Welcome to Moving On Center
Moving on Center (MOC) is a training program linking Somatics and the Performing Arts for Social Change. Using experiential and co-operative learning, MOC has a mission to develop community leaders and artists who engage the whole body-mind to promote holistic social change.
Bridging Somatics and Performing Arts for
Social Change
Founded in 1994 by Carol Swann and Martha Eddy, Moving On Center (MOC) the School for Participatory Arts & Somatic Research has been a pioneer in the field of holistic and interdisciplinary education.
We Begin with the Body
An interdisciplinary curriculum that draws on dance, theater, voice, group process and a wide variety of somatic research to activate creativity and health in the individual and the community.
Professional Skills
MOC’s training programs integrate multiple somatic systems with performing and healing arts toward social change. We offer a unique opportunity to integrate the desire for personal growth with the development of meaningful professional skills applicable to fields such as performing arts, education, health and social change.
Socially Conscious
We aim to provide tools for individuals, groups and entire communities to become aware of our own interconnectedness, to each other and the planet through somatic perception and to assess, interrupt, and transform harmful personal and social patterns.
Learn about multiple Somatic Practices
Moving On Center dynamic and rigorous movement based training modules are based on and integrate various somatic modalities such as Body Mind Centering (R), Laban Movement Analysis, Bartennieff Fundamentals (TM), Alexander Technique, Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Voice Through The Body, Developmental Movement and others.
These methods give you specific skills to develop your body connectivity, re-pattern habitual alignment and movement patterns, increase your kinesthetic awareness through embodied anatomy and learn skills for greater communication within oneself and with others.
News & Events.
Developmental Sequence
January 26, 2017Moving On Center at Zaccho Studio in SF 2017
June 30, 2015Somatics In Action Series in Berkeley
May 23, 2015Voice Thru The Body Series TBA
May 13, 2015Teacher Spotlight.
Frey Faust
A new member of MOC faculty, Frey Faust is a 52 year old veteran of the New York contemporary dance scene. Frey Faust is the founder of a movement analysis and training method called The Axis Syllabus … Read More →
Back in San Francisco Bay Area 2017
Returning to the Bay Area in 2017, MOC (sponsored by ZACCHO STUDIO and Joanna Haigood), features the Somatic Module in four extended weekends modules. This transformational training offers you a unique opportunity to integrate the desire for personal growth with the development of meaningful professional skills, applicable to fields such as performing arts, education and health. The new location: Zaccho Studio 1777 Yosemite Ave., #330, San Francisco, CA. 94124
