A movie about Continuum could only be made by someone who has experienced it
over time. Hanna Heiting, through her own practice of the work, exquisite
eye for imagery and rhythm, has gifted the Continuum community, the somatic
field and the art world with EM Moves, a movie that transmits the feeling of
Continuum through the sense of actually being in a workshop, the sight of
Emilie moving and, ultimately, a subtle but unmistakable call to move in the
Continuum way. Portrayed as a visionary in somatic healing and also as a
multi-dimensional, dancer, writer and performer, Emilie is not only an
inspiration for transforming one¹s own challenging legacy but also an
invitation for all of us to profoundly live our full potential.
Erla Leon, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist and Artist
The rhythm of the film itself seems to embody the fluidity and intervals
that Emilie speaks of... not chaotically vibrating like the mechanical and
electronic technologies of our modern times but pulsing organically like
the frequencies of the earth and embryos and an undulating dancer. EM Moves
invites you to turn off your smartphones, tune in to your breathing, and
sink into the harmonious interplay of sounds, images, words, movements and
ideas. If you allow it -- you will find your mind expanded and your heart
opened from this exquisite journey.
James Seligman, Documentary filmmaker
Hanna captured the medicine of Emilie's work, not by talking about or trying
to show it, but by allowing it to be there as the Field in the backdrop of
every moment in the film. The soundscape she and Yuval Ron created acts as a
bridge, assisting viewers to understand they are entering an experience that
forever changes the way they see themselves and the world.
Cass Phelps, Creator of the Awake-One work
I just wanted to tell you what a FANTASTIC job you did with your "love
letter." I was moved to tears in parts, and you so wonderfully captured
Emilie, I was also smiling. Thank you for your creation! The fact that the
film embodies the essence of its subject, in content as well as in
structure, is the other great point of your work.
Linda Ivarie- Kaplan, Producer, "Mending The Sacred Hoop: A Nation Heals"
How does one explain Continuum, with all its layers of magic and mystery,
when for each of us it is a different experience? How does one explain the
connection to the body and the world around us that we each feel when we do
Continuum? Rather than tell us, Hanna invites us in to experience Emilie's
world as she knows it. This film is a treasure.
Zippora Karz, Former Soloist NYCB, Author The Sugarless Plum
Beautifully crafted with love, Em Moves is a tribute to Emilie Conrad and
her re-evolutional movement work, Continuum.
Lynette Kessler, Founder and Director, Dance Camera West
Hanna Heiting¹s film about Emilie Conrad and her Continuum movement is
extraordinary for it invites the viewer to personally experience what
Continuum is. The film¹s poetic style, with its empty spaces, compels you
to create according to your own frame of reference. The film gracefully
implores you to find the accessible within and without and access it. You
feel caressed by the film and its very form.
Many of the concepts embraced by Emilie¹s Continuum philosophy are similar
to the philosophical viewpoint of Indian Vedic tradition. The concept of
³Neti Neti² or ³Not this not this² is artfully demonstrated in this film.
The importance of a seeker attaining the understanding of non-dichotomous
thinking or seeing life not as right and wrong, good and evil, reward and
punishment is where Continuum and Vedic philosophy truly parallel each
other. How life becomes a series of closures and openings for the conscious
seeker is so well portrayed here both verbally and visually.
Vidya Dasi, Ayurvedic Teacher and Therapist, Vedic Astrologer
Hanna Heiting's film, EM Moves, is an absorbing portrait of Continuum, the
brilliant life's work of Emilie Conrad, a former dancer who invented
Continuum's healing system of movement. Much has been documented about the
facts of her methods, but Heiting's film tells it from the inside. As a
long time student of Continuum, this filmmaker creates an intimate, poetic,
breathtaking experience for the viewer.
Joan Hotchkis is a writer, an actress and performance artist.