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2025, Summer MELT with Shelley Senter. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: 2025, Summer MELT with Shelley Senter. Photo by Rachel Keane.

MR FRIEND early access registration opens September 21, 2026.
Registration opens for the general public on September 28, 2026. 

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This workshop considers ideas and experiences of simplicity, language, control, paradox, imperfection, uncertainty and the use of the eyes. Working with the proposition that we are designed for movement and balance, readiness, and presence, we can engage our awareness to learn to trust this design. Developing conscious awareness and kinesthetic listening, we can learn to un-do or un-learn patterns of interference, creating opportunity for understanding how we use (or misuse) ourselves, for improving our coordination and functioning, and for promoting self-reflection and profound self-knowledge. The Alexander Technique highlights relationship and responsiveness – to self, to space and, most delightfully, to others. A critical practice of moving, perceiving and responding to the world consciously and creatively rather than habitually.

What to expect:
Please expect to be touched. The Alexander Techinique teacher uses touch to express that which words cannot. At times you may be asked to touch another and be touched by others in partners – this is always optional.
Expect to listen to and speak with the group. We learn together.
Expect to play with the idea of paying attention to one’s self while attending to others and vice versa.
Expect to lie on the floor.
Expect subtlety.

For MELT-related questions, please email melt@movementresearch.org.

 

Accessibility Notes

  • This workshop includes auditive guidance.
  • This workshop includes printed materials.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, MELT Shelley Senter” at least three (3) weeks prior to the first date of the workshop.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “MELT Shelley Senter.”

Register for this workshop

In-Person

    This workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $160-$250.

    Participants must register for the full workshop, there are no drop-ins.

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    Location

    The Bob (previously known as 9th St Studio)
    150 First Avenue
    New York, NY 10009

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    Artists

    Shelley Senter

    Shelley Senter

    SHELLEY SENTER is an independent dance artist and long-time Movement Research faculty whose work has been presented throughout North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, China, Russia and Australia.

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