Clearing

a 3 hour workshop in somatic practice + improvisation

Participants are guided through a 50 minute Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson, becoming aware of patterns of effort and tension and discovering the possibility of new, different and more easeful movement. After the ATM, the group discusses and prepares for the clearing score, an improvisational score that aims to teach us about ourselves as creators and as performer simultaneously. The dancer is tasked to move deeply and honestly into what is easy, familiar, ingrained. There exploring a place of relative simplicity their mind and eventually their movement tends to want variation…it wants to wander. what happens next is how the dancer move and times that transition, finding flows of fullness and organized disruption in creation. As dancers, performers and people, we will consider our unconscious performativity and how it differs from our conscious performance. 

this practice is for anyone, at any level, who has a performance practice or is curious about having a more organized physical practice, and wants to witness and be witnessed. Each of us offers something different or unique in open spaces of learning.