Be Body - Being moved

Dance and Somatics continuously oscillating between practice, theory, improvisation and play. The body as a field of inquiry and research, embodiment and fierce physicality.

Dates:
Friday morning dance 10am - noon
February 20, 27 - March 13, 20, 27 - April 3
no class on March 6
Drop in $25

♡ ⭐️ If you sign up for 4 you can come for all 6!!
4-6 classes $100 – $160 (sliding scale) ⭐️ ♡

At the Aikido Peace Education Center

Registration

(Please sign up even if you just want to drop in, so I can send you the door code)

Who doesn't want to start the day with a dance class!? A movement class where you won't imitate a teacher in front of a freakin' mirror. You will be exposed to a river of movement in resonance with each other. Yes, we'll sweat. Yes, we'll sense in. Yes we'll have fun and certainly some challenging moments. We'll embrace it all.

In this series we will be inspired by material from past Be Body classes. We develop an appetite for disorientation and learn to delight in it while dancing. Disorientation stimulates balance and challenges the way we are used to balancing. We can give up choosing "this way or that way" and allowing ourselves to get caught up in the whirlwind of kinesthetic possibilities – the potential of being moved by beauty and sensation. We aim to experience our bodies as a spherical multidimensional space instead of a rigid structure controlling space.

We will build capacity to stay aware during spatial disorientation by practicing shifting and falling in many directions, being upside down, spinning, playing with momentum, peripheral vision, eyes closed and most of all not being in total control. We will explore the fluid nature of our structure in order to cultivate introspection and sense proprioception.

These classes use the Axis Syllabus as a foundation for moving through space. We will dance in solo and with others, our body in relationship and in playful research mode.