensaltonstall.com

Master Teacher Leeny Sack, MCKA click here for her Facebook page

Fall / Winter 2013   KINETIC AWARENESS®(The Ball Work) Ten Week Introductory Workshop with Master Teacher Jill Green, Ph.D., MCKA Thursday Evenings, 6-7:30, August 1 - Oct 3 $125.00 for 10 week workshop or $15.00 per class for information call Jill Green at 336-432-4806 or email jilligreen (at)gmail.com   Kinetic Awareness® is an approach to somatic education that provides an opportunity to explore movement potential and develop movement possibilities.  This system of body-mind reeducation focuses on increased movement efficacy and ease through heightened awareness of automatic and conscious movement. It enhances the understanding of the language that the body uses to communicate with ourselves.  Because this system uses rubber balls to enhance body awareness and release excess muscular tension KA is often referred to as "the ball work."  Balls placed under various parts of the body provide contact with inner sensations, bringing awareness to inefficient patterns and psycho-physical processes.     read from Jill's classic article The Use of Balls in Kinetic Awareness®   The Netherlands: movement classes and intensives Kinetic Awareness® and dance by Master Teacher Thomas Körtvélyessy   Damani Leidsman, Sindy Tejeda, Judith van der Made Judith van der Made, Sindy Tejeda, Damani Leidsman bridging technique, a comprehensive movement approach based on Kinetic Awareness® for connecting organic principles of movement with making geometric-oriented shapes such as in European Classical Ballet, Graham Technique, Cunningham Technique and others.   taught at CLOUD Den Haag and CIRCLE Rotterdam throughout 2013 for more information in the Netherlands visit http://kineticawareness.nl

Summer 2012 for all those who have waited patiently, not one, but two intensives are coming up, both in New York City ...   photo©Paula Court Kinetic Awareness Intensive, July 23-27, 2012 (Monday - Friday) Times: 1 to 6 pm Location: Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th floor. New York, NY. Prices: $150 single day, $600 for all five days For more information and to register, click HERE Come and learn with Elaine Summers, the originator of the Ball Work, and our Master Certified Teachers, Ann Law, Nina D'Abbracci, and Thomas Körtvélyessy. The classes include experiential anatomy, the ball work, listening to the language of the body, injury prevention, centering and balancing, keeping your body healthy through understanding the natural movement of all our systems. The workshop will cover such topics as: Your fabulous head & neck Your great shoulders, arms and hands Understanding your incredible spine Your amazing pelvis and legs Your elastic knees and feet that give you power to use gravity and levity The breath of your life: the respiration system Your expressive sound Your viscerae: what are they doing? how do they work Your total body system - how do they talk to each other Work scholarship is available to certification candidates. The study of Kinetic Awareness® can be counted for life-experience credits at SUNY Empire State and the Gallatin School at New York University. For more information please contact Dr. Robin Powell at +1-212-727-3059.

Spring 2012 Congratulations Ann Law for her Certification !! Ann has been working extensively during her long-term exploration and study of Kinetic Awareness® For her certification she designed and made arrangements fo special Kinetic Awareness exercise balls with a KA logo printed. The video below was filmed in New York City, during Ann's visit to Elaine, and it shows beautifully how one can work with them. Please contact her at annlawdancing(at)gmail.com for purchase inquiry.

Winter 2011   Selections from the pioneering filmwork of originator Elaine Summers demonstrating the understanding of Kinetic Awareness® where every possible kind of movement is examined.

