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:

• research in the studio

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

• teach open workshops in Contact Improvisation

• teach a variety of additional movement forms to performing arts students such as Improvisation For Performance, Authentic Movement and Experiential Anatomy

• teach professionals from other disciplines who see somatics as a complementary resource. I call this area of my work applied somatics

• make improvised performances

• study at the Theatre Academy of Finland (TEAK) - the idea is that I do an MA which will lead on directly to a PhD in the pedagogy department

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