[in]Visible Magazine

I grew up in two very different households. My par­ents divorced when I was seven. My mother had pri­mary custody of me, but I still saw my father at least once a week. My parents are two very different peo­ple—my mother is extremely liberal and self-aware, while my father is extraordinarily conservative.

Professor Gail Abrams has taught in the Scripps College Dance Department for 23 years. She is cur­rently team-teaching a CORE II class called “The Embodied Self: Feminist Theories of Body, Yoga, and Dance” with Professor Leigh Gilmore. The class explores expression through body movement in yoga and dance, as well as the role of gender […]

Professor Abrams studies the mind-body connection by analyzing body movement. “The body,” she explains, “has an innate intelligence which is often interfered with by outside influences” that create mis­alignment, patterns of tension, and inefficiency in body movement.