2011

Clinic/ Workshop for Equestrians and Dancers

October 1-2, 2011
Johnson, VT

At the height of fall foliage, The Equus Projects returns to Vermont to teach a Clinic/Workshop designed to explore the creative dialogue between dancers and equestrians.

Sessions will include movement investigations and horsemanship sessions that are designed to investigate the commonalities between dancing and horsemanship. The horse becomes the teacher. Dance sessions will be conducted at the Johnson State College dance studios. Equine sessions will be held at The Center for America's First Horse.

The Equus Projects Artistic Director JoAnna Mendl Shaw and company dancers will  teach the movement sessions. Shaw and equestrian Stephanie Lockhart will co-teach the horsemanship sessions.

Dancers Intensives - June & July 2011

June 20-24th & July 4th-8th
NYC & Rhinebeck, NY

THE EQUUS PROJECTS
TWO Dancers Intensives
June 20-24th  and July 4th-8th

Exploring Choreographic Necessity
Dancing in Real Time

The Equus Projects dancers have combined their knowledge of horse behavior with agile improvisational skills to develop a unique and dynamic approach to choreography and performance.

The Dancers Intensive begins with two days of studio time at the Ailey Studios in NYC, then continues in Rhinebeck, NY with two days of basic equine ground skills training with horses.

The workshop concludes with a final studio day in NYC with the natural horsemanship skills transformed into choreographic works.

Information and Registration
jmsnyc@aol.com
www.dancingwithhorses.org

Enrollment limited to 10 participants per session

Fee: $500 per session Each session 5 days Meals and housing included NOTE: Transportation to/from Rhinebeck is not included. Transport from Rhinebeck train station provided.

Clinic with David Lichman and The Equus Projects

May 25th & 26th
Bristol, VT

David Lichman
Elderberry Farm/Holistic Horsemanship Center
Lincoln, VT ~ May 25-29th

 
Guest Teachers ~ The Equus Projects Dancers
 
Clinic ~  May 25th & 26th
Privates ~ May 27th
Clinic ~ May 28th & 29th
Levels 2, 3 and Level 4
 
David Lichman 
Has tons of knowledge about horses and horsemanship, has his unique approach to teaching Parelli and combines learning and having fun!
 
The Equus Projects
Brings information about Body awareness, exercises for building strength, a Brain Gym warm-up for getting intuition and thinking integrated and fun Improvisation techniques for creating partnership (with horses and humans)
 
Cost 
Two-day clinic $525 ( Limited to 9 riders)
Privates ~ $150  per hour
Semi-private ~ $100  per hour
Auditors welcome ~ $35 per day

Boarding and facility use ~ $20/day   (This excludes hay)
Home grown hay provided for  $5/day
 
Reserve with a $150.00 non-refundable deposit
If you need to cancel, find a complete replacement and receive a deposit refund
 
Reservations
Contact : Marilyn Ganahl ~ elderberryfa@aol.com
 
http://www.davidlichman.com
www.dancingwithhorses.org
Forward email
     

Leading from you Core: A Leadership Training Workshop

July 14 – 16, 2011
Woodinville, WA

Leading from Your Core™
Develop the physical presence to lead effectively
A Workshop presented by ~ ROAM Consulting

Dates
July 14 – 16, 2011
9 am – 5 pm each day

Location
Woodinville, Washington

Facilitators ~ Amanda Madorno and JoAnna Mendl Shaw

Amanda Madorno, Owner/Principal for Roam Consulting, specializes in developing leadership competencies in executives, senior leadership teams, and boards of directors. She has more than 20 years experience as an executive coach, leadership consultant and planning facilitator. Amanda speaks nationally at Leadership Institutes around the country, and serves as faculty for Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Washington. An accomplished and lifelong horsewoman, Amanda is an Approved Instructor in Equine Experiential Learning. Her specialized programs put leaders, work teams, and horses together to make breakthroughs in their leadership skills and competencies. Amanda’s equine partners, Phoxx, Roo, Cato, and Guinness, are each outstanding in their field.

JoAnna Mendl Shaw, Founder/Director of The Equus Projects is a nationally acclaimed faculty member at Juilliard and Alvin Ailey, and a choreographer whose company creates performance works partnering dancers with horses. Shaw and her dancers are all trained in natural
horsemanship. Their work with horses has led them to develop a movement practice that is committed to deepening the human capacity for physical listening. They translate the tools for creating effective engagement with an equine partner into tools for creating dynamic choreography and movement for humans.

