par Viva Wittman
The Stretching class I take with Dana Mussa is at once both calming and challenging. After nearly each exercise, we take the time respect the body, relaxing our muscles and allowing the ground to hold our weight. The other students are of various levels presenting a challenge which Dana takes on with ease; thanks to the attentiveness she bestows on each of us, there is not a single person in the room who isn’t working hard.
Dana tells me that she also teaches ballet and Ethno Ballet, a technique of her own making which mixes classical ballet and sacred dance. Sorry boys, but the technique is only for women 16 or older and is based on seven sacred female archetypes: the Hunts-woman, the Horsewoman, the Amazonian, the Shaman, the Priestess, the Queen, and the Goddess. |
In response to the question as to how her technique is pedagogically different from other Classical Ballet classes, she discloses that she explains more-so than she shows in order to justify the reason for every movement. “That’s the way to make progress,” she adds. Dana teaches her ballet and Ethno Ballet class in the 4th arrondissement (near to Centre de Danse du Marais where she teaches Stretching). She expresses that CDM is something very unique, “constructed by centuries.”
“It’s a place where I feel truly at home,” she adds.
“It’s a place where I feel truly at home,” she adds.
For more information on Dana’s classes: www.ethnoballet.com/fr/.
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