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Centering through Movement: a Tai Chi-Inspired Dance workshop with Angela Sebastian
August 24, 2024, @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm HST
In-person only
Saturday, August 24, 2022
12:30 – 2:00 pm HST
$29 for single workshop
$50 for two workshops
Members’ & Students’ Discount: $25/workshop
Sunday’s Workshop: Dance + Breath Call-and-response Workshop with Angela Sebastian
August 25, 2024, @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm HST
Centering through Movement: a Tai Chi-Inspired Dance workshop
In this tai chi-inspired dance movement workshop we will work with inner rhythms. What is your inner rhythm? How do you find this and attune to it?
Students will move together as if moving in a flock. Discover balancing postures.
Travel across space. Complete the workshop with a choreographed combination to exercise your mind and memory, as well as balance your body. Become more aware of your pulse and breath as you move.
Moving together as one ‘flock’ encourages us to let go and get more embodied. The enhanced sense of community also creates in us a wonderful feeling of camaraderie.
Come move with us!
Students – please bring your student ID to the front desk to apply your student discount.
Angela Sebastian
Angela Sebastian is a Filipina Dance Artist. Her students love her “kind and encouraging feedback” and “level of challenge” in her technique classes. Students enthuse: “Her combos are fun, and her energy made me excited the class every time,” and “Angela creates a safe space for us to be ourselves.”
Angela actively collaborates and teaches in dance schools in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Hawaiʻi. Her connection with each community remains strong. Her current research is in Philippine Dance, titled ‘How traditions flow through time, spaces, and body’. It’s a testament to her commitment to perpetuating the significance of art and ensuring it remains a vital part of our cultural conversation.
Angela acquired her MFA in Dance with a focus on choreography and performance from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she, as a Student Affiliate and a Foundation Scholarship Recipient at the East-West Center, actively participated and created community projects such as Creative Movement classes, for all ages. She also performed and choreographed for local dance companies, such as Convergence Dance Theatre, IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre, and other independent dance projects.
Angela currently teaches as a dance instructor at Western Washington University (WWU) in Bellingham, Washington. She’s an active participating artist with the Kuntz and Company.
In the Philippines, Angela was a member of Airdance Philippines Contemporary Dance and Aerial Arts Company and the University of the Philippines Dance Company. She performed the works of renowned Filipino choreographers like Denisa Reyes, Myra Beltran, and Ma. Elena Laniog-Alvarez, across countries in Asia, such as Taiwan, Malaysia, and China. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in Dance at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD), Quezon City, she worked for a year and a half for Hong Kong Disneyland as a Parade Dancer. She won the Best Female Award for I-Dance HK 2019 contemporary dance competition.
We welcome Angela as a well-suited guest artist to Still & Moving Center’s richly multi-cultural ‘ohana.
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