Shannon Murphy

Shannon is facilitating two dance-for-healing workshops entitled FIND for female US Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. FIND will bridge the gap between dance and its audiences, and seeks to interact and connect with ‘non-dance’ communities. This highly structured workshop will prove that dance can have an impact on individual wellbeing. The workshops will be documented and the video edited into a 5-7 minute documentary, as a chronicle of the actual stories that live within the physical body. Shannon intends for the workshops to affirm that no matter how the body learns beliefs or experiences emotions, we can identify how our bodies respond to those cognitive embodiments, and we can take charge of our own healing. In addition, the women involved will have a chance to see their bodies in a new light and connect to a large group of women who can share and relate to each other in a new way through movement.