Isadora from Inner Reaches to Outer Momentum: Dancing the Jungian Typologies Through the Labyrinth

Thursday, January 11th to Sunday, January 14th, 2024

Upon a sacred way in dancing steps our innate prima materia leads us cross the threshold…

Zoom Winter Study: Four-Day Intensive in the Technique and Choreography of Isadora Duncan with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. held live from Tempio di Danza

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Schedule:

Thursday, January 11th

4:00pm – 7:00pm (Hybrid)

Friday, January 12th

10:00am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

Saturday, January 13th

10:00am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

4:00pm – 7:00pm (Hybrid)

Sunday, January 14th

10:00am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

About the Course:

Isadora from Inner Reaches to Outer Momentum:

Dancing the Jungian Typologies Through the Labyrinth

“dance is the art that gives expression to the human soul through movement, but it is also the foundation of a complete conception of life” – ID

Isadora Duncan possessed the unique ability to live from a totality of human potential and perceive all beings as vitally comprised of essential aspects – that of the mind, body, heart and soul, never neglectful of spirit.  Her art constellates around these values calling for their re-emergence in individual inwardness, imagination and centeredness toward expression, expansion and wholeness. Among the first to permit herself the strong, gravitational pull of authenticity, she discovered a movement language of the soul. Through its’ inspirational and revelatory capacity, it continues to usher dancers on a truer, deeper and more complete life path.

Concurrently, to hone the self along the way, C.G. Jung conceived a language of typologies to offer a nomenclature on the differing, inborn personality types.  He created these typologies as unifying principles to aid in the integration of the self and the understanding of others. He identified two major personality ‘attitudes’ or frameworks for the process of living one’s destiny: from outward in; and from inward out – extroversion and introversion.  Additionally, he codified types into four psychological ‘functions’ of consciousness or modes of orientation to support clear and viable engagement with one’s inner and outer world.  They were the functions of thinking and feeling for the rational, organizing of indirect experience; and sensation and intuition for the non-rational, perceiving of direct experience.

Seamlessly within Isadora’s art these types are made visible. We find them, too, wherever hidden within the labyrinthine self upon the circuitous road of life. We shall meet them together at the Tempio reckoning with the powers of thinking, feeling, sensing and intuiting on inner and outer quests via personal and group movement exercises, tableaux vivants, vision poems, physical theater, dance technique and choreography. There we shall re-inherit these gifts through awareness into action allowing art’s subtle but cogent process the weight, space and time to flow into beauty’s possibility. Epiphanies on self and other, seen in a new light from a different perspective, wait to be revealed via Jung’s semi-scientific slant.  May within these embodied realizations, indecipherable secrets be given sense life that ‘the thoughts and feelings of the soul’ might brim with renewed vigor.  In Duncan works and those we forge as an ensemble, we continue the spiral dance to grasp how and why we are meant for this place, our world, and this time, 2024, reverencing and reveling in being here now.