photo: NATALIE FIOL
PRACTICING LOCATION I
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MARCH 3, 10, 17, 24
3-4:30pm EST/2-3:30 CST A 4 WEEK VIRTUAL WORKSHOP UTILIZING ZOOM, PHONE CALLS + INDOOR/OUTDOOR SPACES FOR CONVERSATION + MOVEMENT we meet on zoom to practice listening, observing and moving with place, both interior and exterior. each week, we will spend an hour and a half in improvised movement practices and conversation. activities might include: sound walks around our block, group phone calls while walking- sharing how we are experiencing place, movement explorations while looking outside, movement explorations while looking inside. we will synthesize our experiences through conversation and creation of movement studies. plan on working inside and outside, no matter the weather! this workshop might be a good fit if: you are interested in choreographic practices, conversations about movement, living in our bodies right now, space + time. cost: $50-80 for 4 week session. no one turned away for lack of funds. please reach out if payment is an issue. we want you to participate. MESSAGE US TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT: BESTLASTDANCE AT GMAIL DOT COM |
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WE TEACH OTHER WORKSHOPS
MINDFULNESS FOR ZOOM MEETINGS
Start your next zoom meeting with a 10-15 minute pause- L+M lead you through checking in with your breath, body and heart in order to enter into whatever important discussion is next in your day.
CORPORATE WELLNESS: HALF DAY RETREATS
Virtual or in person, we move through a series of exercises for body/mind addressing physical wellness, mental clarity, and the importance of imagination/play, both for the individual and community. The retreat includes: field trips for walking, mindful and imaginative practices, conversation, and physical exercises that are about gently saying a little hello to our body, to the place we are in, both solo and in community.
PRACTICING DISORIENTATION
A physical, sweaty class about going upside down, in and out of the ground, throwing ourselves off-kilter and into the oblique, finding our multiple fluid bodies, and working from sensation (especially working from outside of sight). There will be some highly structured improvisation, some partner work, and perhaps a big old phrase or two.
SOMATICS | SOUNDING THE BODY
L+M are interested in the vibrational body, in relation to other bodies, in relation to spaces, in internal relation to its own parts. In this workshop we will begin by situating ourselves sonically in space. We may talk at varying volumes and distances with one another about how we arrived to where we are today. We may use our voices to ‘sound our space’ - figuring out, through an inaccurate method of echolocation - where we are...what is the density of the space? The corners? How can we holler? Whisper? What can be heard? What can be felt? We will do vocal exercises for accessing all parts of the voice (beautiful and ugly and strange and wonderful). We will try too many things at once and try to scramble our moving bodies with our voice. We will sing lullabies to one another, we will play with VOLUME as a concept. We will breathe.