Movement Fundamentals Institute

I’ve been affected mind, body, and soul by the Movement Fundamentals curriculum, and I carry with me a knowledge that our bodies are our truest homes.

With the new and exciting exploration of movement I have begun to dive into with my body, I have started to free my mind from restriction.

Mentally I have become more confident in my dancing and just being who I am. I have started to learn to accept that it is okay to not be okay all the time.

Using the Movement Fundamentals Tenets and Practices while inhabiting a body of blackness, womanness, and chronic illness, a liberated and embodied activism emerges.

My experience of the Movement Fundamentals dance curriculum wholly transformed my perceptions of movement, the body, art, and my own existence.

The Movement Fundamentals approach Jane has developed for training dancers from the inside out creates integrated, thoughtful humans in addition to amazing movers.

I also just wanted to say that post-college, I’ve continued to stay involved in contact improvisation and other dance things around the Twin Cities and I wanted to thank you again for all your efforts you bring to the dance program at Luther. Perhaps some of the most valuable lessons I have learned have been through dance and I’m really grateful for you, and the groundwork your classes laid for this continuous learning process.