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

Kevin  Kortan has been immersed in sound and movement
practices since
childhood. He was a boy soprano and later (after his voice
changed!)
became a cantor in church at a young age, where he first
encountered the
ancient art of call and response.  A featured soloist in
choirs and in
musicals, he studied music and theater at Augsburg College. 
Singing
professionally for a time, fate steered him into the art of Dance
where he
had the good fortune of having a professional career for many
years.

Kevin danced in Zenon Dance Company in Minneapolis, Concert
Dance
Company of Boston, and numerous New York companies. In Boston
he
performed in works by Mark Morris, Wendy Perron, Mark Dendy,
Mark
Taylor, Laura Dean, Merce Cunningham, Kei Takei, David Gordon,
Charlie
Moulton, and others. In New York, he performed in the companies
of Mark
Taylor, Mark Dendy, Wendy Perron, Nina Wiener, and Victoria
Marks. From
1990-96, Kevin danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. He
has
collaborated with choreographers Jaime Ortega, Patrick Scully,
and has
shown his own work in the U.S. and France. Kevin has taught
dance
around the world.

Yoga then called him from a life oriented around performing to a
life of
transforming, himself and others.  In the ancient tradition,
Kevin teaches
breath-centered yoga and yoga therapy practices to people
one-on-one
and in groups. He rediscovered his voice and the healing power of
sound
through Vedic and other forms of chant. It is with joy that he
leads others, in
groups and individually, to find their own voice, connected to
their heart.
He has been composing his own chants and shares them
through
recordings and Chanting For The Love Of It events. One of his
great loves
is synchronizing movement and chanting through an approach he
calls
Mantra In Motion. He is a Certified Yoga Therapist &
Teacher, Integrative
Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator, Dance Teacher,
Yoga Teacher
Trainer, Chant Teacher, as well as the founder and creator of
Evolutionary
Yoga. Please visit Kevin's site at http://
www.evolutionaryyoga.com/