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A movement artist across many disciplines, Arona derives personal enrichment from yoga, martial
arts, rock climbing, dance theater and contemporary dances including modern and contact improvisation. She is a Guild-Certified
Feldenkrais Practitioner who works at the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic, attends theater school at the Berkeley Repertory Theater
and is currently a student practitioner of the Axis Syllabus, Body Mind Centering and Myofascial Meridians methods. She occasionally
publishes articles which can be found under her Tango Kinetics.
Feldenkrais - Awareness through Movement®
& Functional Integration®
Arona is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and has been practicing
for almost 10 years. She has a total of 1700 hours of training, including 500 hours of Advanced Training. She offers Feldenkrais
classes and intensive workshops at private and public venues including ODC and YMCA. She also has a private practice near
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has a parrticular affinity for Feldenkrais as it brings together the commonly
divided faculties of human capacity - to move, to think, to feel and primarily to sense, all in a clear and demonstrable fashion.
See Feldenkrais.
Tango
Arona started
leading before she started following, which set her on a unique journey in her pursuit of Argentine Tango. Her style of dancing
and teaching centers on partner negotiation, self awareness and expression, and playing on the edge of the comfort zone. Her
classes are fun, innovative, and delightfully informative. She has a clear pedagogy that emphasizes kinesthetic listening,
weight exchange, body organization, working on/off balance, and a playfulness that invites the unexpected, while weaving in
the fundamental structure and vocabulary of Argentine Tango for the man and the woman. She cultivates in her students a play
with unexpected, rather than a re-creation the known/memorized steps and shapes. See Tango-Kinetics.
Yoga
Arona began her study of yoga at age 15 with Swami Sachitananda. Since then she has been regularly
studying the origins of pranayama, hatha yoga (asanas) and bhandas, while practicing at home and at local studios. Arona is
a student practitioner of the school of Body Mind Centering® approach to yoga which is focused on
embodied anatomy and developmental movement applied to yoga. This program draws the underlying development processes
and biosystems including fluid, organs, skeletal, muscular, endocrine, ligaments, nervous system, breathing and vocalization.
Arona completes her 2-year program with BMC in February, 2012. For more information, see Body-Mind-Centering and Yoga.
Improv Theater &
Contact Improvisation Arona is an avid Theater and Contact Improvisationalist.
Improv and Physical Theater offer a repertoire of improvisation techniques and strategies for shifting
mind-states and physical states to induce a quality of freshness, responsiveness, connection and presence. Contact Improvisation is rooted in Aikido and offers a solid bedrock of techniques in qualities of contact, anatomical
organization and self-use, negotiation of weight and qualities of movement. Arona has been dancing contact improv for over
5 years with the original founders, namely Sara Shelton Mann, Nita Little and Karl Frost. She has also studied with professional
acting and voice teachers of Improv at the Berkeley Rep School and BATS Improv. She is currently performing in Axolotl, a paratheatrical piece where performers and audience members engage in an improvised kinesthetic experience.
The stage is the mind of the audience members as they were blind-folded for 2 hours.
(Note: Paratheater was coined by the late Polish theatre director, Jerzy Grotowski, to address a highly dynamic and visceral
approach to performance that aimed to erase traditional divisions between spectators and performers.)
Arona employs improv in her performances, group classes and individual
lessons.
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