Brain Body Connection with Jennifer Nikolai

Professional and emerging dancers are welcome to attend the online zoom platform based Brain-Body Connection Professional Development Series hosted by Free Flow Dance Theatre free of charge. If you would like and can afford to make a donation to support the future of the company please do! We are pleased to host this series of workshops with the support of the Community Initiative Fund, City of Saskatoon and Sasktel.

BrainDance; reminders of playfully moving from our early years


This adaptive, inclusive workshop integrates research in dance and theatre pedagogy linked to the brain and healthy lifespan development. With an emphasis on mindfulness through self-awareness, the workshop progresses through self and shared awareness, partner-work and regulation of self with others, applying dance improvisation elements. The facilitator applies research-based and shared findings from theme and variation adaptations of BrainDance (Green Gilbert). Gilbert’s (2018) Brain-Compatible Dance Education methodology is a sequential, holistic alignment of the body, an approach aimed at involving numerous parts of the brain supportively, offering meaningful movement opportunities. Participants will experience BrainDance variations with a focus on the application of breath, and eight fundamental movement patterns and progressions that build from self-awareness to collaboration. We will workshop ways in which movement can be used to bring mindfulness connection, insight into elements of play and joy and support self-regulation through calming the brain-body reciprocal relationship.

Gilbert, A. G. (2018). Brain-Compatible Dance Education 2nd Edition. Human Kinetics.

Tickets https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/free-flow-dance-theatre-inc/events/brain-body-connection-jennifer-nikolai/

You may also like the following events from Free Flow Dance Theatre Company:

• This Tuesday, 17th June, 06:00 pm, Brain Body Connection with Meghann Michalsky in Saskatoon
• Next Friday, 27th June, 06:45 pm, Back Alley Antics 2025 in Saskatoon
• Next month, 28th July, 05:00 pm, Brain Body Connection with Gdalit Neuman in Saskatoon

Also check out other Nonprofit events in Saskatoon, Workshops in Saskatoon, Arts events in Saskatoon.