SUMMER SOMATICS SERIES
2025 Schedule
Weekly Somatic Movement Workshops
May 17 – June 16, 2025
The Grandel (Ballroom)
3610 Grandel Square, St. Louis, MO 63103​
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Karlovsky & Company Dance addresses the needs of bodymind
health, self-care, and opportunities for professional development
through our annual SUMMER SOMATICS SERIES of weekly
somatic movement workshops.
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Restore | Balance | Energize
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2025 Workshop Schedule
Saturday, May 17 - 10:30am - Noon:
Authentic Movement with Sarah Anne Patz
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Saturday, May 24 - 10:30am - Noon:
The Sensing Body: Movement, Presence, and Communication
with Dawn Karlovsky
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Saturday, May 31 - 10:30am - Noon:
Patterns that Underlie our Everyday Movement
with Mary Ann Rund
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Monday, June 2, 6:30pm-8pm:
Moving Meditations:
Creativity through Subtle Energy Transformation
with Beckah Reed
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Monday, June 9, 6:30pm-8pm:
A Somatic Approach to Settling Your Nervous System
with Elise Harowitz
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Monday, June 16, 6:30pm-8pm:
Restorative Pilates Foam Roller with Emilee Morton
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The Summer Somatics Series provides weekly somatic movement
classes with the aim to help movers of all types
discover new practices for deepening your movement
experiences, enriching performance skills, enhancing
sensory awareness, and attending to self-care.
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For movers of all types - 16+ and mature movers.
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Somatic education contributes to improved awareness and
movement integration to experience more ease, comfort,
and confidence. A different somatic practice is featured each
week and presented by teaching specialists who are certified
instructors in their respective field.
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Karlovsky & Company Dance is thrilled to collaborate with
these amazing local teachers and to provide you with a taste
of these invaluable somatic movement experiences.
These classes are appropriate for all movement levels and can
be adapted for individual needs. They are most suited for
adult populations; however, older teens under 18 years old
are welcome when accompanied with a parent or guardian.
Questions? Contact Dawn Karlovsky, founder and artistic director
of Karlovsky & Company Dance | 314-283-1851 or
email us at: info@karlovskydance.org
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Below are class descriptions for 2025
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Authentic Movement Class with Sarah Anne Patz
Authentic Movement is a contemplative, somatic practice rooted in the expression of movement and the development of inner witness consciousness. Participants in this session will explore the body, mind, and spirit connection through mindful movement in a safe, non-judgmental space. Guided by the principles of presence and deep listening, movers are invited to follow inner impulses without external direction, while witnesses observe with compassionate awareness. Both mover and witness will have an opportunity to reflect on the experience. This practice nurtures
personal insight and creative unfolding, offering a path toward self-discovery, and embodiment.
Sarah Anne Patz has over four decades of experience teaching dance and movement arts for students at the preschool, elementary, and college level. She works as a Teaching Artist in the St. Louis Public Schools through Springboard to Learning. Her current programs are "Moving With Character" for students in grades K-3, and the Wolf Trap Arts Integration program, a professional development for preschool educators. For the past 30 years, Sarah Anne has been the Creative Movement Specialist at Kol Rinah Early Childhood Center. She co-directed Off Track Dancers, a post-modern dance company, and has taught as adjunct faculty in the Dance and Somatic programs at Washington University. Sarah Anne offers workshops in Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement throughout the area. She holds a BA in Dance with K-12 Education Certification, an MA from Lesley University, and a certificate in Contemplative Dance.
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The Sensing Self: Movement, Presence, and Communication with Dawn Karlovsky
Drawing from the principles of the Alexander Technique and contact improvisation, this workshop invites participants to explore the subtleties of communication and expression through the awakening of the senses and the power of gentle touch. What do we share and receive through touch? How do we listen, respond, and communicate without words?
Participants will be guided to experience the body not only through physical sensation but also through mindful awareness and thoughtful intention. We will integrate AT skills of inhibition - such as pausing, non-doing, and deep listening - with directed attention, personal expression, and relational awareness. Through playful exploration, we will awaken our senses and deepen our connections, discovering the harmony of a responsive, expressive body in dynamic relationship with others.
Dawn Karlovsky is the Founder and Director of Karlovsky & Company Dance, a contemporary modern dance-theater company based in St. Louis, MO. Her choreography has been commissioned and presented by universities and companies both nationally and internationally, with credits including Le Théatre du Rouret and Cie Haute Tension in France, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and New World Dance Theatre in South Africa. She recently served as an Artist in Residence at Moulin Belle in France and will soon embark on a company tour to perform in Slovakia.
Dawn is a nationally certified teaching member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) since 2004. Dawn is currently serving as Chair of AmSAT's Committee for the Alexander Technique in the Performing Arts (CATPA). She teaches The Alexander Technique at Washington University as part of the Somatic Studies Certificate Program, and in the Department of Dance at Webster University in St. Louis where she teaches modern dance, dance composition, dance history, and the Alexander Technique for performing artists in dance, music, and theater; fostering a holistic approach to movement and creativity. www.karlovskydance.org
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Patterns that Underlie our Everyday Movement with Mary Ann Rund
Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) are a series of automatic movement sequences that progress from simple to complex in humans. These normally and naturally emerge and integrate through infancy creating patterns which inform and build our movement, physical, perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes. This foundation not only guides our interactions with gravity and space, particularly important to dancers, but supports the discovery and rediscovery of our sense of self, our relationship to others and our environment.
