Resources
Janet Adler https://disciplineofauthenticmovement.com/circles-of-four.html
Books:
Arching Backward: The Mystical Initiation of a Contemporary Woman 1995
Offering from the Conscious Body: The Discipline of Authentic Movement 2002
Films: www.expressivemedia.org
Looking for Me 1970, documenting her work with autistic children
Still Looking 1989, reflecting her work in the Discipline of Authentic Movement
Also see:
Patrizia Pallaro (Editor), Authentic Movement: Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler, and Joan Chodorow, Volume One 1999
Patrizia Pallaro (Editor), Authentic Movement: Moving the Body, Moving the Self, Being Moved A Collection of Essays, Volume Two 2007
Nancy Stark Smith https://nancystarksmith.com/
Book: Caught Falling, 2008
Journals: Contact Quarterly, l975-2020, 45 years of Editor Notes and articles
See full listing of videos and materials
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen www.bodymindcentering.com/about/bonnie-bainbridge-cohen/
Books: Sensing, Feeling and Action, Basic Neurocellular Patterns: Exploring Developmental Movement, and The Mechanics of Vocal Expression
Twelve DVD’s based on various body systems including The Ligamentous System, The Fluid System, The Endocrine System, The Organ System, The Nervous System, The Dynamics of Breathing, The Dynamics of Vocalization, and three on the skeletal system.
See full listing of videos and materials.
Thanks
Special Thanks To:
Featured presenters: Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith
Eleven additional presenters: Lisa Nelson, Lesley Farlow, Bonnie Morrissey and Paula Sager, Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank, Susan Bauer, Chris Aiken, Harriet Brickman, Bill Arnold, Stephen Petegorsky.
Five performers: Paul Matteson, with Rosalyn Driscoll; Shayla-Vie Jenkins; Peter Schmitz; and Andrea Olsen.
Eight archivists: Cassie Mey and Emma Brown/NYC Public Library for the Performing Arts, Elizabeth Myers/Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Elizabeth Sharpe/Historic Northampton, Aaron Rubenstein/U Mass Archive, Norten Owen/Jacob’s Pillow, Kate Tarlow Morgan/Currents Magazine, and Lesley Farlow/Host. Plus Paula Sager, Bonnie Morrissey, and Gill Wright Miller.
Nine visual artists: “Vectors” exhibit, assembled by Harriet Brickman, including Philip Buller, Bill Arnold, Kristina Madsen, Katherine Sanderson, Herb Ferris, Harriet Brickman, Rosalyn Driscoll, Stephen Petegorsky, and Gordon Thorne. “Looking Back/Moving Forward” historic display and slideshow: Stephen Petegorsky, Robert Tobey, and Bill Arnold.
On-site photographing of featured presenters: Robert Tobey and Anna M. Maynard.
Festival Co-Hosts: Lisa Thompson/A.P.E. and Jen Polins/SCDT
Festival Collaborator: Historic Northampton: Laurie Sanders and Elizabeth Sharpe, Co-Directors
Festival Collaborator: Northampton Open Media: Al Williams, David Newland, and Ian Bauer
Smith College Dance Department: Chris Aiken and Faculty, Hosting; David Wiggal, Amy Putnam, Alan Schneider—technical assistance
Amherst College Dance Department: Jenna Riegel and Wendy Woodson, Housing and Guest Artist master class
Festival Introductions for Saturday panel: Susan Waltner and Annie Love Woodhull.
Dynamo tech team: Mandy Kimm, Kieto Mahaniah, Miguel Castillo, plus Alan Schneider at Theatre 14/Smith College. Microphones from Klondike Sound.
Amazing and Enduring Management Staff: Leah Fournier, Sofia Engelman
Festival Support Team, Interns, and Smith Grad class: Sarah Lass, Joey Schmitz, Peter Schmitz, Maya Felten, Susan Prins, Molly Fletcher-Lynch, plus SCDT interns, and eight Smith Grad Students in Scientific Principles in the Teaching of Dance: Erin Kouwe, Xan Burley, Toni Craige, Alex Springer, Chrissy Martin, Sarah Konner, Miguel Castillo, Mary Beth Brooker, Luca Ton Bogataj, CQ table: Em Papineau; CQ board Shaina Cantino
Funding support: Northampton Arts Council and Brian Foote. And all 200+ participants!
Website, Editing & Media Archiving: Scotty Hardwig
Videography: Mandy Kimm, Ian Bauer/Northampton Open Media
Video Editing: David Newland/Northampton Open Media
Festival Assistant: Mandy Kimm
Festival Curator & Organizer: Andrea Olsen
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