 

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Summer 2010 New York City certified teacher Meg Chang, Ed.D CKA sponsored by the Kinetic Awareness® Center New York City an initiative by originator Elaine Summers, sponsored by the Kinetic Awareness® Center NOT-FOR-PROFIT: 501C3 WORKSHOP& DISCUSSION. 1. Should you or shouldn't you; 2. What would it give you; 3. How to structure; 4. Q&A session. WHAT: NOT-FOR-PROFIT: 501C3 WORKSHOP & DISCUSSION WHO: Douglas Burack: Lutz& Carr WHEN: Tues, July 27, 2010. 5:30 - 8:30 PM, FREE ADMISSION WHERE: 537 Broadway #2 (bet Prince & Spring St.) Please R.S.V.P. Email: elainesummersdance@gmail.com with subject '501C3 WORKSHOP'. Photos of Illuminated Workingmanby Paula Court and Robert Lowe Thanks to NYSCA, NEA, SUNY Buffalo, Dr. Gerry O'Grady and the city of Buffalo. NY.   Rotterdam / The Netherlands performance project by certified Master Teacher Thomas Körtvélyessy MCKA in collaboration with the Kinetic Awareness® Center photo by Léon Richard Invitation to Secret Dancers a dance by the originator of Kinetic Awareness® Elaine Summers performed June 19th on the Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam, the Netherlands by Thomas Körtvélyessy / Reàl Dance Company Are You a Secret Dancer? visit http://stiekemedansers.wordpress.com for the full two-day programme, including a WORLD PREMIERE for SkyTime(tm)   This project has been realised with grants from the Fleur Groenendijk Foundation and the Municipality of the City of Rotterdam, Cultural Outreach Programme, in collaboration with the Elaine Summers Dance & Film Archives.

 

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March 2010 New work by originator Elaine Summers:

New book co-written by Senior Master Teacher Ellen Saltonstall (MCKA) now available! An all-encompassing book about Yoga for Arthritis. Comprehensive, clear and direct knowledge - Yoga excercises that relieve pain and develop flexibility for specific problems of arthritis. You can buy it here. "I highly recommend it. Bravo! " Elaine Summers

Ellen Saltonstall also wrote the classic primer on Kinetic Awareness® which is currently out of print. To place a paid reservation or donate for the re-print please contact Ellen Saltonstall or call +1-212-727-7288

originator Elaine Summers "Invitation to Secret Dancers" Stuyvesant Cove Park / Solar House 1 New York City, 2005 photo by Kenneth Klein

originator of the ball work Elaine Summers , MA, MIT-CAVS private sessions EXPLORE THE LOVE OF A LIFETIME ... YOUR INFINITE WAYS TO MOVE WITHOUT PAIN AND THE WONDERFUL CREATIVE DANCER WITHIN YOU To make an appointment with Elaine call +1-212-925-0142

(left to right) Master teachers Frances Becker and Alexandra Ogsbury photography: Paula Court   About Elaine Summers: originator of Kinetic Awareness® (The Ball Work®) MA. NYU, MIT (Center for Advanced Visual Studies) Fellow, Fulbright Scholar "There are many applications and levels of Summers' Kinetic Awareness work. Most individuals, including those who eventually incorporate Kinetic Awareness into their own work, initially come to study because they have an injury or other problem with their bodies. Training and maintaining the body is the central concern of dancers and the reason why many major dancers in New York have ended up on Summers' floor. KA does not substitute one system of movement for another, but by learning how the body works-physically, physiologically and psychologically---students can reclaim their bodies as their own. --- Trisha Brown believes all dancers should study with Summers because of the sensitivity to the body Summers' training imparts and Summers' ability to analyze error in dance movement. -Ann-Sargent Wooster The Drama Review DANCE/MOVEMENT ISSUE VOL. 24 #4

	Kinetic Awareness® in Europe:
	Greece: Kinetic Awareness® Study Athens started by Barbara Mueller, MCKA, teaching workshops and classes, also in Vienna, Austria. For more information and bio, click here
	Ukraine: Master-Class in Odessa by Thomas Körtvélyessy, MCKA on invitation of cultural NGO KusiCreaVision click here to read the article about the first KA® class ever taught in Ukraine.... (in Ukrainian) Realized with a travel-grant of Step Beyond An initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).
	The Netherlands: New information-website available in Dutch Visit http://kineticawareness.nl

 

