Anne Mulvaney Dancing Massage Therapist           Anne Mulvaney is a choreographer, performer, dance teacher, licensed massage therapist, and mother dedicated to living through the creative, expressive, performing, meditative, and somatic arts.           As an artist and teacher, my work specializes in 'Dance as a Healing Art', an integration of modern dance, authentic movement, contact improvisation, ideokinesis, visual art, and natural sound. My workshops guide people in dynamic alignment through movement, imagery, and character play.           As a performer, I explore dance through my whole body in nature, space; in relations to others; contact, and in time. I explore words, ideas, emotions, eros and landscapes. This venture has lead me into professional modern dance venues, and site specific pieces in NYC and throughout the Hudson River Valley; where I collaborate with Upriver Downtown Dance Company. My deepest inspiring mentors have been Anna Halprin, Nancy Topf, and Sondra Loring.           I am also a certified Pilates mat instructor, yoga teacher, and personal trainer. I have 10 years of massage practice with extensive training in both eastern and western modalities so that I may discern through my senses the optimal techniques available to guide my clients toward holistic health. My dance practice informs my massage practice; I am dancing and I am dancing with the person on which I am working.           Currently, I live in Woodstock and have a private massage practice in Tivoli where I co-produce events with Kathleen involving dance, ritual, theater, and play at Somatic Studio's Barn, and in nature.