Movement-Meditation
Melanie sees where an injury is waiting to happen and can help prevent it.
Melanie sees where emotion or congested energy is holding a professional or student back from joyful and expressive performance.
She acts as a guide for those performers and students who feel their dancing is not at the level they wish, or who have problems with self-esteem, self-confidence, recovery from injury, and/ or performance anxiety.
"Stretching, moving the limbs and body during a session, and paying attention to flow and expressiveness are particular signatures of my current practice influenced by my early massage, dance, shiatsu and movement training."--Melanie
Melanie danced from an early age, first with her mother, Nilda Stinson, a movement and creative arts pioneer in the Bowling Green, Ohio area.
Melanie studied with Cassandra Macino, Dina Kushnir, Gabriela Taub-Darvash, Igal Perry, Robert Chiarelli, Gail Grant, Cynthia Stone-Arenillas, Doris Rudko, Jane Russell, Melissa Hayden, Joyce Boorman, Phyllis Lamhut and others.
Melanie took classes at New York City's Authentic Movement Studio, and pursued ballet, ballet pedagogy, modern dance in various forms, dance criticism, movement meditation, jazz, Laban Effort-Shape, creative movement, and craft of choreography. She performed with the Nutmeg Ballet Company in Connecticut, and with college performance groups and her own small group in Ohio and New York.
At New York's Omega Institute of Holistic Studies, Melanie met Koji Yamamoto, who taught Katsugen. He called it a meditation movement form especially "beneficial for ballet dancers."
Melanie studied with Cassandra Macino, Dina Kushnir, Gabriela Taub-Darvash, Igal Perry, Robert Chiarelli, Gail Grant, Cynthia Stone-Arenillas, Doris Rudko, Jane Russell, Melissa Hayden, Joyce Boorman, Phyllis Lamhut and others.
Melanie took classes at New York City's Authentic Movement Studio, and pursued ballet, ballet pedagogy, modern dance in various forms, dance criticism, movement meditation, jazz, Laban Effort-Shape, creative movement, and craft of choreography. She performed with the Nutmeg Ballet Company in Connecticut, and with college performance groups and her own small group in Ohio and New York.
At New York's Omega Institute of Holistic Studies, Melanie met Koji Yamamoto, who taught Katsugen. He called it a meditation movement form especially "beneficial for ballet dancers."
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