
Photo: Esther Maria Engelke
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