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Andrea is a modern and improvisational dancer, she is also a choreographer who teaches and performs internationally.
She believes that the relationship between mover and witness parallels that of performer and audience.
In her article Being Seen, Being Moved Andrea suggests the multiplicity of the human experience lives in each of us, and the stage provides an opportunity to embody our inner selves by moving as performer, or by empathizing or projecting as audience' (Olsen, 1993).
Coursework at the AMI, aims to explore one's own artistic imagination through improvisation and choreography which can lead participants into methods of informing and resourcing creative and performance work.
In her article Andrea remarks on this as she recalls, 'Simply by letting my body move me instead of trying to control it, fascinating movement and useful insights would emerge.
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Olsen, Andrea J. Being,Seen, Being Moved.
Contact Quarterly.
Winter/Spring 1993, pp.46-53.