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Soul Rythms

CREATIVE DANCE AND BODY EXPRESSION FOR CHILDREN

Minimum age: 8 years old
Monday July 14 to Friday July 18, 2:30 - 4pm (5 classes)
Special Introductory Price: $150

PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Please call the office to save a place for your child
Registration Form (PDF)

Soul Rhythms introduces children to the Spanish language and culture using music and creative movement. Creative dance helps release and stimulate body potential through creativity, sensitivity and freedom, which are the key to getting together with others.

The objectives of this workshop is to help children:

Discover their ability to learn another language
Develop child perception through body movement
Appreciate and understand music through their bodies
Be able to find their ability to feel and express emotions

Practicing creative dance in children is optimal, incredible changes are observed in their attention and communication skills, emotional stability increases, learning becomes easier and the creative side is improved.

Children when dancing have fun, jump, hop and leap into everything that movement inspires them

Maurice Béjart

CREATIVE DANCE AND BODY EXPRESSION FOR ADULTS

Saturday and Sunday, 10am - 1pm
July 12-13
Special Introductory Price: $125

PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Please call the office to save your place
Registration Form (PDF)
Soul Rhythms introduces adults/teachers to the Spanish language and culture using music and creative movement. Creative dance is open to everyone and its language is easy to grasp and very accessible. Movement generates changes in our body, mind and emotions.

The objectives of this workshop is to help us:

Discover our ability to learn another language
Increase our body movement skills to enrich creativity and expression
Understand music through our bodies
Be able to find our ability to feel and express emotions
Improve our self-esteem and identity increasing self-trust
Increase our body conscience and unblock our muscles
Respect and accept our time and that of others

Participants register positive changes when they experience class after class new situations in their bodies, accepting their limits, releasing tension, creating and communicating through other languages.

I learned to dance discovering the world...I learned to dance observing my cats...I learned to dance looking at clouds...I learned to dance walking in nature..."

Maurice Béjart

Laura Beneitez is a creative dance therapist, cellist and music teacher. She started studying classical dance and violoncello at seven, getting her bachelors degree at the Professional Conservatory of Music Teresa Berganza in Madrid (Spain) in 2003. Her thirst of knowledge led her to Argentina where she studied Dance Therapy with Maria Fux, creator of her own method, and body language, sensoperception and creative dance with Deborah Kalmar. She also broadened her cello studies in tango with maestro Fernando Dieguez at Escuela de Musica Popular de Buenos Aires and became a member of its Orquesta Tipica de Tango.

Laura combines her teaching job in schools in with her cello career as a member of the Orquesta Filarmonia in Madrid and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Toledo. She also has taught in Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, instructing students as well as teachers.

In 2007 she arrived in New York to study at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, where she recently finishes her program. As a result of her training as a dancer and musician she integrates both disciplines to teach Spanish. She gets a chance to put this idea into practice at Hands on the World School and at Spanish All Year Round School, where she also trains teachers.