Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Kevin Kortan - Season 6, Episode 82

Kevin  Kortan has been immersed in sound and movement practices sincechildhood. He was a boy soprano and later (after his voice changed!)became a cantor in church at a young age, where he first encountered theancient art of call and response.  A featured soloist in choirs and inmusicals, he studied music and theater at Augsburg College.  Singingprofessionally for a time, fate steered him into the art of Dance where hehad the good fortune of having a professional career for many years.Kevin danced in Zenon Dance Company in Minneapolis, Concert DanceCompany of Boston, and numerous New York companies. In Boston heperformed in works by Mark Morris, Wendy Perron, Mark Dendy, MarkTaylor, Laura Dean, Merce Cunningham, Kei Takei, David Gordon, CharlieMoulton, and others. In New York, he performed in the companies of MarkTaylor, Mark Dendy, Wendy Perron, Nina Wiener, and Victoria Marks. From1990-96, Kevin danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. He hascollaborated with choreographers Jaime Ortega, Patrick Scully, and hasshown his own work in the U.S. and France. Kevin has taught dancearound the world.Yoga then called him from a life oriented around performing to a life oftransforming, himself and others.  In the ancient tradition, Kevin teachesbreath-centered yoga and yoga therapy practices to people one-on-oneand in groups. He rediscovered his voice and the healing power of soundthrough Vedic and other forms of chant. It is with joy that he leads others, ingroups and individually, to find their own voice, connected to their heart.He has been composing his own chants and shares them throughrecordings and Chanting For The Love Of It events. One of his great lovesis synchronizing movement and chanting through an approach he callsMantra In Motion. He is a Certified Yoga Therapist & Teacher, IntegrativeSomatic Movement Therapist & Educator, Dance Teacher, Yoga TeacherTrainer, Chant Teacher, as well as the founder and creator of EvolutionaryYoga™. Please visit Kevin's site at http:// www.evolutionaryyoga.com/