Welcome to Move To Learn

My name is Malcolm Manning and I work as a somatic movement researcher, educator and artist. Sometime during the many years I have spent learning to move, I realised that I was in fact moving to learn, hence the name of this web site which first went online in 2000.

Movement is life and just about any situation can be analysed in terms of what moves, how, where, when and with what quality. I am fascinated by how people move and by how I move, both alone and in relation to others.

What I do is:

• work as part-time senior lecturer in the dance department of the Theatre Academy of Finland (TEAK) – around five months a year

• teach on, and contribute to the development of, the Dance And Somatics one-year course at ISLO in Joensuu, Finland – around six to eight weeks a year

• work as a Feldenkrais practitioner offering group Awareness Through Movement and one-to-one Functional Integration sessions in Helsinki

• teach workshops in Contact Improvisation

• teach movement exploration workshops called Awareness Perception Presence

• teach movement/dance composition workshops called Perceiving Choices

• Move to Learn
• Interests
• Background
• Movement forms that I teach and
  teachers who taught them to me
• Movement forms and
  teachers that influence my work