Rediscovering the Collective Body: You Contain Multitudes

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Dance Workshop

Rediscovering the Collective Body: You Contain Multitudes

while we often experience ourselves as one discrete packet of individual humanity, we can practice deeper compassion for ourselves when we recognise that we are created from an intricate coalescence of energies, experiences, and organisations of matter. with water as our primary teacher, we will move through, from, and with our bodies’ sensory systems intuitively in order to build trust, cohesion, and easeful articulation within ourselves and with our space. this will be a three-hour workshop with breaks as needed, open to all levels. please bring a journal and a writing tool.

Saturday, February 26th from 1 to 4pm

$55($45 for members) 

Masks, vax'd, and distancing for staff and participant safety. 

About the instructor: pamôsaljit

pronouns they/agma

i am a white nonbinary transdisciplinary artist and teacher from unceded Peskotomuhkate (“Passamaquoddy”) and Panewapskek (“Penobscot”) land. i received my name, which means “the one who carries [it] along” (i.e., taking a joke “way too far”), from Jesse Bruchac of the Nulhegan Band of Abenakis, and i honour it by teaching and speaking alnôbaôdoa/Western Abenaki at every opportunity. my current research explores selfhood as nexus, and dives into how we can cultivate a movement practice that is gentle, sustainable, kind, and ecologically informed. my studies have included a wide variety of movement methods, such as Graham Technique, contact improvisation, Authentic Movement, ballet, Gaga, contemporary, and circus arts/cirque nouveau. i am grateful to have learned from such considerate movers as Ishmael Houston-Jones, Miguel Gutierrez, Susan Sgorbati, Kieth Hennessey, Netta Yureshalmy, Tommy DeFrantz, Deborah Black, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Cassils, and many others. my practice is heavily informed by chronic illness, queerness, and neurodivergence, and is deeply rooted in healing through anti-colonialism and reindigenisation.

If you need to cancel your registration, please contact office@artwavesmdi.org. Your account will then reflect a credit that may be used toward future classes.