The Workshops
Join Amanda Madorno, her herd of horses, and JoAnna Mendl Shaw of The Equus Projects for three memorable days exploring movement, energy, and intention.Discover the elements of physical presence that you need to speak and lead with authenticity and trustworthiness. You’ll engage directly with horses to explore space and boundaries, psychology, and energies that are integral to effective leadership and partnership.

Leadership & Horses
Horses are constantly attuned to their environment in order to survive. Leaders read their environment to learn what’s going on. Like horses, people read each other energetically —we call it gut sense or instinct — to form their impressions. Effective leaders have a believable physical presence that adds credibility to their leadership.

This workshop is part of the Leadership Mastery Program through the Way of the Horse
www.roamconsultingllc.com/leadership_mastery.html

Cost:   $1395

Workshop questions
amanda@roamconsultingllc.com
425-488-7747 www.roamconsultingllc.com

No horse experience required. Limited space - register early

This workshop is part of the Leadership Mastery Program through the Way of the Horse
www.roamconsultingllc.com/leadership_mastery.html

Interdisciplinary Workshop in Johnson, VT

March 18-20, 2011
Johnson, Vermont

The Equus Projects ~ Interdisciplinary Workshop in Johnson, VT
March 18-20, 2011

The Center for America’s First Horse
Presents “Dancing With Horses” in Vermont
An Interdisciplinary Workshop In The Heart Of The Green Mountains
Johnson, VT

New York City-based choreographer JoAnna Mendl
Shaw, founder of The Equus Projects http://www.dancingwithhorses.org/ joins Vermontbased
Natural Horsemanship professional Stephanie Lockhart to lead “Dancing With
Horses,” an extraordinary 3-day workshop grounded, in the shared principles of dance
and natural horsemanship, on March 18-20, 2011.
Instruction will take place inside the arena at The Center for America’s First Horse,
http://www.centerforamericasfirsthorse.org/, and at the dance department studio at
Johnson State College, both located in Johnson, Vermont. Space is limited to 15
individuals, and auditors are welcome and encouraged. No prior dance or horsemanship
experience is necessary. The fee is $225 per individual and $100 to audit the 3-day
workshop, lunch included.

Under the guidance of Mendl Shaw and Lockhart, participants will engage directly with
horses to explore various spatial, psychological, and energetic concepts integral to the
development of effective improvisation and partnership. Material learned from the horses
will then be transferred to the studio and explored more deeply among the dancers.
Registration applications and other information are available online or contact Stephanie
Lockhart, Stephanie@centerforamericasfirsthorse.org, 802-730-5400.

The Center for America’s First Horse, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by
Stephanie Lockhart and located in Johnson, Vermont. Home to the most diverse group
of Colonial Spanish horses in the eastern United States, the center’s mission is to
enrich lives through the spirit of the Colonial Spanish horse. The Center
offers programs focusing on education and public awareness, natural horsemanship,
community outreach, work-study and rescue of Colonial Spanish horses.
Like the buffalo, the Colonial Spanish Horse has served many of America's native tribes
for centuries, and is now listed as critically endangered with only 3,000 remaining
worldwide. Brought to the New World by Spanish explorers in the 1500's, these small,
hardy horses were used as courageous war horses, the mounts of the Native
Americans, and Pony Express riders. By the turn of the 20th century, they were near
extinction, due in large part to U.S. government attacks on feral and sacred tribal herds.
Today, preservation efforts are underway to secure the Colonial Spanish horse for future
generations.

Informational Links
The Center for America’s First Horse: http://www.centerforamericasfirsthorse.org
Stephanie Lockhart: http://www.centerforamericasfirsthorse.org/board-of-directors.html
JoAnna Mendl Shaw: http://www.dancingwithhorses.org/mission.php

Registration: Click HERE

Johnson State College: www.jsc.ed

2010

Exploring Energy States

August 7 - 8, 2010
Sammamish, WA

The Equus Projects with Randee Fox

will present a weekend clinic that will help equestrians and dancers to:

• Deepen your physical listening skills
• Show you how to experience and modulate different energy states
• Broaden your concept of leading and following
• Explore all of the above when moving with human and equine partners

To register, email Randee Fox or call: 425-868-3475

Fee: $275 / Full clinic, Saturday and Sunday $150 / Saturday Only $50 / Auditing Sunday Only

Physical Listening: A Clinic for Riders (and Dancers)

July 30 - 31, 2010
Livingston, Montana

The Equus Projects with Margot Doohan offer a clinic on Physical Listening.

Discover a physicality that truly communicates with your horse.

Learn tools for expanding your range of expressive movement.

