Dances by Isadora's members are currently teaching online. In this video Marie Carstens focuses on slow movements of the arms emanating from the solar plexus (Duncan's designation as the "center") and the series of body positions known as Tanagra Figures.
Marie Carstens, is a board certified dance movement therapist, certified movement analyst, licensed creative arts therapist (NY), licensed massage therapist (NY), dancer and choreographer. She trained classically in dance performance at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri- Kansas City, then received her Master’s of Science in Dance Therapy from Hunter College, City University of New York in 1996. Marie worked full-time as a dance/movement therapist and later as a clinical director at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, and then at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center until 2014. She continued dancing and choreographing throughout this time steeping herself in the work of early modern dance pioneer, Isadora Duncan. Marie attained a teaching certificate in Isadora Duncan Studies from the Isadora Duncan International Institute (1997) under the tutelage of Jeanne Bresciani. She subsequently studied and performed with Lori Belilove (Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation), with Lynn Armentrout with whom she created and co-directed the Duncan Dance Collective (2000-2010). Marie also performed for choreographers Michiyo Sato, Rina Rinkewich (Return of the Sun), in NYC and Paris, and from 2010 to present with Catherine Gallant (Dances by Isadora, NYC). Marie attained her Certification in Laban Movement Analysis from Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies International - an affiliate of the Laban Institute of Movement Analysis, in 2008. She left full time hospital-based work in 2014 to spend more time with her young daughters. She now balances motherhood with performance, private practice in dance/movement psychotherapy, in-home and group dance/movement therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease as well as massage therapy practice. She is also an adjunct lecturer at Queens College teaching Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy and Analysis of Dance/Movement.
10 апр 2020
