About - Light Bodies

About LightBodies

Lightbodies is about a deeper movement experience. It is about embodying our relationship with space, that is, the world around us, and how we create a sense of time through how we choose to move. In exploring, we push our perceptual boundaries of what is real, and thus, expand our sense of living — we evolve.

This is not about wearing cute outfits, or a flexibility contest, or the corporatization and dogmatization of movement practices for personal gain.

Lightbodies is about the expression of our embodied experience in the world, and the sense that how we choose to move creates our subjective sense of time. Through the play of embodied perceptual expression, we evolve, as human beings. This is my hope and it is what I love.

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Dr. Mary Hill

2003

January 1

Studied Stott Pilates full equipment method

Studied Stott Pilates full equipment method, Body/Mind Design, Dallas, TX

2001

January 3

Doctorate

Doctorate, Dance History/Education; Excellence in Scholarship Award; Women’s Studies Teaching Accreditation, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.. Received a scholarship and Teaching Assistantship. Taught advanced levels of Ballet and Modern Dance while researching and attending scholastic classes. Received the first Excellence in Scholarship Award in the Temple University Dance Department. Dissertation Title: Postmodern Reflections On Dance Modernism: Modernist Currents Of Primitivism, Dimensionality And The Artist As Seer On Martha Graham’s “Heretic”, “Lamentation”, And “Primitive Mysteries”.

January 2

Prajna Yoga, Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM

Prajna Yoga, Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM.. 200 hour Yoga teaching accreditation, 450 hours Yoga Therapeutic training with Master teacher, Tias Little and his wife, Surya Little.

January 1

Opened my first Pilates studio

Opened my first Pilates studio, “Space Sense Pilates Studio”, the same week as I received my doctorate. Decided to leave behind the Critical Theory grid that had overlayed much US University academia and politics and, in my experience, had stifled new knowledge and creativity, as a result.

2000

January 1

Lilith of the Lake

1999

January 1

Pilates Body/Mind Method Teaching Accreditation

Pilates Body/Mind Method Teaching Accreditation, Fort Worth, Zoe Pierce and Santa Fe, NM.. Taught Pilates at Dancescape Studio while finishing Doctorate.

1998

January 1

Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, University of New Mexico

Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, University of New Mexico.
Presented paper, “The Influence of Dimensionality on Martha Graham’s Dance Expression”.

1997

February 1

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art, presentation on Martha Graham’s Early Dance Expression

January 1

Book Review, Frank’s, “Dancing Modernism, Preforming Politics;”

-1997, 1998, 2001 Book Review, Frank’s, “Dancing Modernism, Preforming Politics;”. Presentations, Society of Dance History Scholar’s Conferences:
-1997, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, “Ambiguity Materialized, the Influence of Sigmund Freud on Martha Graham’s Early Dance Expression,”
-1998, University of New Mexico, “The Influence of Dimensionality on Martha Graham’s Lamentation and Primitive Mysteries;”
-2001. Washington, DC, Dancing In the Millenium, “The Spatialization of Musical Dissonanace; The Musical Theories of Horst, Rudhyar, The Sculptural Theories of Gabo, With Undercurrents of the Influence of Ouspensky on Martha Graham’s Early Dance Practice.”

January 1

Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, University of Oregon

Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, University of Oregon. Presented paper, “Ambiguity Materialized: Primitivism, Freud, Graham, and the Ritual of the Modern”.

1995

January 1

Temple University Philadelphia PA

Temple University Philadelphia PA – Awarded doctoral teaching assistantship in the dance history department doctoral program

1993

January 1

Moving Theatre Images, Boston, MA

Office/Contact

5800 Edwards Ranch Road
Bldg 1, Suite 200
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Email: mary-lightbodies@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 817 731-1133

Lightbodies

5800 Edwards Ranch Road
Bldg 1, Suite 200
Fort Worth, TX 76109