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"Sell out warning! The final part in a trilogy of unique somatic dance workshops from the Body Language collective. Ritual Choreography will release you from your bodily prison through expressive movement; while also collectively co-creating a folk ritual for 2023."
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A event held at Strange Brew on Sunday 26th February. The event starts at 14:00.
BODY LANGUAGE PRESENTS
Ritual Choreography, 2pm - 5pm, Strange Brew.
Ritual Choreography is the third of three experiential workshops happening throughout February 2023. Each focuses on a different aspect of the moving self. Storyteller, ecosystem and social being. Participants are welcome to attend all or any of the sessions on offer.
Body Language are a dance collective that run open, integrative and somatic dance classes for people who want to explore movement in a creative, holistic and explorative way. These sessions aim to be inclusive to all abilities, ages and backgrounds. We aspire to help people celebrate and find expression through their most valuable and unique asset- the body.
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More about the workshops...
By finding safety in rhythm, regulation in repetition, and pleasure in play, this workshop invites the co-creation of a group choreography that supports accessibility, integration, belonging and transformational action.
These primary structures of rhythm, repetition and play function as a foundation on which to layer collective and archetypal symbolism, generating shapes, formations and motifs that are deeply embedded in the human experience. Drawing on ancestral and universal resources, we will move the question:
What would a folk dance for our fragmented times look like?
Here there is no agenda for perfection, glory or achievement; rather, we are dancing because we’re meant to dance. Because we must.
References to support the process will include mythic and spiritual imagery, Halprin’s Art/Life Process, participants' lived experience, and insights from the fields of Depth Psychology and Dance Anthropology. Alongside the development of choreography and introduction to movement technique, participants will engage in learning, reflection, improvisation, voicework and ritual preparations.
Contact: [email protected]
Please get in touch with [email protected] if the PWYC ticket price is a barrier for you. We want to ensure everyone who wants to be involved can be.
Paying full price enables someone with less means to attend at the lower price.
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This opportunity is part of the West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA), supported by Arts Council England. WEVAA is a consortium partnership of nine organisations co-lead by Spike Island and Visual Arts South West, and including the Brunswick Club, Bath Spa School of Art, Bristol City Council, Creative Youth Network, Culture Weston, North Somerset Council and UWE Bristol. This alliance is delivering a 3-year programme of activity with the aim of supporting visual arts progression in the region, and a collective vision for the visual arts in Bristol and the West of England to become more progressive, sustainable and inclusive by 2024.
Entry requirements:
Ritual Choreography, 2pm - 5pm, Strange Brew.
Ritual Choreography is the third of three experiential workshops happening throughout February 2023. Each focuses on a different aspect of the moving self. Storyteller, ecosystem and social being. Participants are welcome to attend all or any of the sessions on offer.
Body Language are a dance collective that run open, integrative and somatic dance classes for people who want to explore movement in a creative, holistic and explorative way. These sessions aim to be inclusive to all abilities, ages and backgrounds. We aspire to help people celebrate and find expression through their most valuable and unique asset- the body.
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More about the workshops...
By finding safety in rhythm, regulation in repetition, and pleasure in play, this workshop invites the co-creation of a group choreography that supports accessibility, integration, belonging and transformational action.
These primary structures of rhythm, repetition and play function as a foundation on which to layer collective and archetypal symbolism, generating shapes, formations and motifs that are deeply embedded in the human experience. Drawing on ancestral and universal resources, we will move the question:
What would a folk dance for our fragmented times look like?
Here there is no agenda for perfection, glory or achievement; rather, we are dancing because we’re meant to dance. Because we must.
References to support the process will include mythic and spiritual imagery, Halprin’s Art/Life Process, participants' lived experience, and insights from the fields of Depth Psychology and Dance Anthropology. Alongside the development of choreography and introduction to movement technique, participants will engage in learning, reflection, improvisation, voicework and ritual preparations.
Contact: [email protected]
Please get in touch with [email protected] if the PWYC ticket price is a barrier for you. We want to ensure everyone who wants to be involved can be.
Paying full price enables someone with less means to attend at the lower price.
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This opportunity is part of the West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA), supported by Arts Council England. WEVAA is a consortium partnership of nine organisations co-lead by Spike Island and Visual Arts South West, and including the Brunswick Club, Bath Spa School of Art, Bristol City Council, Creative Youth Network, Culture Weston, North Somerset Council and UWE Bristol. This alliance is delivering a 3-year programme of activity with the aim of supporting visual arts progression in the region, and a collective vision for the visual arts in Bristol and the West of England to become more progressive, sustainable and inclusive by 2024.
Entry requirements:
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