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Public Moves: The Tuning Class with Malcolm Manning

18.07.2025 to 18.07.2025 - MQ Forecourt

Public Moves: The Tuning Class with Malcolm Manning

FREE ENTRY, DANCE/PERFORMANCE/MUSIC, LEISURE & OUTDOOR


Public Moves: The Tuning Class
with Malcolm Manning

Fri 18.07., 17.00h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

We tune ourselves to our inner/outer environment through gentle guided movements of attention and our physical bodies. We taste what it might mean to be more centered in our experience, more grounded in our bodies and more present to the unfolding of time. The practice is offered as a resource to develop and support resilience in these uncertain times. The aim is simply to leave the classes feeling better than when you arrived, ready for whatever comes next. Malcolm works with a wide range of dance and somatic approaches and organises pedagogically through the lens of the Feldenkrais Method. Primary lineage, besides Moshe Feldenkrais, is rooted in the work of Mary Fulkerson, Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Bonnie Cohen, Julyen Hamilton, Hubert Godard and Bill Palmer.

We will work both in standing and lying on the ground, so please bring a mat and, if it's not warm, a blanket!

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography

Sixteen years ago, Malcolm Manning chose to stop making performance works, make teaching his artistic practice and the process of creating classes the field for his artistic research. Back in 1994 he wrote: “For me, the most radical potential of dance is realised not through watching a dance, but through experiencing dancing.”
It is through teaching that he shares his inquiry of what it is to be a thinking, feeling, moving subject. In class, he aims to facilitate a dialogue with ourselves and our environment in which we are empowered to be our own experts.

Not only has he been offering his work in the context of contemporary dance – in educations, at dance centres and for companies – but he has also actively sought out contexts as diverse as social welfare, general and special needs education, medicine, and architectural education.

He is certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method® (2005) and the Body And Earth® (2012) work of Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. He holds an MA in Dance Pedagogy from UniArts Helsinki (2010); and studied for two years at the SNDO Amsterdam (1993–95). He has also made non-certified studies of Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Photo: © Shaylor

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