Shake! and Dance!

4 Friday mornings
9:30-11:30
July 25
Aug 1, 8, 15
$10-$20 each session zelle, venmo or cash
Drop in possible but PLEASE sign up. I need at least 7 people each time!

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I invite you to start Friday mornings shaking* and dancing together! This is not a class. This is a practice. Simple and fun. Maybe even exciting. 
40 min shake, 80 min dancing. (Axis Syllabus** inspired dance phrase and improvisation). 

You can stay for the whole time, leave after the shake or come only for the dance + improv. All levels! Bring your movement journals!


*What is a Group Shake?

A Group Shake is a durational collective somatic event. We shake, to music {most of the time}, together for a duration with the emphasis on shaking and rocking the body in various ways. It can look like dancing but we don't have to be concerned with appearance, skill or rhythm. Group and individual ecstatic and meditative states can be achieved [but may not be]. Shaking is a simple and individual task-based practice without explicit goals but also beneficial for circulation, nervous system and systemic health. Shaking takes many formats in cultures around the globe, across lifeforms, and to the subatomic level. Shaking is one of the body's natural impulses to relieve tension.

Who is this for?

This is for anyone who loves to shake! Or anyone who is curious around how this would feel, what this would disturb and what this would settle. This is for people who want to develop more awareness of their bodies. This is for anyone who has a creative practice and needs disruption, a reallocation of their cells. This is for you! And for me - I really want to do this.

I (Carmen) have learnt this from Anya Smolnikova at the Field Center in Vermont. Anya has learnt it from Jared Williams. Jared learnt it from Leslie Castellano who learnt it from Tove Sahlin. 

** In essence, the Axis Syllabus is a dynamic and evolving system that empowers individuals to understand, optimize, and move with greater awareness and skill.