Soto is planning to come back to Auckland in 2009.
Please check the website early next year or contact us for more information

This internationally renowned master teacher from Anna and Daria Halprin’s Tamalpa Institute returns to MARCO. Participants from 2007, 2006 and new-comers all welcome.

Movement from the Inside Out and Life Art Process
Movement, in many cultures and societies, has been, and is, used as a rich and powerful tool in developing awareness and understanding of who we are, and as a way to express and create who we are in our relationships, in nature, and events in our day to day existence. To Dance is to be a human being.
This aspect of the workshop includes exercises to create and nurture our awareness and personal development. There will be practices and exercises to focus, ground and center the body, mind and spirit, as well as, the relationship between one’s kinesthetic and feeling body, and how that shapes and forms our movement.
From the ground of awareness we will move into the expressive and creative aspects of our dance. To know, in and through the body, is an embodied knowledge.
The work is presented in a safe and accessible way that is appropriate for both beginners and more experienced participants.
“Movement is life and Life is Movement. When we consciously and intentionally invest and express in our movement we are celebrating Life.”

The performance lab
The Performance Lab provides an environment for participants to develop and deepen their skills in the expressive and creative art of Movement Theatre. The work rests in a strong movement base and is layered with the voice and language. The work is based in improvisation, as well as, recycling and reworking material that comes out of the improvisation process.
“Improvisation is a powerful metaphor for life. Studying improvisation provides a vehicle to study who we are in the present moment, and to develop ourselves through being awake and present in the moment. Exploration is a development and refinement of the material that arises from the Improvisational process. Exploration allows us to shape and deepen our material and ourselves in the material.”
Students are encouraged to bring to the Lab their stories and myths as a vehicle to share and enlighten themselves and others leading to expanded awareness and transformation. Participants will work in solo, duet, trio and ensemble configurations and is open to all levels of experience.
“Creativity goes to the very core of what it means to be human, and when we are involved in the creative process we are anchoring ourselves in our humanity.”
Soto has developed the Performance Lab over the past 20 years at Tamalpa Institute, in his teachings in Europe, Australia and in private classes. He has been teaching, performing and studying movement since 1968 and has taught internationally since 1979 including throughout Europe, in Japan, Lebanon and Australia. He has a wide background in Post Modern Dance, African and Brazilian Dance, Movement Studies, Martial Arts and Body Work.

G. Hoffman Soto MA, RMT
Soto has been associated with Anna and Daria Halprins’s Tamalpa Institute and the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop since 1973 and was part of the original faculty who contributed to the founding of the Institute. Soto teaches Somatics and Experiential Anatomy at New College of California and Kinesiology and Anatomy at Alive & Well Institute, San Anselmo, CA and the Lomi School. He has taught internationally since 1979 in Lebanon, Japan, Canada and throughout Europe. In Germany, Soto leads a yearly training program called Awareness in Movement. In Marin County, California, he maintains a private practice in neuromuscular repatterning, cranial sacral therapy and movement. Soto has written a manual entitled Ideokinesis: Body Mind Integrity and Integration. He has been blessed by having great teachers and influenced tremendously by Anna Halprin and the Life/Art Process, Ruth Zaporah, Min Tanaka and the many students he has shared and learned from over the years.

For more information please contact:
Amanda on Tel: (649) 308 8482 or Email: amanda

Photos from 2006 Sotomotion at MARCO

This was a unique opportunity to study with a internationally renowned master teacher from Anna and Daria Halprin’s Tamalpa Institute.

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