unmapping
Recognize, integrate, and transcend habitual movement patterns.
Unmapping is an ongoing research framework using The Feldenkrais Method® and improvisational movement practices to recognize habitual movement patterns and investigate alternative movement possibilities. The goal of Unmapping is to identify, integrate, and transcend one’s habitual movement pathways, whether they were acquired through training, personal histories or beliefs, or societal norms, with unrecognized potentials, to find greater awareness, choice, and, ultimately, one’s own idiosyncratic movement signature.
Each workshop begins with a somatic exploration based on The Feldenkrais Method focuing on a single idea or function. This is followed by various solo, duet and group improvisational structures which expand on the exploration introduced during the first part of the workshop. Through this work one’s habitual movement tendencies can be recognized, then alternative choices are explored, and finally they are integrated into a new whole.
Unmapped workshops explore an array of functions and concepts, including: the use of eyes in movement, breath, the three centers of weight (pelvis, thorax, head), Naming, Hands & Feet, Archimedean Lever, New Territory, and Re-finding Balance.