Email Margot Doohan for a complete registration form (margot@starwindinc.com)

For further information call The Equus Projects at 212-925-1336 or Email joannamendlshaw@gmail.com

Fee: $450 / Riders $350 / Unmounted Participants $100 (per day) / Auditors Send Checks to: Margot Doohan 1106 West Park Street, #235 Livingston, MT 59047

Bozeman Montana Workshop

July 29, 2010
Crazy View Studio, Bozeman, MT

This unique and creative clinic is for anyone interested in exploring and enhancing their physicality with horses. The use of horses in this work is aesthetically beautiful and inspiring but most of all immensely revealing. Horses provide an instant "mirror" to how you use energy in the world. The morning will be spent in the studio and afternoon in the arena with horses.

For more information and to make a reservation

Call:  406-686-9161 

EMAIL

www.katherinekramer.com

Fee: $150.00

NYC Dancers' Intensive - NEW FORMAT!

June 7-9th, 2010
New York, NY & Rhinebeck, NY

 The Equus Projects is hosting its 7th annual Dancers Intensive in NYC

For Information & Registration
JoAnna Mendl Shaw 
joannamendlshaw@gmail.com
212-924-1336

The 2009 Dancers Intensive

Imagine a dance class that prepared you to perform in a 1000 seat arena. Imagine learning movement phrases for which every action had an outcome. Imagine devising choreographic scores that effectively communicates with a 1,200 lb equine partner. 
The Equus Projects company of ancers have all trained in equine ground skills. The movement language they have developed is an elegantly task-based dance language that is both functional and expressive . They use their knowledge of horse behavior to create agile improvisational skills and choreographic scores.

They do not just dance along side horses. They engage in fluid and expressive movement dialogues with equine partners. In their 6-day clinic thy share this unique language and dynamic system of dance making.

Studio session is Monday, June 7 ALL DAY in NYC

Equine sessions are June 8, 9 ALL DAY in Rhinebeck, NY.  Transportation and housing is provided.

Here's what people are saying: 
"The idea of being physically in the moment is with me daily."
Lindsay Carleton, Dancer
2005 Dancers Intensive

"Thank you for the opportunity to experience this deep work."
Ara Fitzgerald, Dancer
2007 Dancers Intensive

"It has been a wonderful experience dancing with horses and analyzing partnerships."
Nejla Yatkin, Dancer
2007 Dancers Intensive

"(This work) promoted tapping into a deep reverence for the beauty of nature and the authenticity animals allow us to share with them, if we only will and can."
Karen Scherwood, Dancer
2008 Dancers Intensive Participant

"I am impressed (with) how your approach to working with the horses brings out certain qualities in humans and horses that transcend fixed patterns of horse/man interactions. It warms my heart to see how much you respect the horse as well as the dancer."
Maura Lee, Dancer
2008 Dancers Intensive Participant

"This was an experience I will never forget and never let go of. I hope to have the chance to grow in this movement and to be able to share it with others."
Lori Baker, Linguist, Dancer, Equestrian
2008 Dancers Intensive Participant

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Fee information coming soon.

Email JoAnna, jmsnyc@aol.com, to learn more and receive updates about this clinic.

Performance Project: Aubrey, TX

May 22-23, 2010
Aubrey, TX

Join The Equus Projects and experience an exciting and unique clinic for Riders with horses and Dancers!  The clinic will focus on the creative process of how a site specific performance work is created.

Riders will learn to ride with dancers in tandem.  

Dancers will learn to dance with a ridden horse.

Each participant will have the extraordinary experience of working with fellow riders and dancers!

This two day clinic will be divided into two sessions as follows:

Day One at The Firehawk Ranch:

Learning the basics

Explore possibilities

Day Two at the XO Ranch:

Bring your skills onto the performance site

Participate with the creative team 

The XO Ranch Project will premiere an original site specific work of The Equus Projects on May 29th, participants in the clinic will attend the performance as our guest!

REGISTRATION:

To Register for the Clinic, email Jeannette Wright  or call (972) 345-2718

QUESSTIONS:

If you have questions, please email The Equus Projects.  JoAnna Mendl Shaw

Fee: Day I & II / $300 * Day I Only / $170 * Auditors / $25

Finding the Dance

April 10-11th, 2010
Palmyra, PA

Learn how to better match your horse's athleticism
Discover tools to deepen your physical listening skills
Explore the kinetic dialogue that can exist between human and equine partners
Play creatively
Find new choreography tools

Finding The Dance: Equus Projects & David Lichman

May 1-2, 2010
Clinton Corners, NY

This clinic will be headed by The Equus Projects and David Lichman

This clinic is for riders with their horses, unmounted Participants, and auditors

Dancers always welcome!

