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Stepping into the unfamiliar comes with a sense of risk. What is going to happen? How will I fare in this uncharted experience? What could be lost or changed forever?It also comes with tremendous promise and possibility. Visions, dreams, longings and wishes have the potential to be realized. Creativity and opportunity are omnipresent. Liberation has its chance.The edge between known and unknown is place where anything could happen. It is a potent, charged interim of time-space that tests our capacity for tolerating difference and trusting change.In this workshop we inhabit the edge. We pause on the cusp of the usual to research a leap into the unusual. What are our habitual moves in the face of change? How do we somatically cultivate a sense of ready adaptability, malleability and flexibility? Can we learn what best supports us as we enter a new world?
Join us as we explore Embodiment practices for entering the unknown
Meshi Chavez (he/him) is a queer dance maker, movement facilitator and choreographer. He specializes in Butoh taught in North America under masters Denise Fujiwara and Natsu Nakajima. He has taught, presented and performed conscious movement nationally and internationally for the last 20 years and holds a Masters degree in Fine arts. His work is predicated on the concept that creativity is our birthright.
LOCATION: Railyard Performance Center, Santa Fe
DATES: August 2nd - 4th
TIMES: Friday 6:00-8:30, Saturday 2pm-7pm, Sunday 2pm - 6pm.
PRICE: $195
Conscious Dance inspires and invites us to open to, move with, express, and release all the many aspects and energies that make up our individual and collective humanity. It is a practice that welcomes the totality of who we are. That welcome is not just for the parts of ourselves that we are happy, accepting, and OK with. It is also for the bits that we push away and deny. Giving those parts even just a little bit of freedom to breathe and move leads to wholeness of being and liberates, for our use and enjoyment, vast amounts of energy that are otherwise locked down. All of Me is a celebration of the totality of who we truly are!
Each year we call together the greater dancing tribes from the four corners of the earth. Set right in the heart of summer, this workshop features five amazing movement teachers, representing 5Rhythms, Open Floor, Azul, and Soul Motion, each with a unique offering on this year’s shared theme. Our Gathering is composed of embodied dancers from around the world and a fabulous catered celebratory dinner together. Join new friends and old for a remarkable weekend of joyful movement and discovery.