What do Flamenco and the Haka have in common? + Dance as a HEALING ART with Allison Pagano

Allison believes that dance is a universal art form with the power to heal and transform individuals and audiences when approached with mindfulness at the core of its process. Her background in Cultural Anthropology and world travel shape her perspective that 'all people are meant to express through dance'.

Allison has spent the past 22 years traveling, training, and teaching in major universities, hospitals, private dance and wellness studios working with groups and individuals to find healing, enhance performance qualities and support in life transitions through the dance, movement and the healing arts.

Allison's training at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Lismore and the University of Melbourne Australia have given her a solid background of understanding humanity through the ldance and holistic health. Allison has been a certified bodywork therapist and Reiki Master since 2000. Her yoga training was completed through Integrative Yoga Therapy (Brazil, 2005) and Wild Grace Arts (Olympia, WA, 2011). She holds certifications from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (NYC, 2006), the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America, (Hawaii, 2007) the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria, 2003), and the Simonson Method of Dance Teacher Training at Dance New Amsterdam (NYC, 2012).

Allison has studied and performed with the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, the Center for Modern Dance Education, University of Melbourne Dance Dept. Art of Motion, Ballet Northwest, Dance Theatre Northwest, The Barefoot Collective, and Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends. Her work has been featured in the Honolulu Star Bulletin, the Carve Your Body Fitness DVD series, Natural Awakenings Magazine, the Union Arts Center, the Garden State Opera, William and Hobart Smith College and Iona College.
She is a former lecturing professor at Iona College and former professor of dance technique at Manhattanville College. She completed her MFA in Dance through Montclair State University in 2018.
Her choreographic credits include Somatic dance festivals, Iona College, Hackensack Performing Arts Center, the Union Arts Center and the Garden State Opera.
She is a former lecturing professor at Iona College and former professor of dance technique at Manhattanville College.

She completed her MFA in Dance through Montclair State University in 2018.

Her choreographic credits include Somatic dance festivals, Iona College, Hackensack Performing Arts Center, the Union Arts Center and the Garden State Opera.
Embodied Dance was born out of a desire to fill in the gaps in dance training where the mind body connection is often missing as well as to provide a holistic approach teaching to and from the WHOLE PERSON.

This method seeks to provide experiences using dance as a HEALING communicative tool to explore how we interpret, address and envision what it means to be human; evolving and responding to our changing times.

Allison’s Links:
Website: www.embodied-dance.com
IG - https://www.instagram.com/embodied.dance/
FB- https://www.facebook.com/allison.pagano.1
Private group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1121736581492069