Lauren E. Harrison

Dancer and Educator

Kinesthetic Learning, Body Awareness and Proprioception

I read somewhere that only 15% of people are kinesthetic learners.  No way!  I don’t think that can be true- can it?  I’m going to look in to this some more and I’ll report back…
Anyway, my curiosity on that topic lead me to this article about body awareness and proprioception:
http://school.familyeducation.com/sensory-integration/growth-and-development/40188.html

Creative Dance

These organizations inspire me:
http://www.creativedance.org/
http://www.sparkplugdance.org/

EDUplus

Please take a moment to visit “Paige’s Haiti Page” – a blog written by my very close friend, Paige Orlowski- an active Volunteer for Haiti.
http://paigeshaitipage.blogspot.com/
Paige has been helping to rebuild this already impoverished country for several years now.  Most recently, she developed EDUplus, a non- profit which enhances the Haitian economy through offering training and [...]

lookie here

click here to read about dance training in a perfect world.  i am an advocate.

two for one

so after not writing for three months, you’re getting two blogs in one night……….
here is a piece of art that i came across yesterday.  it totally inspires me.  watch it before you read on to my opinion…
not only is this technologically amazing but i love everything else about it. the musicality and quirkiness of the [...]

for maddy

madison… as promised, here’s another blog from yours truly… sorry it took so long.
highlights from l.e.h- direct from nyc.

gwen and i hosted thanksgiving.  we spent the day with my parents and sister and several of our mutal friends.  i made the house look pretty/ rooted gwen on while she cooked the turkey and most everything [...]

my first

i finally took my first dance class in nyc yesterday.  it was a spiritual experience.over the last four months, i’ve enjoyed being a “normal person”.  i’ve been trying to figure out what else i can do in this life as a creative individual.  i’ve been doing a lot of painting and projects around the house [...]

fall signs

just in the last week or so, i’ve started to notice crisp leaves sparsely scattered atop the ground and i can’t help but get a little bit excited about the changing of seasons.  while it may bring on the occasional migraine headache (sniffle) it’s something that i have yet to experience.   so far, the seasonal changes [...]

work in progress

Gwen and I moved in to our own place in West Harlem on Sept. 1.  Since then, I’ve been working more at the Z and trying to get the new place together on my off days.  Slowly but surely, our house is becoming a home.  We love it.  Of course, in size it’s comparable to [...]

view from the top

thanks to ron’s curiosity, yesterday me and gwen and ron found out that there is access to our rooftop. here’s one view:i tried my first martini this week. it tasted like dirty water and vodka. if you haven’t had pepper vodka before, don’t try it. while drinking the martini, i figured [...]

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