This Clinic will take place at Magnificant Farm in Clinton Corners, NY

Sessions with Dancers Include:

• Functional Anatomy, Strength and Stretch Exercises for Riders
• Finding the Dance in Leading and Following
• Riding with a Dancer in Tandem

Sessions with David Include:

• Developing a relationship as a foundation for dancing with your horse
• Having a willing dance partner
• Lateral Moves: Adding variety to the dance
• Developing the 7 Games to dance with your horse on the ground

To Register email Barbara Appolonia

For More Information Email THE EQUUS PROJECTS!

Fee: Riders - $450 Unmounted Participants - $150 per day Participate in all unmounted work Auditors - $40 per day

Finding the Dance & Creative Open Process

March 6 & 7th, 2010
The Hilltop, Yahala, FL

Enjoy an Early Bird Discount when you Register before February 15th, 2009!!!

Email Kristen, kristen.with.horses@gmail.com to learn more or register.

Fee: CLINIC & CREATIVE PROCESS: $400
CLINIC:
Riders: $350, $300 Early Bird
Unmounted Participants: $250, $200 Early Bird
Auditors: $35 / day
CREATIVE OPEN PROCESS: $75 (lunch included)

2009

Dancers Intensive - NYC - June 8-13, 2009

June 8-13, 2009
New York City and Pomona, NY

The Equus Projects is hosting its 6th annual Dancers Intensive in NYC

Mon/Wed/Fri (9-1pm) - Studio Sessions at Dance Theater Workshop (NYC, NY)
Tues/Thurs/Sat (8am - 1pm) - Sessions with Horses at Country Lee Farm in Pomona, NY (all transportation provided)

For Information & Registration
JoAnna Mendl Shaw
jmsnyc@aol.com
212-924-1336

The 2009 Dancers Intensive

Imagine a dance class that prepared you to perform in a 1000 seat arena. Imagine learning movement phrases for which every action had an outcome. Imagine devising choreographic scores that effectively communicates with a 12oo lb equine partner.
The Equus Projects company of ancers have all trained in equine ground skills. The movement language they have developed is an elegantly task-based dance language that is both functional and expressive . They use their knowledge of horse behavior to create agile improvisational skills and choreographic scores.

They do not just dance along side horses. They engage in fluid and expressive movement dialogues with equine partners. In their 6-day clinic thy share this unique language and dynamic system of dance making.

Studio sessions are Monday, Wednesday & Friday 10-2:00 at Dance Theatre Workshop

Equine sessions are conducted in Pomona, NY. Transportation is provided. Back in NYC by 2pm

Here's what people are saying:
"The idea of being physically in the moment is with me daily."
Lindsay Carleton, Dancer
2005 Dancers Intensive

"Thank you for the opportunity to experience this deep work."
Ara Fitzgerald, Dancer
2007 Dancers Intensive

"It has been a wonderful experience dancing with horses and analyzing partnerships."
Nejla Yatkin, Dancer
2007 Dancers Intensive

"(This work) promoted tapping into a deep reverence for the beauty of nature and the authenticity animals allow us to share with them, if we only will and can."
Karen Scherwood, Dancer
2008 Dancers Intensive Participant

"I am impressed (with) how your approach to working with the horses brings out certain qualities in humans and horses that transcend fixed patterns of horse/man interactions. It warms my heart to see how much you respect the horse as well as the dancer."
Maura Lee, Dancer
2008 Dancers Intensive Participant

"This was an experience I will never forget and never let go of. I hope to have the chance to grow in this movement and to be able to share it with others."
Lori Baker, Linguist, Dancer, Equestrian
2008 Dancers Intensive Participant

Fee: Fees: $500 Bring a friend and take the workshop for $350 Deposit due May 1st

Two Clinics for Equestrians - Aubrey, TX - May 30-31, June 1-2

May 30-31, 2009 AND June 1-2, 2009

The Equus Projects presents

Two Equestrian Clinics
in Aubrey Texas

May 30 - 31, 2009
Groundwork & Riding

June 1 - 2, 2009
Creativity and Choreography

Call for more information: 212-924-1336

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING....

