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.
Dr. Mary Hill
Timeline
Studied Modern Dance at Tanz Forum, Cologne, West Germany
Studied Modern Dance at Tanz Forum, Cologne, West Germany
Mary Hill 1974-1979
Southwest Reginal Ballet Association and Festival
Southwestern Regional Ballet Association Craft of Choreography Conferences
Southwestern Regional Ballet Association Craft of Choreography Conferences, Scholarships, University of Brockport, Brockport, NY, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
Hosted Southwest Regional Ballet Festival
Hosted Southwest Regional Ballet Festival.
The next day after the festival, a category 5 tornado destroyed half the city of 100,000 people. It was the largest tornado ever recorded at that time.
Apprentice WFBT
Apprentice WFBT
Began Ballet training in the Vaganova technique
Began Ballet training in the Vaganova technique with Irina Kladivova Pal and Frankteczech Karhanak Pal, WWII refugee principle Central European dancers. They were in the 1942 Leipzig, Germany production of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, choreographed by Mary Wigman, famed German Modern Dance pioneer.
Began Ballet training
Began Ballet training
Vaganova technique with Irina Kladivova (Pal) and Franckteczech Karhanak (Pal), WWII refugee principle dancers in Central Europe and Germany, danced with German Modern Dance pioneer, Mary Wigman, and were in the first production of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” 1938, Berlin. Established Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre in alliance with Southwestern Regional Ballet Association in US.
Born
Born
Office/Contact
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