Experience

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  Self employed

  Dec 1979 - now

  Movement educator and coach,dancer/performer, choreographer,body worker

  Barbara's studies in the field of movement span a huge spectrum of forms, aesthetics, and ideas. She received her BA in dance from Hunter College, NYC, under the tutelage of Dorothy Vislocky, and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Her choreographic vision and passion is the solo dance, drawing on her life experiences, architecture, time, the moment, and artistic exposures to create moving dances with clarity and intention; spare and rigorous in their construction. She is a dedicated practitioner who has honed her own body’s strength and artistry and inspires a young and older generation. Her practice extends to classes and body work that have produce, healed and maintained some of the greatest dancers around the world. Classes, and body work focus on and provide the tools to support movement of all styles of dance and other activities, as well as everyday life. The essential premise is that the postural and movement support of the body is the same in all activities. The purpose of class is to re-educate one’s body with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical, intellectual, and organic level. The result is a clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the innate intelligence of the body. My work has many facets and levels. It is a way to explore one’s capacity to move, bringing insight into the workings of one’s body. It brings efficiency, increased facility, and creativity. Its embodiment creates possibilities. It manifests itself in the creative capacity by releasing the constrictions of the body and mind from configurations of right and wrong. From this openness to process comes a wealth of options we often overlook – in our work, in our lives, in ourselves. From here, we can find our own truth, and realize it in the artistic form we choose. This work is not restricted to dancers but open to anyone who wants to achieve greater efficiency, better dynamic postural alignment and freedom within their body. Show less

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  Barbara mahler's dances

  Jun 1982 - now

  Master teacher klein technique and zero balancing practioner
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  Susan klein school of dance and movement

  Apr 1983 - Apr 2004

  Educator

  A faculty member and substitute dance and movement teacher 1978-1983Main Teacher, Associate Director - "Motor" of School

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  Zero balancing association

  Jan 1989 - now

  Faculty and practitioner
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  Barbara mahler dance and healing enterprises

  Dec 1989 - now

  Artistic director barbara mahler makes dances

  Choreographer, teacher, dancer. Master Teacher Klein Technique- a system for health in movement and dance.Teacher and Certified practitioner of Zero Balancing.Postural and movement therapist.www.barbaramahler.net

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  National danish school for the performing arts

  Aug 1994 - Jan 2015

  Guest artist/faculty
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  Movement research

  Apr 2004 - now

  Ongoing faculty

  see websitewww.barbaramahler.net

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  Self-employed

  Apr 2009 - now

  Movement educator, choreographer,performer, bodyworker