Learning pathway
Embodied learning / Interdisciplinary study
Movement Studies Academy
An educational institution cultivating embodied learning through thoughtful teaching, interdisciplinary dialogue, and sustained practice.
Relational learning
Student autonomy
Lineage & inquiry
Human judgment
Why we exist
Movement is the medium. Learning is the mission.
Movement Studies Academy offers an educational home where diverse embodied practices can meet without being flattened into a single method. We support sustained study across somatic education, dance, music, artistic research, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary practice.
What guides us
Embodied learning is a lifelong practice. We teach with care for differing histories and sensitivities, prioritizing clear consent, choice in pacing, transparent communication, and respect for boundaries. Students are free to adapt, pause, observe, or step out without judgment. We honor the teachers, traditions, and sources that shape our work while creating room for dialogue, research, and innovation. Learning here is relational rather than transactional: it grows through attention, curiosity, practice, and mutual respect. Technology may support administration, research, and access, but educational judgment and teaching remain human responsibilities. We do not promise quick transformation; we cultivate perception, agency, and the conditions for meaningful learning over time.
Programs / Learning pathways
Pathways, not personalities.
MSA organizes study around connected fields of practice. Courses, workshops, laboratories, and mentoring can develop within each pathway while remaining part of a shared educational culture.
Learning pathway
Contact Improvisation
Explore weight, touch, consent, listening, shared momentum, and composition through evolving studio practice and dialogue.Register interestLearning pathway
Voice & Expression
Bring voice, sound, rhythm, movement, and presence into an interdisciplinary field of individual and collective expression.Register interestLearning pathway
Dance, Research & Creative Practice
Develop choreographic inquiry, improvisation, writing, documentation, and artistic research through sustained practice.Register interestOur educational scope
MSA offers education, not medical or therapeutic treatment. Participation is based on informed choice, and each person remains responsible for their own decisions and boundaries.
Read our commitmentsResearch / Practice
A living laboratory for embodied inquiry.
The Academy studies how bodies learn, compose, collaborate, remember, adapt, and imagine. Work is carried through practice and documented as scores, essays, conversations, public sharings, and field notes.
- Embodied cognition and situated attention
- Somatic learning and creative process
- Movement, ecology, and public space
- Choreographic and score-based practice
- Consent, pacing, and agency in learning
- Lineage, transmission, and living archives
Lineages / Mentors / Sources
Practices carry histories.
MSA studies the people, cultural contexts, and relationships through which movement knowledge travels. These figures are points of orientation within a wider field, not a closed canon.
We approach lineage through attribution, contextual study, critical dialogue, and direct practice rather than ownership or uncritical inheritance.
Moshe Feldenkrais
Developer of the Feldenkrais MethodA physicist, engineer, martial artist, and educator whose method studies how sensing, movement, attention, and learning can expand human possibility.
Read sourceMia Segal
Teacher and formative transmission figureMoshe Feldenkrais' first assistant, collaborator, and first authorized practitioner, she carried the work through decades of precise teaching and international study.
View interview archiveHaruchika Noguchi
Founder and developer of SeitaiHe organized Seitai as an approach to bodily education and developed practices and concepts including katsugen undo, yuki, and taiheki.
Read sourceHiroyuki Noguchi
Body educator and Do-ho researcherHaruchika Noguchi's son, he continued research into Japanese body culture and articulated Do-ho through the Shintai Kyoiku Kenkyusho.
Read sourceToshiyuki Tanaka
Jardim dos Ventos · Seitai-ho and Do-hoA senior source for MSA's study of Seitai-ho, Do-ho, spontaneous movement, Japanese body education, calligraphy, voice, and performance.
View mentor profileJosé Maria Carvalho
Núcleo Viver de Dança · Dance and somatic educationA senior source for MSA's inquiry into dance, improvisation, Feldenkrais-informed learning, Brazilian movement research, and choreographic practice.
View mentor profileHistorical note. Haruchika Noguchi developed and founded Seitai. His son Hiroyuki Noguchi continued this body-education research and is particularly associated with Do-ho and the Shintai Kyoiku Kenkyusho.
Events
Public moments to enter the work.
DIG in Contact Improvisation Jam
Weekly Contact Improvisation jam in Delft with Cristhy Mattos. €5 contribution; no registration needed.
Roffa CI Class + Jam
A recurring class and jam at Time Window with Cristhy and Pau. Registration by email through Roffa CI.
Individual Movement Studies Lesson
A private 75-minute movement studies lesson with Juliano Vendemiatti, available to request online.
Faculty / Facilitators
Distinct practices, one shared learning culture.
Faculty are more than a list of instructors. Each educator brings an independent voice while helping steward a culture of care, attribution, inquiry, and pedagogical integrity.
Shared areas of practice
Somatic Practice
Movement awareness, touch-based study, breath, sensation, coordination, and developmental movement.
Dance & Choreography
Improvisation, composition, contemporary dance, scoring, performance, and collective creative process.
Research & Writing
Practice-based research, reflective documentation, artistic inquiry, fieldwork, and publication.
Learning Culture
Clear consent, choice in pacing, respect for boundaries, thoughtful dialogue, and accessible learning environments.
Academy library
Documents that make our standards visible.
These public texts form a durable reference for participants, faculty, and collaborators. They will be revisited as the Academy learns and grows.
- Educational PhilosophyHow attention, agency, relationship, lineage, and human judgment shape learning at MSA.
- Faculty CharterThe shared commitments that connect distinct educators within one coherent learning culture.
- Institutional PrinciplesA living compass of questions, boundaries, and long-term responsibilities for the Academy.
- What You Can ExpectOur public commitments to autonomy, consent, clarity, attribution, privacy, and respect.
Contact
Begin with a conversation.
We welcome enquiries from prospective participants, educators, researchers, host venues, and partner organizations worldwide.
info@movementstudies.org