Uri Vardi
Professor of Cello, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Former Assistant Principal Cellist, Israel Chamber Orchestra
Former Principal Cellist, Israel Sinfonietta
Feldenkrais Practitioner®

Hagit Vardi
Feldenkrais Practitioner®, University of Wisconsin Hospital Integrative Medicine
Former Flutist, The Israel Kibbutz Orchestra

The purpose of this workshop is to help musicians become aware of the intimate relationship between the way that they use their body and the music that they create. The benefits of this enhanced awareness include an increase in artistic vocabulary, in the ability to efficiently express musical intention, in the prevention of pain and injury and in expedient healing from current injury.

This workshop draws on the principles of the Feldenkrais Method® and their immediate application to music making.

The workshop consists of:

• Awareness Through Movement lessons (Feldenkrais group lessons), which help the participants discover many new options of using their body.
• Masterclass Sessions in which the use of the body and its direct effect on sound and phrasing is explored.
• Feldenkrais Functional Integration Sessions (individual hand-on sessions).
• Lectures about the principles and philosophy of the Feldenkrais Method and its application to musical performance.
• Discussions about problems that the participants confront, and strategies to solve them.

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For further information and to scheduale a workshop please contact:
Your Body is Your Strad
10 S. Harwood Cir. Madison WI 53717
608 833 0537
uvardi@wisc.edu
hagit@harmoniousmovement.com
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