Be Body in Port Townsend

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

July 25
11-1:30 pm
11526 Rhody Drive, Port Hadlock-Irondale, WA 98339
Contact: samwelly@pm.me

Sliding scale: $25–$35

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. Instead, you’ll enter a river of movement—finding resonance with yourself and with each other. Yes, we’ll sweat. Yes, we’ll sense in. Yes, we’ll have fun, and yes, there will be challenging moments. We’ll embrace it all.

In this class, we explore the intelligence of our joints and the relationships that organize movement. How do our joints support adaptation, balance, and fluidity? How do our bones, muscles, and connective tissues communicate as we move through space? When do our bones and tissues actually need to assemble—to offer just enough tone for movement—while allowing much of the rest of the body to remain beautifully unassembled?

Perhaps skillful movement is not about holding the whole body together, but about discovering which relationships need to organize in each moment and which can remain spacious, available, and empty. Using the Axis Syllabus as a foundation, we explore the art of assembling and disassembling in motion—cultivating awareness of how the body gathers support, let go of unnecessary tension, and continually reorganizes itself to meet each unfolding gesture. Through this process, we discover the body as a fluid, multidimensional space rather than a rigid structure controlling it.

We dance alone and with others, entering a playful mode of embodied research. Through sensation, curiosity, and shared attention, we discover new possibilities for moving, adapting, and allowing ourselves to be moved.