This workshop will explore the pre-vertebrate (non-spinal) patterns: vibration, cellular breathing, sponging, pulsation, navel radiation, mouthing and prespinal. First as internal movement, then external movement and finally as locomotive, we will work as individuals and with partners to reconnect with and embody these underlying patterns which provide us with richness and fullness of being, as internal sensation and outward expression. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering® says, “BNP form the underlying words and phrases in the language of human movement.”
Mary Ann Rund (aka Reis) has taught dance and somatic movement for several decades in St. Louis. Former performer and choreographer, Mary Ann is intrigued by the potential for expression in all ages and stages of life. With a BS in Biology
and a BA and MFA in dance, she decided to indulge her curiosity of somatic disciplines and chose Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) as a focus of study and practice, completing certifications in Somatic Movement Education (SME) and
Infant Development Movement Education (IDME). Mary Ann currently sees private clients, teaches some Saturday mornings for the Community Modern Dance class and indulges in the experiences of movement in varied environments such as river and ocean, field and forest, mountain and mudbank. Feel free to contact her at marund@att.net
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Moving Meditations: Creativity through Subtle Energy Transformation with Beckah Reed
Creativity--Through guided imagery, breath, qigong techniques, movement, stillness, sound, silence, journaling/drawing/writing, one focuses attention, to relax and manifest… The movement is both structured and improvisational with as much, or as little, activity as each person desires.
Wear some orange if you can! Get the juices flowing!
The objectives of working with the embodiment of subtle energy are to:
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Reinforce your intentions for life through creativity
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Move your energies to relax, reconfigure with ease and invigorate
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Encourage, allow, listen, and connect to the wisdom of the body
Beckah Reed taught in the Department of Dance at Webster University for over 37 years and served as artistic director of ANNONYArts, Wishbone Dance Theatre and co-artistic director of GASH/VOIGT Dance Theatre. Her love of movement has taken her to communities across the globe, focusing on connection, expression and humanistic issues. Beckah’s decades of international modern dance performance, choreography, improvisation, meditation, qigong, taiji, reiki, Continuum and somatics research, provide her with a passionate perspective of life and health. She finds joy in the dance of subtle energy! beckahreed.com
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A Somatic Approach to Settling Your Nervous System with Elise Harowitz
Need a moment to reconnect with your body and find calm? This class invites you to explore nervous system regulation through mindful movement. Elise will draw from her expertise in Somatic Experiencing to guide you through sensory experiences designed to deepen body awareness and self-settling. Using both individual and partner-based practices, we’ll focus on intrapersonal and interpersonal connections to ground and regulate. This inclusive, trauma-informed class welcomes all movement abilities. Come prepared to gently move, relax, and reconnect as we use movement and touch to support your nervous system.
Elise Harowitz is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with a deep passion for the mind-body connection. She holds a BFA in Modern Dance and continues to dance, choreograph, and teach with Karlovsky & Company Dance alongside her therapeutic work. Elise earned her Master’s in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling, and has experience working in residential treatment, inpatient hospitals, and outpatient settings. In 2023, she founded Embodied Pathways, a private practice specializing in somatic and expressive therapies. Elise believes in the transformative power of movement for emotional, psychological, and physical well-being.
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Restorative Pilates Foam Roller with Emilee Morton
This class uses gentle rocking exercises that bring mobility and spring to your body. The soft foam roller is used to increase the flow of fluid in your connective tissue, increasing hydration and overall ease of movement. Whether you move a little or a lot, this experience of gentle movement will increase the overall organization of your body and enhance your awareness. All you need is your mat and a foam roller.
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Some soft foam rollers and yoga mats will be provided. If you have your own soft foam roller and mat, please bring it to class with you. Here is an example of a soft density roller.
Emilee Morton (she/her) graduated in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point with a BA in Dance and Arts Administration. She is thrilled to perform in her ninth season with Karlovsky & Company Dance where she's had the opportunity to work in collaborative dance projects in the US and abroad. Currently, Emilee is a full-time Pilates instructor and Movement Specialist at St. Louis City Fitness. She is a Balanced Body Pilates certified instructor and has been teaching movement for people with diverse abilities since 2012. Emilee continues her education with a variety of trainings:Level 1 Precision Nutrition Coach, OOV Fundamentals and OOV on Pilates Apparatus with Dr. Loribeth Cohen, OOV Level 2/3 Afferent/ Efferent with Daniel Vladeta, Pilates and Dance Specialization with Dr. Suzanna Martin, Level 1 Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) with Jeff Branhall, Immaculate Dissection: Core Concepts with Dr. Kathy Dooley, McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release (MSTR®) with Cyndi George.