Rena Milgrom

Dance Movement Therapist

Registered Somatic Movement Educator

Certified Movement Analyst

Movement/Dance Artist

Education:

2018 till now - study of The Discipline of Authentic Movement (Fran Lavendel, Irmgard Halstrup) 2023-25 - Prague Theater Faculty (DAMU, KATAP) - Creative Pedagogy 2016-17 Hakomi method (Hakomi Educational Network, Bilbao, Spain)
2011-2014 Dance Movement Therapy training - TANTER Praha
2009-2011 LIMS (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies), New York,
2012 - 2020 courses in Body-Mind Centering,
Improvisation, Central Asian dances, Rhythms thru percussions
2006 - Art Therapy (Masaryk University Brno)
2001-2011 - study, research, practise of Central Asian dances

Drawing from her dance background , research on traditional dances and rituals from India to Central Asia, she began her path into somatic studies - movement and therapy.

In 2002 she founded the DanceLab studio in Prague, where she teaches somaticaly oriented movement and helds private therapeutic clinic.

2018 - director of SOMA FESTIVAL Praha / biennal event
Since 2006 she directs an NGO Open field, originaly focused on cultural dance exchange and events, currently serving as a Somatic educational platform.
In 2012 she created a somatic educational program CONSCIOUS BODY which is opening every year for 15-20 students.
Between 2012-17 and now since 2024 she has been teaching Laban Movement Analysis at the Palucca Dance Universityin Dresden, Germany.
In 2018 together with Smadar Emor from Synapsa center Israel they have established a three year program BODYVOICE (Voice in Movement Integration) in Prague.

As a Dance Movement Therapist, she is working since 2015 with Parkinson patients under Parkinson-Help, Prague as well as with adult clientel with various issues.
Choreographic work :
2006 - The Silk Road project (Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Plzeň)
2008 - Persian Miniatures (Prague - theatre La Fabrika)
2009 - Thousand and One Nights ( Theater Minor, Prague),
The Conference of the Birds (Prague, Bratislava, Hradec Králové)
2011 - The Book of Hours (Prague)
2012-2019 - choreography for Waldorf Lyceum Praha
2016 - M.B. Yes I want even if I don t (Prague)
2011- 2019 Global Water Dances.- biennal environmental world happening and choreograph
2018 - IMPROVISIT collective
Other interests:
Ceramics,Painting, drawing, music, singing, traveling, cooking, cultural art studies