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DANCE KA PERFORMANCES: INVITATION TO SECRET DANCERS: 5th phase of Kinetic Awareness KINETIC AWARENESS is a way to discover and understand the dancer that you are and enjoy the chance to dance. Join us by the riverside. Here are some pictures from the performance. All the wonderful photos below by Jeff Fox, Kenneth Klein, Deborah Goldberg. Secret dancer with umbrellas Carla, Maria and Harriet Tina, Nancy and Harriet Richard and his umbrella Meg, Tina and Secret dancers Marion, Richard and Murphy Elissa, Meg, Carla and Secret Dancers   all photos (c) 2005 by Jeff Fox, Kenneth Klein, Deborah Goldberg CEC Stuyvesant Cove presents INVITATION TO SECRET DANCERS, a dance/film performance by Judson Dance Theatre's Elaine Summers. The performances will be held at the Solar 1, an environmental arts and education center located in Lower Manhattan's Stuyvesant Cove Park. Original sound compositions by Carman Moore and Skyfriends will accompany. WHERE: SOLAR 1: 23rd St & the East River WHEN: Saturday June 18th (rain dateJune 19th) - 3pm, 5pm & 7pm Saturday June 25th (rain date June 26th) - 5pm, 7pm & 9pm WHO: Marion Ramirez (25th), Harriet Bograd, Daniel Sklar, Nancy Barber, Tina Erfer, Pearl Bowser, Meg Chang, Elissa White, Josh Bissett, Laura Quattrocchi, Rob Cook (Australia),Rebecca Loukes (London), Jung Woong Kim, Kiori Kawai (solo: Goddess of the Sea), Richard Jochum, Leeny Sack MUSIC: SKY ENSEMBLE Composer: Carman Moore Performers: Marianna Rosett, Premik Russell Tubbs Invitation to Secret Dancers is an improvisational dance choreographed by Elaine Summers which has been performed in many places and countries by many people, including the Karlsplatz, Vienna, Australia, London, Rome, Woodstock, NYC and all over the U.S.A.   Thomas Körtvélyessy in the Netherlands: In 2004 Thomas Körtvélyessy / Reàl Dance Company performed his version of Invitation to Secret Dancers in Arnhem and Rotterdam, The Netherlands,as part of the ongoing project con·sens·us performers: Eva Tremel, Thomas Körtvélyessy guest choreographer and dancer: Meredith Nadler musician: Pierre Verbeek curator Rotterdam: Daniela Swarowsky curator Arnhem: Corien van der Poll artist-manifestation 'Plein Publiek' Kronenburg shopping center, Arnhem- September 2004 artist-in-residency at ZiM Rotterdam, Netherlands - October 2004 www.realdancecompany.org www.con-sens-us.blogspot.com   bottom 3 photos: performance series 'agua morta-agua viva' (dead water - living water) with Aharona Israel project Perambulacao (wandering) a collaboration of Brazilian and Dutch artists Rotterdam Architectural Biennial 2005 photo-credits: top-left © 2004 by Ingrun Schnitzler | top-right and mid-left (c)2004 by Sule Attems| stills from videography by Geeske Kanters all images used with kind permission.

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arm of Master Teacher Ellen Saltonstall photo © by Paula Court
 

The Use of Balls in Kinetic Awareness^®

Balls can provide a direct link to integrative body-mind experience and processes

Jill Green Ph.D To read Jill's full article click here

Kinetic Awareness^® is a system of body discovery and therapy that calls attention to the simplest components of movement and explores emotional attitudes toward the body. Because one of its special features is the use of graduated rubber balls to enhance body awareness and release excess muscular tension, Kinetic Awareness^® is often affectionately referred to as "the ball work".

