Hughthir White, Contemplative Dance

Contemplative  Dance Practice 

What is Contemplative Dance Practice?

Contemplative Dance Practice is a participatory movement and meditation practice that explores embodied awareness. Created in the 1970’s by Naropa University’s Barbara Dilley, today it is practiced internationally. If you are drawn to an inner place of mind body connection and wish to express yourself through dance, creative movement, please come.

Exploring Silence, Silence in Motion

Dance most often has music. You dance in the ‘style’ of the music. You are driven by the rhythm, the pulse. What happens when the music stops? What happens when you are listening to your bodies impulses, the creaking of the floor, the sounds of bodies breathing? 

Contemplative dance explores this space of silence. The two hour practice has four segments.

Meditation, Yoga and Dance warm-up, Dance Improvisation in shared sacred space, and ends with discussion. The whole segment is a thoughtful self exploration, allowing people to delve into their personal experiences. 

Facilitated by Hughthir White, who participated in the first classes of Contemplative Dance taught by Barbara Dilley, at Naropa University. Hughthir is a graduate of the Dance Program at Naropa and has spent years studying, practicing and teaching dance, improvisation, and choreography. Hughthir is as well is a certified Yoga instructor and teaches Yoga at Yen Yoga and Fitness.

If you have questions regarding this practice, you may contact Hughthir at: Hughthir000@centurytel.net