Three Tools; a Movement Workshop

• Dates:
  • Saturday July 12, 10 am - 1 pm
  • Saturday July 12, 3 pm - 6 pm
  • Sunday July 13, 10 am - 1 pm
• Location: Vangeline Theater: 126 10th street Suite 207 Brooklyn 11215
• Tuition: Sliding scale $90 - $270
• Class Size: 12
• Application: Here

The Workshop

Rather than focusing on a particular vocabulary or technique this workshop takes three fundamental tools used across different movement practices: perception, imagination, and trance in order to grant students more learning autonomy, experiential breadth, and insight depth across their practices.

Ideal for those who sense movement to be metaphysical, this workshop will dance with the philosophical; we will take support on philosophers of dance and martial arts to enlarge and clarify the possibilities of movement.

Expect short readings (to complete before the workshop); solo, partner, and group exercises; a group drink/ lunch at the end of each course for longer discussions; lots of reading and practice recommendations to continue the exploration.

(An alternative name for this course would have been: Cheap Travels! For the body is an endless landscape.)

The Schedule

| Trance | Saturday July 12, 10 am - 1 pm | - A conceptual clarification of the perennial link between trance and movement

• A cross-practice look at trance emphasizing states of modified consciousness as phenomena of gradation rather than “on/off” switches
• Practice on going into trance and returning from it in order to gain agency over our travels | | --- | --- | --- | | Imagination | Saturday July 12, 3 pm - 6 pm | - A conceptual framework that re-legitimizes different narrations of what the body is to bypass the limits of a solely scientific understanding
• Practice on how imagination can transform the experience of moving | | Perception | Sunday July 12, 10 am - 1 pm | - A conceptual framework highlighting enlarged perception as a potent political tool in movement
• Practice in allowing reality to bloom before us, exploring the endless riches of what is as an engine of endless movement |

The facilitator

Alicia Botero is a writer and mover from Colombia interested in being part of the wave creating new synthesis between moving and thinking.

She is a lover of Contact Improvisation, Qi Gong, Butoh, Tango, Systema, and Salsa; and a dabbler in Pochinko Clowning, Aikido, Gaga, Tai Chi, Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique…

Keen on a comparative approach to understand what movement can do for us, as individuals, communities, and societies, today.

The Tuition

Tuition is a sliding scale of anywhere from $90 - $270:

• $90 is basic-level tuition based on a $10/hour rate. It covers the cost of space and in-course instruction.
• $180 is general-level tuition, based on a $20/hour rate. This aligns with the cost of movement classes in NYC. It covers the cost of space, in-course instruction, and some teaching preparation.