Join me for a 3 hours workshop open to all bodies curious to explore movement through sensation, experiential anatomy, and pleasure. Focus on SOLO performance in the context of a group!
Rooted in Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®), we’ll explore the body’s inner landscapes, where muscles, fluids, organs, and the nervous system become sources of movement, perception, and imagination. Dance, movement, vocalization, imagination emerges from within, guided by sensation before shaping form. We’ll begin with a gentle warm-up using breath, movement, and voice to release tension and awaken energy, then move into improvisational explorations—playing, sensing, and responding to internal cues and group energy. I’m excited to share playful, guided scores drawn from my 20 years of experience in improvisation, contemporary dance, and physical theater—inviting curiosity, connection, and pleasure. The workshop environment generates a supportive space where individual and the group can listen deeply, move from attention to intention, nurture imagination, and encounter the unknown as a generative field. Improvisation becomes both practice and performance: a way of composing in real time, attending to what is present, and giving shape to what is not yet known. Together, we create space to move, express, and engage with the body as a living, relational practice. We will build an appetite for solo improvisation within a group context, developing attention into intention and real-time composition, so you can discover and deepen your personal artistic style.
Where: in person at the beautiful Held Space Studio - 960 Manhattan Ave (4th floor), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
Register: link here | $40
Visual: Natalie Linnea
Facilitator: Amélie Gaulier is a Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) practitioner, mindfulness instructor, somatic movement therapist, and performance improvisation artist. BMC® informs her artistic practice as a living inquiry into the body’s inner landscapes—where cells, fluids, organs, bones and the nervous system become sites of movement, perception, and imagination. Her work unfolds at the intersection of somatics and performance, where dance emerges from sensation rather than form, and where the body is both archive and unfolding process. Through embodied exploration, she invites movement that listens, disrupts, remembers, and reimagines. Her approach bridges somatic healing and improvisational practice—engaging the body as a site of intelligence, relation, and transformation. Amélie lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land. She is a white-bodied, longtime New York transplant.
About BMC®: An integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. Its uniqueness lies in the specificity with which each of the body systems can be personally embodied and integrated, the fundamental groundwork of developmental re-patterning, and the utilization of a body-based language to describe movement and body-mind relationships.
The study of BMC® is a creative process in which embodiment of the material is explored in the context of self-discovery and openness. Each person is both the student and the subject matter and the underlying goal is to discover the ease that underlies transformation.