August 11 – August 13, 2023
co-sponsored by Mettler Studios and Noyes School of Rhythm
MORE INFO on Mettler Studios site
At the beautiful Shepard’s Nine of Noyes School of Rhythm 245 Penfield Hill Rd. Portland, Connecticut
Fee: $250
(includes 3 overnights 5 pm Friday through 11 am Monday)
Schedule:
Friday 7:30 pm Welcome and Orientation
Saturday 9 am to 3:30 am Mettler-based Dance (taught by Mary Ann Brehm)
Sunday 9 am to 3:30 am Noyes Rhythm (taught by Patricia Carhart Collins)
There will be a mid-day break for lunch and
plenty of time to explore the natural environment of Noyes School of Rhythm
Housing is in rustic cabins– most without electricity–and platform tents.
Full kitchen facilities available, bring your own food, bedding, flashlight or electric lantern, toiletries etc.
(If you prefer to pay by mail, complete the registration and mail check to
Mary Graham, Noyes School of Rhythm
610 St.Andrews Drive
Media PA 19063)
For information contact: mabdance@aol.com or p.carhart@verizon.net
Teachers Mary Ann Brehm and Patricia Carhart Collins (bio here)
are both veteran teachers in Mettler-based Dance or Noyes Rhythm respectively.
The workshop offers an experience of these distinct approaches in a natural environment
that supports the integral relationship to nature that each embodies.
Mettler Studios and Noyes School of Rhythm Workshop flyer
Mary Ann Brehm, PhD is a dance teaching artist/author focusing on creative, somatic
approaches to dance. President of Mettler Studios, she co-directs their Mettler-based Dance
Apprentice Program and Teacher Trainings in Tucson and for students in Indonesia and
Vietnam via Zoom. She is the author of Foundations of Barbara Mettler’s Approach to
Dance: Principles and Teaching Guidelines (2021) and co-author of Creative Dance and
Learning: Making the Kinesthetic Link. (2008, 2015).Mary Ann is also past president of
the International Association for Creative Dance. She has taught dance courses for several
universities, was a dance teaching artist in public schools for 20 years, and offers intensive
workshops throughout the United States or on Zoom. Her doctoral researched focused on
teaching principles of Margaret H’Doubler.
Patricia Carhart Collins is a Certified Noyes Teacher. She currently serves as a RhythmDirector and teacher for the Noyes School summer program. A past member of the Board of Directors for several terms, Patricia is currently a member of the Noyes Faculty Steering Committee. Her outreach work includes presenting on Noyes Rhythm at NDEO and NAEYC Conferences, and workshops at colleges and universities, and in community settings. Patricia was the Rhythm Director for the Noyes children’s program, where she taught theatre and Noyes Rhythm. Patricia holds a BA in the Performing Arts from Hampshire College, where she created and performed a one-woman show about the painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
