Adaptive BrainDance (Summer)

Adaptive BrainDance (Summer)

Children & Teens | This class is completed

Ages: 13+ Teens and Adults

7/6/2023-8/3/2023

5:30 PM-6:30 PM PDT on Th

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$100.00 USD

Adaptive BrainDance is for students of all abilities/disabilities. This creative dance class is filled with mindful support and open spaces to develop body awareness and experience social-emotional learning. The neurodevelopmental movement patterns of the BrainDance bring focus to our bodies and minds. We celebrate personal creativity and uniqueness as we navigate movement together. There are opportunities in class to reflect, share, and participate in active, ongoing conversations about how our bodies individually experience movement. We collectively investigate dance as an internal and external experience using supportive language, images, storytelling, and visualization to guide us. Participants are welcome to bring support in the form of family or staff to aid their participation.

  • This class is being taught in person.  Students should wear comfortable clothes to move in.  
Wilson, Bri

Bri Wilson (she/her) was raised in Petoskey, Michigan where she started dancing at age seven under the instruction of Heather Raue, Karrie Benedict, and Stephaine Cope. She earned her BFA in Dance from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California, and supplemented her collegiate training with intensives at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Movement Invention Project. Since moving to Seattle in 2018 she has worked with Elia Mrak, The Three Yells, Beth Terwilleger + The Gray, and performed in Converge Dance Festival, 12 Minutes Max, Soft Concrete I, and Next Fest Northwest.

Nyland, Joel

Joel has been dancing since age 3 and has been a leader in our Adaptive Dance program since it began. Joel shares: "I am a twenty year old dancer and songwriter.  I have danced mostly in my imagination my whole life because my brain functions differently and my body does not follow its instructions. I love helping others see the power of dance." A daily advocate for the spelling community, Joel is a “Spellebrity Ambassador” for the International Association for Spelling as Communication (I-ASC). Joel has performed his original songs in the Neurolyrical Café and at Boards & Chords. His first full album Presume Competency featuring Joel’s songs with contributions by Caden Rainey is available on Amazon Music and iTunes.