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Reclaiming our Bodies Workshop

©Michael Slobodian_Margie Gillis
Sunday, February 24, 2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Margie Gillis

Location: the Ark, 14 Epworth Dorm Ln, Durham, NC 27705

Reclaiming our Bodies Workshop. This workshop will focus on healing through movement. Facilitated by Margie Gillis (Canada), a socially committed choreographer, performer and teacher who has worked together with therapists in America and Europe to develop techniques that help survivors to somatically identify their sensations and shift them, physically and emotionally. Participants do not need any specific previous experience. Registration Required, https://bit.ly/2sLi0Tq. Maximum of 20 participants. No observers, please. Co-sponsored by the Office of Gender Violence Intervention, Duke University Women's Center.

Margie Gillis, Canadian choreographer, performer and teacher, is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At sixty-five years of age, she has maintained an active career that is followed with interest by audiences of all ages. She is one of a rare handful of mature artists who continues a full and ongoing process of discovery, transition and transformation, by constantly reinvestigating and reinterpreting the power of dance through her immersion in her career as creator, performer and teacher. "My approach to dance and choreography is based on listening to the different connections that exist between the spirit and the body. This is the natural kinetic process whereby our inner landscape translates into electric impulses that transmit to the muscles the information as to how and with what quality to move."