Ms. Hayashi invites individuals and groups to discover their natural creativity as she guides them through a gentle, non-judgmental process of paying

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The Art of Making a True Move

Arawana's workshop in creative process, The Art of Making a True Move, has been presented in educational institutions, meditation centers, and organizational settings in the U.S. and Canada. In this workshop Ms. Hayashi invites individuals and groups to discover their natural creativity as she guides them through a gentle, non-judgmental process of paying attention to their own physicality and to their environment.

Dance History

Ms. Hayashi is a dancer, choreographer, and movement teacher with roots in Asian and Western arts. She began her dance training in classical ballet, culminating in studies with Nina Fonaroff in New York, and later trained at the Merce Cunningham Studio. She danced with Jamie Cunningham and Dancers in the early 1970’s and continues to appear in performances with Mr. Cunningham in “From the Horse’s Mouth.” She was on the faculty of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, the Massachusetts College of Art, and was Co-Director of the Dance Program of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Throughout her career she has been involved in interdisciplinary, ensemble improvisation. She founded the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981, and was its artistic director for nineteen years. The company performed both contemporary dance forms and bugaku, Japanese Court Dance. Ms. Hayashi has received choreography grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the LEF Foundation. She is a student of Suenobu Togi, formerly of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency Music Department in Tokyo. She is one of the foremost performers of bugaku today. She has also co-created outdoor community performances celebrating sacred spaces in both urban and rural environments.