The complete course of study takes several years and has five parts:

1. By the end of the first phase, the student has become aware of each part of the body and is able to articulate it. It should be possible to move each part of the body slowly and with little tension.
2. In the second phase, one becomes aware of total body systems such as breathing, circulation, tension, etc. The student should be able to articulate slowly and with little tension more than one part of the body simultaneously.
3. At the end of the third phase, the student should be able to change speeds and move extremely slowly through all his/her speeds to the very most rapid.
4. The fourth phase incorporates the first three phases and adds to them the ability to change tension levels at will, from minimum to maximum tension.
5. The fifth phase combines the previous four and adds the ability to relate to another person and be aware of them in a performance.

The Kinetic Awareness^® Center's present project is, through study and research, to discover and describe the parameters (possibilities and limitations)of the human movement system's ability to maintain health, to implement injury prevention, and to discover the kinds of injuries which can recuperate through movement and by understanding the limitations and the effectiveness of the body's own kinesthetic ability to heal injuries.

Who originated Kinetic Awareness^®?
Kinetic Awareness^® was developed by dancer/choreographer Elaine Summers in the 1960's.
Her dance career was interrupted at an early age when she began to show symptoms of osteoarthritis, a potentially crippling disease of the joints. As a result, she became interested in learning how to move without pain so that she could continue dancing. During this period, she studied with Carola Speads, whose system of Physical Re-education evolved from the work of bodywork innovator, Elsa Gindler.

Summers developed a system of body and mind coordination based on listening to and understanding the language of the body. Through experimentation, she evolved the technique of using various sizes of rubber balls to assist in making positive changes in the body.
Kinetic Awareness^® as a technique for dance is the basis of her choreography.
She has been honored by many grants and her work has been presented internationally.
After performing and teaching in New York for many years, Summers established the Kinetic Awareness^® Center in 1987 to continue her work.

"The work is an everyday living and working tool. You learn to internalize an awareness, an understanding of everything about the inside of your body." —Tony Nunziata, Actor

Who Benefits from Kinetic Awareness^®?

• dancers, actors, musicians and artists
      who wish to increase their technical and expressive range.
• educators, psychotherapists and health professionals
      who are integrating the kinetic language of the body with the language of the emotions.
• kinetic techniques of developing a feeling of well-being through understanding how to
      regain energy , lessen and/or eliminate chronic pain.
• people who want to heal existing injuries and avoid future ones.
• a gentle way to develop coordination, physical self-confidence due to history of abuse,
      eating disorders, or addictions

"Spending most of my life as a brain in a jar, I was shocked to discover I had a living, feeling body, glorious and painful. I am no longer willing to ignore it."  —Sara Friedman, Writer

Congratulations to Trisha Brown for her elegant new book:
"Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001" Amazon link, Barnes and Noble link
U.S. DANCE AND VISUAL ARTS; COMPOSING STRUCTURE
BY Marianne Goldberg essay pages 29 to 44

Brown released the dancer's "set," a particular tensile way of holding the body in the forties and fifties, which she had learned through studies at Mills and at the Merce Cunningham Studio after she arrived in New York in 1961. Through Alexander and also intensive, long-term study of another emerging form, Kinetic Awareness, founded by the Judson choreographer and filmmaker Elaine Summers, Brown began to initiate movement from very different kinesthetic knowledge.
These newly surfacing somatic ideas offered alternatives to how to hone her body for dancing. She shed the stylized use of her muscles and the tensile alertness through the spine and skin. Focusing instead on subtleties of elegant, relaxed alignment of her spine and limbs, she moved with ease and a spatial clarity that stemmed from innovative inner imagery. Brown looks at home physically in these moves, and a different virtuosity and creativity emerged, grounded in anatomically clear and efficient action. New sensations, perceptions, and energy developed within her body and between body, space, time, and geometry.
These changes became a technical breakthrough for dance in America. They separated many in the sixties and seventies generation from others who stayed with Cunningham or Graham techniques. Brown's in-depth new studies did become major catalysts for creating her own movement. When she formed her company in the early seventies, she chose performers who also reconceived the human structure and the meaning of physical skill.

Published by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 2002. Page 30