MARGIT GALANTER, MA GCFP is a movement educator, arts investigator, and dance poet living in Oakland. Her unique practice, Physical Intelligence, helps people experience the innate clarity and vitality one can uncover through the potency of movement. Physical Intelligence incorporates Margit’s expertise as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm, acupressurist, qigong practitioner, and movement artist. Margit received an MA in Movement Research and Practice from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2004. She works privately with clients, teaches workshops, performs, and collaborates with practitioners from a wide range of media and disciplines.Margit’s rich background in movement informs the depth of the material she offers, and provides a comprehensive view of creative research and movement investigations. The primary forms she teaches include repatterning systems of The Feldenkrais Method® , acupressure and Five Elements Theory; dance investigations such as Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores, Release Techniques, and Contact Improvisation; and movement meditation forms such as qigong, Amerta Movement (Javanese improvisation of Suprapto Suryodarmo) and Contemplative Dance Practice. Margit was trained in the embodied theory of Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing and Philosophy of the Implicit, and apprenticed in dance with luminaries such as Karen Nelson, Suprapto Suryodarmo, Lisa Nelson, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Benoit LaChambre, Stephanie Skura, Daniel Lepkoff, and Steve Paxton. She lived in Indonesia for several years, where she taught at University of Gadjah Madah and studied martial arts, as well as traditional and contemporary dance, language and cultural studies. Margit stewards the lineages of the forms she practices and incorporates them into her tailor-made investigations.
Margit recently finished co-directing Earthdance, a unique dance workshop and retreat center in Western Massachusetts, where she revitalized their programming and community organization. In her tenure at Earthdance, Margit directed and co-founded several innovative forums, including the Harriet Tubman Healthy Living Project and SEEDS (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance, and Science – an interdisciplinary arts and ecology festival. Margit has collaborated as a dramaturg on performance projects, curated events such as the Movement Research Festival (NYC), and has worked extensively in the interdisciplinary arts and in social and racial justice movements.
Margit has taught extensively and presented around the U.S., including residencies at Mills College (CA), Naropa University (CO), University of Massachusetts-Amherst (MA), Macalaster College (MN), and in workshop forums such as Earthdance Retreat Center (MA), Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation (WA), Omega Institute (NY), and multiple venues locally and abroad. Her work has been presented nationally and often incorporates teaching, performing, private practice and lecture components. In California, Margit teaches at studios such as Kunst-Stoff Arts, YMCA-Oakland, Pieter Performance (LA), and Subterranean Arthouse.
Margit’s PI Practice: www.physicalintelligence.org. Her arts site: www.margitg.wordpress.com.
For more info, read Margit’s Resume.
