A Body That Is Yours To Find: North Adams
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A Body That Is Yours To Find — Six-Week Movement Series Begins October 6 in North Adams
NORTH ADAMS, MA — Dance artist Stefanie Lynx Weber will offer A Body That Is Yours To Find, a six-week movement series for adults and elders experiencing changes or challenges in mobility. The series begins Tuesday, October 6 at 1 p.m. at Movement Matters, Suite 311, 60 Roberts Dr., North Adams, MA 01247, and continues for six weeks. This program is funded in part by a grant from the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshires, a local agency which is supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
Created as a creative-process approach to movement, A Body That Is Yours To Find offers participants an opportunity to explore how they move, sense, communicate, and connect with their bodies — particularly when changes in mobility or independence have altered their relationship with movement.
The series was first developed through Weber’s work with people on the Parkinson’s path of progression and has expanded to the development of a short art-film (in-progress) and workshops welcoming people living with a range of ongoing situations that affect movement or perception of the body in space, including Parkinson’s, brain injury, post-stroke changes, dementia, recovery from surgery or injury, and other mobility challenges.
Weber describes the experience that inspired the series: “I discovered, while working with a client with advanced-stage Parkinson’s, that he had a superpower. At first, he was very worried that I wouldn’t want to work with him because he was ‘too far gone.’ But his limitations created a space for something that had never existed before. He had to move with such exact awareness of every moment. When we moved together, we had to communicate in a way that was incredibly precise, conscious, and focused. It was poetic, creative, and really fun, too. I want to experience that superpower with other people.”
Rather than approaching movement as physical therapy, exercise, or a set of movements that participants are expected to perform correctly, the series invites curiosity and exploration. Participants work with guided movement, improvisation, awareness, communication, and movement with others to discover possibilities in their bodies.
The class also recognizes that changes in mobility and independence affect the people around us. Caregivers and aides are encouraged to attend and participate. The movement work includes basic partnering and ways of communicating through movement that can be useful in everyday caregiving.
Each session is one hour long, with the series meeting weekly for six weeks. Participants may also have an opportunity to share something from their process with the public during the final week.
Stefanie Weber is an action-based dance artist and movement specialist who has spent decades exploring how people move, create, and connect through their bodies. A lifelong student of movement and somatic practice, she has been a certified GYROTONIC® Method trainer since 2006 and has maintained a private practice working with people of diverse abilities and movement needs. Her work draws from dance, restorative movement, experiential anatomy, energy-based practices, and body-focused modalities, including the Gillespie Approach to CranioSacral Fascial Therapy. For more than 20 years, she was on the faculty of Community Access to the Arts, where she developed her distinctive approach to teaching creative movement and crafting bold performance work for all bodies. She is currently on faculty at Cantarella School of Dance and the Boulder Psychic Institute. Stefanie maintains her private practice at Tourmaline Z Studio with the Clock Tower Artists in Pittsfield. More about her work can be found at fertileuniverse.com/private-sessions.
Movement Matters is a holistic movement studio offering specialized group classes and personalized one-on-one sessions in a welcoming, boutique setting. The studio places a particular emphasis on fascia — its role in movement, health, and overall well-being — and helps clients develop greater awareness of how they can support healthy movement in their daily lives. Sessions are led by certified, intuitive practitioners, and the studio serves a diverse community that includes people referred by local doctors, chiropractors, and physical therapists.
A Body That Is Yours To Find
Tuesdays at 1 p.m.
Beginning October 6, 2026 — six weeks
Movement Matters, Suite 311
60 Roberts Dr., North Adams, MA 01247
Cost: Pay what you can, with a suggested donation of $5 per session or $30 for the six-week series. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
Registration and contact:
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Email movementmatters87@gmail.com, call (413) 347-3372, or complete the online registration form: https://forms.gle/3YNnXujf2zhfJCiL6
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