CULTURAL SOMA | SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 24
This is a 6-week Committed Series. Attendance at all sessions is requested. Missing one session can be arranged.
Cultural Soma explores how socio-political and historical contexts influence our embodiment. How has our social conditioning limited or promoted specific patterns of sensation, movement, gesture, use of space? To what extent have these patterns become habitual, and how conscious are we of them? If our embodiment is shaped by society, can we reshape society by transforming ourselves?
What is “Critically-Conscious Dance”?
The term "Conscious Dance" was coined by Mark Metz, a DJ and entrepreneur, who founded the publication Conscious Dancer in 2007. It came to describe any unchoreographed, intention-driven movement practice conducted in a group setting where drugs and alcohol are not permitted. Practices like the 5Rhythms often fall under this umbrella term.
Critical consciousness, a concept developed by Brazilian educator, activist, and theorist Paulo Freire, involves questioning the socio-political and historical contexts in which one lives to understand, transform, and be liberated from them.
In Critically-Conscious Dance, we build on foundational elements of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms to question how socio-political and historical contexts inevitably move within us, between us, and shape our dance floors.
LOCATION: Move Studio
DATES: Thursdays September 12, 19, 26 + October 3, 17, 24
TIME: 6:00 pm - 8:15 pm
PRICE: $150 no one turned away.