One, Two, We
Workshop with Delia Brett
Listening Through the Body — Gravity, Core & the Expanding Field of Relationship
There is a way the dance happens when we stop trying to make it happen.
When we soften the bracing.
When we wait for the weight.
When we listen — not with our ears, but with fascia, fluids, bone.
This day is devoted to listening as both practice and technique.
We will explore how patience, specificity, and humility can settle a hijacked nervous system. How depth and flow arise not from effort, but from participation.
At the heart of our exploration is the deep myofascial core — not something we grip, but something we enter.
Core strength is not something we manufacture.
It is given.
It comes from the Earth’s gravitational field moving through us. Every lean is a conversation with physics. Every lift is a negotiation with mass. Every fall is an agreement.
We are not making movement.
We are participating in forces already at work.
It sounds mystical.
It is.
And it is also practical. Practicable.
It is ordinary — standing, walking, leaning, falling.
And there is a way.
One. Two. We.
We will practice listening in solo, duet, trio, and group forms, noticing how awareness shifts as the relational field expands.
The solo and duet are foundational.
When a third body enters, something reorganizes.
When the group becomes the organism, the question deepens:
How do we expand without losing ourselves?
How do we stay rooted as the field widens?
How do we send a ripple through space without touch?
How do we allow the whole experience to move us — rather than stay small, as a contracted, separate self?
We will explore:
• Being in contact even when not touching
• Widening attention without dissociating
• Shifting touch so it includes more than two bodies
• Moving from point-to-point relating into field awareness
• Letting the collective nervous system inform individual action
Trio practice — an intricate geometry of timing, weight, and spatial intelligence — has been a lifelong devotion of mine. Group improvisation asks us to trust that we are both distinct and inseparable from the whole.
Concrete Skills We Will Practice
• Waiting for the weight
• Dancing the negative space
• Micro-movements of the spine
• Vectors, currents, ripples - tracking touch with specificity
• Finding Grand Neutrality — where power and release coexist
• Expanding and condensing awareness with choice
These are physical skills.
And they are relational skills.
This intensive is also an offering of lineage and gratitude.
Much of this work has been shaped through 25 years as a core member of EDAM Dance and as a lifelong student of Peter Bingham. This class is a tribute to Peter — to the rigour, listening, and devotion to physics and presence that he gave so generously to our community and to me.
Come practice gravity.
Come practice listening.
Come practice One, Two, We.
About Delia
Delia has lived a lifetime inside improvisation.
A professional dancer for over three decades, she has created and performed work rooted in improvisation as both process and performance. She co-founded and directed the interdisciplinary dance company MACHiNENOiSY, touring internationally as a choreographer, performer and teacher, with extensive experience in trio creation and large-group improvisational structures.
Her work now bridges dance, somatics, and transformational coaching. She sees improvisation not only as art, but as a doorway into personal and collective transformation — a practice of presence that reshapes how we move, relate, and become.