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.

Through studying Movement Fundamentals, I began to see more potential in myself and other human beings, and began to feel more open toward myself and others.

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.

I started to understand that dance is not just training my body to point my foot in a room. Jane urged us to bring our outside lives into dancing. She’s … truly interested in developing creative, accountable citizens who take responsibility for their own education. She gave us the license to find our own dance. My own body became a tool for dancemaking.

I cannot think of a day that I have not used my dance training since I began my studies. MF … taught me literally how to move more efficiently, not just artistically, but functionally, which translates to greater health and ultimately, greater longevity.