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Without Dance I Turn into a Frumious Bandersnatch
I have been out traveling – so it has been a while since I last time took time to write. Furthermore, I also needed to step back to let myself recover from my elbow injury from last year. Yet, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Ballet, embodiment, Florence, Future of Education, gender, Maribor, Music
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Angel in a Brown Suit: Business Ballet in Triumph and Disaster
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Ballet, Hochschule Heilbronn, NHL Stenden, Porvoo Campus
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Cast out from Courage: A letter to my dislocated elbow
”Our arms start from the back because they were once wings” (Martha Graham) Wing-broken due to a freak accident in Tallinn five weeks ago. I could fall into despair since at the moment I am unable to fly. Or, alternatively, … Continue reading
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Tagged dysappearing body, embodied awareness, silver swan
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The Sealed Room of the Heart – or Of Robots and Men
I borrow the first part of my title from Swedish actor and singer Thorsten Flinck’s song Hjärtats slutna rum – a song about a father and son not connecting. About a son standing mutely next to the sealed room of … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, arts pedaogy, authenticity, Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor, robotics
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Silenced by Shame – Reflections upon the Home in the Body Seminar II
Eeverybody else speaks so well. Aino has spent a year as exchange student in Kansas and Ilmo is an online game enthusiast. I’m the only one who isn’t fluent in English. I don’t speak well at all. I don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged Elämäntaidefoorumi, häpesästä hiljaiset, kotona kehossa seminaari, Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor
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Swimming into the Infinity Pool – how to give a successful sales pitch
A presentation is like swimming into an infinity pool; you don’t dive in with a splash, you don’t struggle to keep your head on the surface, you don’t panic when you cannot feel the bottom of the pool with your … Continue reading
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Tagged embodied awareness, Porvoo Campus, Sales Pitch Competition
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Business Ballet – Seriously?
“It was one of the best courses I’ve attended during my exchange and highly relevant for my future career. The course has a unique concept that is a must for every student that would like to improve his or her public … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Ballet, business skills, Dancing English Teacher, posture
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Coming Home to my Body
I am home. Home in my body. Listening into myself and simultaneously being aware of the people surrounding me, all of us taking part in the International Home in the Body seminar, Kotona kehossa at UKK Instituutti, Tampere. What has … Continue reading
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Tagged Essential Motion, Karen Roeper, kotona kehossa seminaari, Tampere
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Poetry of the Articulate Body: 2B + C= poor presence
Presence is a technique that can be learnt. The Swedish choreographer Helena Franzen calls this “poetry of the articulate body” – a controlled body being completely present in time and space. This autumn the timing for my Beam Me Up … Continue reading
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Tagged articulate, body, business, embodiment, sales
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A Pianist, a Hiphopper and a Prince: The Importance of Theater in a Business University
”If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.” (Sir Richard Branson). When the Director of Culture Center Grand, Porvoo asked whether Porvoo Campus … Continue reading
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Tagged Kulturhuset Grand, Porvoo Campus, Teater Svenska Rummet
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