Contemplative Movement
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Melissa Rolnick Bio:
New to St. Louis and CRC, Melissa C. Rolnick has a BFA in dance from the Purchase College Conservatory at SUNY, and an MFA from Mills College. She danced professionally with the San Francisco Moving Company, Cliff Keuter’s New Dance Company and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company performing nationally and internationally. Her teaching and movement practice have been informed by a lifetime in dance, somatic (mind/body) practice and movement research in many forms including Yoga (Iyengar teacher training, Judith Lasater), Authentic Movement (Janet Adler, Dani Riggs), and more recently Gaga (Ohad Naharin and Batsheva dancers). She served on the faculty at Sonoma State University, Western Washington University, California State University Fresno, & Arizona State University, receiving the distinguished teaching award. She recently retired from teaching at Gustavus Adolphus College in MN (after 18 years) and is currently Professor Emerita of Dance.
In 2015 Melissa was the recipient of the Lenz Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies at Naropa University where she began formally developing a somatic/contemplative/creative movement practice called MEISA: movement-exploration-imagination-sensation-awareness. She has continued developing the practice over the last 10 years working with a variety of populations from university students to older adults.
