Based in the rolling hills of Wisconsin's Driftless region, Bodies of Water Movement Arts' dance approach offers an
artistic relationship with movement, body-awareness and composition.
Inspired by the work of Ann Green Gilbert, the Global Somatics® Process and Body-Mind Centering®, this program fosters creative ideas, self-confidence and nuanced whole body integrative techniques.
Creative dance supports all bodies who love to move.
Offering both youth and adult classes and workshops throughout the year!
Photography: Hanna Agar, Erin Fonseca, Anna Kimm
artistic relationship with movement, body-awareness and composition.
Inspired by the work of Ann Green Gilbert, the Global Somatics® Process and Body-Mind Centering®, this program fosters creative ideas, self-confidence and nuanced whole body integrative techniques.
Creative dance supports all bodies who love to move.
Offering both youth and adult classes and workshops throughout the year!
Photography: Hanna Agar, Erin Fonseca, Anna Kimm
Offerings this Summer
Dance Camp! invites the creative expression of each dancer as we explore, inspire and work together to generate dances. Based in improvisation, creative dance and movement, we will work in small groups exploring ways to create, ways to move, and ways to share our work.
Location: Old Main Building, 321 E Decker St, Viroqua, WI
Register: [email protected]
Location: Old Main Building, 321 E Decker St, Viroqua, WI
Register: [email protected]
Fall 2025 Session ~~ TBD
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Moving Together, ages 1-3 with adult
Tuesdays 4:30-5:00, $60 Connect with your little one through movement, story, song and touch. We will explore developmental movement patterns, shape making, and open dancing together. |
Creative Movement, ages 3-7
Tuesdays, 3:30-4:15 Tuesdays, 5:15 -6:00 FULL $90 Through songs, verses, movement and music, Creative Movement facilitates brain/body learning of dance concepts and somatic developmental movement. |
Creating Dance, ages 7 -12
Wednesdays, 3:30-4:45, $130 Exploring dance through improvisation, body awareness and technique, dancers begin to experience choreography and somatic principals to broaden their kinesthetic learning. Working individually and in groups, we discover the many ways to find and create dance. |
Form and Style, ages 7-18
Thursdays, 3:30-4:45, $130 Dancers begin to cultivate their abilities with technique and detail. We will explore learning choreographic phrases, somatic forms, developing skills, dance improvisation and dance history. Students learn how to give artistic feedback through reflection and witnessing another. |
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2025 Adult Offerings
Deep Listening & Somatics: January 18th, 2-4pm
Performance of toy piano and dance: January 18th, 5:30
Dancing Through the Dark, 6 week series of modern dance: Jan 5-Feb 9, 2-3pm
321 E Decker St, Viroqua, WI
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Guest Artist Stacey Barelos will be joining Mandy in co-teaching a workshop in conscious listening, soundscape making, embodiment, and somatics. Since sound is movement, we will incorporate the body in a way to explore presence and possibility.
Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Stacey Barelos is a sound artist who actively performs, creates and teaches throughout the U.S. and beyond. Her work Clockworks was recently featured in Rome, Italy with her Ludus Duo partner, Arianna Granieri. In 2023 Dr. Barelos released her third album in 2023, “Toy, Toy, Toy” featuring solo and collaborative works with toy piano.
In 2020, Dr. Barelos’s work as a composer, performer and educator was featured on Nebraska Public Media’s “What If”, a state-wide program celebrating innovation and creativity in Nebraska.
For more information, visit her website, www.staceybarelos.com.
Stacey's recent toy piano album: staceybarelos.bandcamp.com/album/toy-toy-toy
Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Stacey Barelos is a sound artist who actively performs, creates and teaches throughout the U.S. and beyond. Her work Clockworks was recently featured in Rome, Italy with her Ludus Duo partner, Arianna Granieri. In 2023 Dr. Barelos released her third album in 2023, “Toy, Toy, Toy” featuring solo and collaborative works with toy piano.
In 2020, Dr. Barelos’s work as a composer, performer and educator was featured on Nebraska Public Media’s “What If”, a state-wide program celebrating innovation and creativity in Nebraska.
For more information, visit her website, www.staceybarelos.com.
Stacey's recent toy piano album: staceybarelos.bandcamp.com/album/toy-toy-toy
