RHYTHM, HARMONY, FLOW
BODY MUSIC + AXIS SYLLABUS
WITH KEITH TERRY, EVIE LADIN, + NURIA BOWART | APRIL 10 - 13
Body Music is the oldest music on the planet - beyond body percussion, we include melody and harmony in the music the body makes. There are many traditional Body Musics in the world, from African-American Hambone and Flamenco Palmas to Sumatran Saman and Ethiopian Armpit music. BODY MUSIC is an effective way of internalizing and understanding rhythmic work, enhancing one’s sense of time, timing, phrasing, independence, coordination and ensemble awareness. It is a useful tool for musicians, dancers and movers of all kinds -- anyone interested in deepening their rhythmic and harmonic skills. Using the oldest instrument on the planet -- your own human body -- we clap, slap, snap, step and vocalize our way through some very fun and funky, original and traditional rhythmic music. Sessions involve skill building, rhythmic independence and coordination, physical multitasking, basic joint mechanics lessons with a good dose of play and improvisation - in harmony and time.
Keith Terry and Evie Ladin are co-founders of the International Body Music Festival, exploring the language of body music from culture to culture, and have worked with Axis Syllabus teacher Nuria Bowart for 20 years in Body Music ensembles such as Corposonic and MoToR/dance, from their home base in Oakland, California.
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' OR 'Work Trade' when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, go to the Work Exchange page.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Since 1978 Keith Terry has developed a contemporary style of Body Music based on his training as a jazz drummer, as well as his years of intensive study and collaboration with world rhythmic systems. His methodology has been adopted into Orff music teaching pedagogy, is used by music and classroom teachers at every level of education, in neuroscience studies about stroke recovery and other applications, and by Body Musicians around the world. Keith tours extensively in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, where his Body Music performances, workshops, residencies and choreographic commissions are popular among professional performers and educators. He is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and the Founding Director of Crosspulse, a 45-year old Oakland, California-based arts organization dedicated to rhythm-based intercultural music and dance.
Evie Ladin is a percussive-dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, banjo player and square-dance caller with a lifetime of experience in traditional American cultural arts and intercultural music/dance performance and education. Her performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian arts with other African-Diaspora traditions, in the American folk music world, the international Body Music and percussive dance communities, and at all levels of education. Her all- female percussive dance company MoToR/dance explores the complete expression of the sonic body in space, while elucidating a spiritual and physical connection to one another, complexities in American history, and the female spirit. Inspired by the vibrant International Body Music scene to workshop complex physical rhythmic independence with world rhythmic systems, her MoToR/method involves interlocking percussive dance arrangements with layered vocal harmonies and large group choreography in a powerful moving choir.
Nuria Bowart is a professional dancer and movement artist; a student, practitioner, and teacher of Capoeira with the rank of Mestra; a practicing manual therapist and Certified Rolfer®; a movement educator authorized as a Teacher and Certifier within the Axis Syllabus© international research community; and a mother of two.
Nuria holds over 25 years of vocational research and practice across multiple therapeutic, martial, and artistic disciplines rooted in the expressive, relational, and healing capacities of the human body. She is deeply engaged with traditional forms of yoga, Western somatics, choreographic and improvisational movement arts, functional anatomy research, and more.
Nuria teaches across the US and internationally.
