WEEK 1  

11.45 - 13.45

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PULSE….up to go down, down to go up

In this workshop we will practice a wide range of rhythms, steps, gestures, movement qualities and spatial formations. We will explore movement relationships found in tri-axial motions through walking, skipping, bouncing and jumping. We will glide, slide, bounce, jiggle, walk, jump, float...touching on various subjects within Chronological Architecture; receptive - propulsive systems, landing and launching, kinetic rhythmic forces and dynamic patterns.

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16.00 - 18.00

WAKING UP TO CONNECTIONS​

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This is a movement lab exploring our modes of bodying and moving in relation to site, the Berkshire hills.  In this double practice, moving and the apparatus of movement are both interrogated,  held accountable and examined. We will explore landing and launching, tone and tension, lead and lag, all movement practices in relation to our own bodies. While at the same time we will examine how our very movement, as nomadic dancers, is implicit in the flattening of the ground that allowed western dance as a colonial project to emerge. We ask:   How can our dancing attend to the grooves of the particular terrain where it presents itself? How can dance making practices create deeper and wider narratives of living and learning in connection with others and with the land that the practices are situated on?