Dancing the Stars Within:

The Twelve Astrological Signs in Archetypal Motion 

With Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. at Skidmore College

Thursday, January 16th through Sunday, January 19th

Beginning 2PM Thursday and ending on Sunday at 5PM.

A ‘Celebratory Performance’ will take place on Sunday, January 19^th at 3pm in the Skidmore Studio.

Optional Trip – Visit the artistic treasures of the Tang Teaching Museum on Saturday, January 18^th with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D., Kress Fellow in the History of Art, Clark Art Institute.

Open to all Dancer and Non-Dancer General Students and Candidates in The Certificate Program in Isadora Studies I: The Training

Includes 26 hours of CPI credit training with 2 hours of required reading.

Schedule:

Thursday

2pm – 5pm (Zoom & In-Person)

7pm – 9pm (In-Person Only)

Friday

9am – 12pm (Zoom & In-Person)

2pm – 5pm (In-Person Only)

Optional Session 7pm – 9pm (In-Person Only)

Saturday

9am – 12pm (Zoom & In-Person)

2pm – 5pm (In-Person Only with Trip to Tang Museum)

Optional Session 7pm – 9pm (In-Person Only)

Sunday

9am – 12pm (Zoom & In-Person)

 Resume 2pm for 3pm performance (In-Person Only)

Register Here!

About the Course:

In winter when a starry crest dominates the forces of nature, let us meet on the Zodiacal path of illumined splendor to evoke creative exploration. Enter, embodied, the dance of growth and generation amidst the signs’ language itself, acting as a vast cosmic lens to bear the deep energy structure of the primordial and eternal psyche. Dance to discern the unique archetypal powers of the 12 indwelling signs brimming with potentiality to circle in transcendent procession informing mundane reality. Capturing the spatial relevance of earth to sun and that of the individual’s place on earth in relation to the solar infusion of consciousness, intellect and divine mind, the signs constellate and we alloy to wholeness. Symbolizing where, when and how divine light is hidden in matter, the zodiac draws the affinity of celestial bodies streaming down  to earth. Signs become recognizable as bodily substance and their elixir tastes of star medicine. They harmonize rough passages and fierce currents into an alchemy of elements, modes of impetus and more. Rich in symbols calling up divine, human, animal and inanimate counterparts, they reunite us to lost powers. Relentless as the stars that shine, signs guide our mission as a lasting light when all other lights go out. For Egyptians they were one’s imperishable star; for the Greeks, site of eternal banishment or everlasting reward in the poignant night sky; and in the Renaissance they led to a signal star, all one’s own – a personal magnetic north.

We craft earth dances from the starry tier and its inspirational influx to identify and reclaim missing parts of ourselves, lost somehow in the space between. The dance steadies and frees us, fluid of body and focused of sight, to keep one foot on the ground and one eye on the stars. The zodiac’s energy to ground the foundations of personality, each in their turn, rounds out our purpose and clears obstacles to destiny. In glorious yet ordered array they coax a balance between earth and heaven inviting us fully into the dance that is our personal myth in practice. As a constellation of stars that tell of life and light, warmth, heat and radiance, each sign invites the dancer to serve as intermediary between the gods and men – recognized of old as the dancer’s true mission. We step into these signs that fill the earth’s aura and our houses of experience as into a theater of symphonic integration to bring both relish and polish to self, world and collective. Sharing our discoveries, we shall meet in performance on the concluding afternoon reflecting constellations above, in dance below.  And the sublime imprint for our blueprint upon earth shall go on.