I grasped so many incredible, intuitive insights into myself, the way I move and how it affects everything in my world - be it human or animal.
Beth Weaver
Dallas, OR

What a marvelous clinic you brought to us!!!
I now have so many newly identified pieces that I can begin to fit into the puzzle picture of me and my horses...it is going to be a delightful winter fo discovery and practice. Thanks to you and your marvelous dancers!
Lynn Elston
Snohomish, WA

To communicate from and through our bodies, enabling and encouraging fuller embodiment for expression and experience can unquestionably further our communication skills within ourselves, as well as in our worlds
with other humans and with animals.
Karen Scherwood
Seattle, WA

FACILITY INFORMATION

Firehawk Ranch
11952 FM 428
Aubrey, Texas 76227

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

JoAnna Mendl Shaw
212-924-1336
jmsnyc@aol.com

Fee: Riders - $450, Early bird - $400 (with $150 deposit due by April 1st). Unmounted participant - $100/day. Auditor - $35/day. Payable to - The Equus Projects, 121 West 17th Street, Apt. 4B New York, NY 10011. $10 per overnight (stalls and paddocks available) Contact: Jeannette Wright 972-345-2718 flow@fastmail.net

2008

Clinic for Equestrians- Athens, OH - Nov. 8 & 9, 2008

November 8 & 9, 2008 (9am-5pm)
Athens, OH

Clinic for Equestrians - Arlington, WA - Oct. 11 & 12, 2008

October 11-12, 2008 (9:00am - 5:00pm)
Arlington, WA

 

Clinic for Equestrians - Saugerties, NY - Sept. 27 & 28, 2008

September 27-28, 2008
Saugerties, New York

 

Dancers' Intensive

June 23rd - June 25th
The Horse Institute / Ancramdale, NY

 

Clinic for Equestrians

May 31st & June 1st
Cleburne, Texas

 

Clinic for Equestrians

May 31st & June 1st
Cleburne, Texas

 

2007

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Willow Run Ranch

November 3-4, 2007
Athens, Ohio

 

Saint Cloud

October 27-29, 2007
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Serendipity Farm

October 20-21, 2007
Raymond, Maine

Beaver Kill Farm

September 29-30, 2007
Saugerties, NY

September 29-30, 2007

Deer Kill Farm, Saugerties, NY

Co-Presenter: Rachel Meyer, PT

Willow Tree Stables

June 9-10, 2007
Huntington, NY

June 9-10th

Willow Tree Farm, Huntington, NY

JoAnna Mendl Shaw with Equestrian Mette Larsen will teach a clinic that will help riders:

• Find deep muscular connections to increase balance and harmony with horse.
• Experience taking the concept of 'leading and following' to a whole new level
• Learn about "Brain Gym" - Movement patterns for contra-lateral body integration
• Work one on one with a dancer to create an effortless movement conversation between human and horse
  
  Co-Presenter: Trainer, Equestrian Mette Larsen
  

April 28th

Idlenot Farm, Clinton, CT

The Equus Projects with Patricia Norcia

Clinic in Reddick, Florida

March 3-4, 2007

March 3 & 4, 2007

Reddick, FL

The Equus Projects & Karen Rohlf

2006

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October 21-22, 2006

Willow Tree Farm, Huntington, NY

The Equus Projects & David Lichman

September 30, 2006

Saugerties, New York

Beaver Kill Farm
The Equus Projects

September 22-23, 2006

Cottonwood, California

The Equus Projects & David Lichman

August 18 - 20, 2006

Huntington NY

Willow Tree Farm
33 Lloyd Harbor Road
Huntington NY 11743

Co-taught:
JoAnna Mendl Shaw &
David Lichman

May 2006

Hayfork,CA

Co-taught with 5-Star Parelli Instructor,David Lichman

2004

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October 2004

Idlenot Farm, Clinton, CT

March 2004 – Clinic for Riders

Manakin, Virginia

Manakin-Sabot Equestrian Center

2003

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July, 2003 - Clinic: Dancing With Partners

The Morgan Horse Farm, Shelburne, VT

May, 2003 - Clinic: Dancing With Partners

The Equestry

2002

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July 28, 2002 - Workshop for Dancers: Dancing With Partners

Produced by The Flynn

July 27, 2002 - Equestrian Clinic

Produced by The Flynn

2001

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July 7, 8,9, 2001 - Clinic: Dancing With Partners

The Equestry

Co-Produced by The Flynn Theatre

July 5, 2001 - Clinic

The Equestry, New Haven VT

Working for Dancers With Horses and Riders
Co-Produced by The Flynn Theatre

May 2001 - Clinic: Dancing With Partners

The Equestry

March 2001 - Clinic: Dancing With Horses

Alvin Ailey Studios, New York City

February 2001 - Clinic: Dancing With Partners

The Equestry

2000

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November 2000 - Clinic: Dancing With Partners

The Equestry, New Haven VT

October 2000- Clinic: Deep Listening

The Equestry, New Haven VT