Professional Activities CV

Mariko Tanabe

  • Certified Teacher and Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®
  • Infant Develpmental Movement Educator
  • Embodied Anatamy and Yoga Teacher
  • Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga Teacher
  • I.S.M.E.T.A Registered Somatic Movement Therapist #107378
  • I.S.M.E.T.A Registered Somatic Movement Educator #100192
  • Professional Member BMCA #1195 / Yoga Alliance Teacher RYT#64433
  • Professional Member Regroupement Québecois de la Danse
  • Web: www.marikotanabedanse.com Tel: (514) 842-3116

Professional Activities

  • Master Classes and Body-Mind Centering® Workshops
  • Concordia University – Dance Department
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton – Theatre Department
  • CEGEP – Saint Laurent – Montreal
  • Circuit Est Centre Chorégraphique – Montreal
  • Musik Akademy – Hengelo, Holland
  • Archdiocese of Quebec – Le Gesù, Villa St. Martin, Montreal – Laval University, Quebec, Longeuil, St.
  • Jerome Quebec
  • Columbia University Teachers College – PHD program, Villa St. Mary’s Villa, Sloatsberg, New York
  • Compagnie Par.B.L.eux – Montreal
  • Fabrication Danse – Montreal
  • Toronto Dance Theatre
  • Steptext dance project, Tanzwerk – Bremen, Germany
  • Somatic Movement Exploration Group – Toronto
  • Pfalzbau State Theater, Ludwigshafen,Germany
  • Spiritual Healing Family Constellation work with Ron Young – St. Lucie, QC, Asheville, North Carolina
  • Teaching at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM)
  • Director of BMCSM; Exploration Group at Université du Québec à Montréal – with undergraduate and
  • graduate students and faculty of the dance department – from Sept. 2013 to the present
  • Course in BMCSM; in the Graduate Somatic Education Program (DESS) 2011, 2013 and 2014
  • BMCSM; Laboratories for Undergraduate Dance Students – from 2007 to present
  • Teaching in Licensed International BMCSM; Training Programs
  • Somatic Movement Educator Training Program: The Endocrine System – SOMA, Paris, France November 2014
  • Somatic Movement Educator Training Program: The Fluids course
  • Practitioner Training Program: Sub cellular course – Kinesthetic Learning Center, Durham, NC July 2015
  • Artistic Mentor with Body-Mind Centering® with various choreogrphers including award-winning choreographer Benoît Lachambre, and Jean
  • Sebastian Lourdais, Helge Letgonja, Emmanuelle Calvé and Nika Stein
  • Choreographic Research Projects with Body-Mind Centering®
  • Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Dance Professionals 2005, 2007, 2014
  • Conseils des Arts et des Lettres du Québec – Grant for Research and Development 2007
  • These grants were awarded to support three choreographic research projects exploring Body-Mind
  • Centering® with the choreographic process, technical ability and performance skills with professional dancers and mentors Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and award-winning choreographer RoseAnne Spradlin
  • Presentations/Performances at North American and European BMCA Conferences
  • Performance of solo dance creations ‘For Her’’ and ‘Nuit Blanche’
  • Presentation of research : ‘Reproductive System as a Source for Creativity’, ‘Exploring My Somatic
  • Roots in Dance With Erick Hawkins,’
  • Browns Summit Conference Center – Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Skidmore Universtiy – Saratoga Springs, New York
  • Reed College – Portland, Oregon
  • Bijilokesite, Ghent, Belgium

Private Practice

  • Ongoing sessions with individuals of all backgrounds for improving health, stress management, injury prevention and well being.

Classes in Montreal

  • Regular classes and workshops
  • info : Facebook – Body-Mind Centering® Classes in Montreal

BMCSM Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) Activities

  • Private sessions with a child with special needs on a regular basis since 2008, and consultations with babies and their caregivers
  • BMCSM and Developmental Movement program for the faculty (11 teachers) of Infant/Parent swimming program

Continuing Education

  • Assisting at workshops with Founder of BMCSM; – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – Vancouver, Seattle, Madrid, Brussels, New York, Amherst, Berkeley – from 2007 – present
  • Visiting Teacher at IDME1 and IDME2 – Berkeley 2014-15
  • Attending BMCA Conference Presentations of Various Somatic Practices and Applications : Browns Summit Center, Greensboro, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, Reed College, Portland,
    Bijilokesite, Ghent, Brussels
  • Advanced Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen for BMCSM Teachers and Practitioners – New York

Info on BMCSM : www.bodymindcentering.com, www.bmcassociation.org,
infos en français : www.soma-france.org/fr