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