"WE SEE DANCE AS A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BODY AND SOUL TO EXPRESS WHAT IS TOO DEEP TO FIND WORD"       "DANCE IT’S CHEAPER THAN THERAPY"       "HARD TIMES REQUIRES FURIOUS DANCING"       "STRESSED OUT DANCE IT OUT"       "DANCE IS MOTHER OF ALL ARTS"       "DANCE IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN TRULY EXPRESS MYSELF"       "DANCE ISN’T JUST DANCE. IT’S MAGICAL. IT’S SOMETHING THAT SETS YOU FREE"      .
The Rhythm Centre

Advisory Board

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For love and honour the guiding process of the board is to help us operate efficiently. Identifying the best people to staff The Rhytm Centre will be vital to our success. These people will be instrumental in building neccessary relationships to insert themselves into various international and national gatherings. We believe it's vital to attract amazing dance professional like you to the movement scene.

The Rhythm Centre movement advisory board will help support and mentor our dance movement training, etc. If you are interested in joining our advisory board, please express your interest, We'd love to have you moving ahead with us!! Contact us here...

 

 

 

 

Erica Rose Jeffrey

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I believe in the power of movement in building relationships and contributing to positive social change. I have had the opportunity to work internationally as a performer, choreographer and arts leader. I would consider myself a bit of a “Dance Activist.” Interested in the connections of dance, empathy and peace, I was selected as a Rotary World Peace Fellow and completed a Master’s at the University of Queensland, and continue to develop my research.

In coming to Australia I have been working to launch and build and national Dance for Parkinson’s Australia program. Involved in multiple communities, I am active with the Community Café Dialogues program, bringing people together across difference and I support the power of dialogue, whether spoken or artistic.

 

 

Liz Ivkovich

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Liz Ivkovich is currently working on her MFA in modern dance at the University of Utah as a University Teaching Assistant. She is a CLMA (Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst) who teaches an LMA/BF course for freshman dance majors at the U. She has studied under esteemed U faculty and guests including Pamela Geber-Handman, Stephen Koester, Sharee Lane, Andrea Miller, and Juan Carlos Claudio.

Prior to attending graduate school she was the Director of Administration for Word Made Flesh, an ecumenical Christian community development organization. During her time with Word Made Flesh she worked in human resources and financial management, and served as Interim Co-Executive Director. Liz has worked extensively with the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition, personally and as a facilitator and coach.

Liz founded and directed La Fuerza Dance at Omaha South High Magnet School. She was a founding member of Maya Taylor Dance, and served on a number of boards including omaha modern dance collective, ANSWER (American-Nepali Students and Women's Educational Relief), and Word Made Flesh.

Andrea Pack

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Andrea Pack is a graduate of University of Vermont with a B.S. in Neuroscience and minors in Applied Mathematics and Dance. She is currently working as a research assistant at University of Kansas Medical Center in a corticoplasticity lab, researching the reorganization of neurons after stroke or traumatic brain injury to the motor area of the brain. In January 2014, she became a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (LMA) through Integrated Movement Studies. Her goal is to create a marriage between neuroscience and movement and use the LMA technique as a rehabilitation method for people suffering from motor deficits caused by neurological disorders.

She enjoys exploring nature, traveling to new cultures, listening to live music and dancing around, and some may call her a sandwich connoisseur. Expression through movement has been extremely important in Andrea’s life. Movement has been her therapeutic outlet and a way to relate and understand her environment, whether that be people, nature, or objects. Moving through the LMA technique has opened her senses to take in the surrounding world and human interactions in a deeper and more meaningful way.