For dancers and teachers with five or more years of training.

ANIMAL BODY / HUMAN BODY
By Mesma Belsaré
Classical dance trains us to shape the visible body with extraordinary precision. Beneath that cultivated surface lives another body. Older. Instinctive. Fully awake.
This movement intensive for dancers and teachers draws on Mesma Belsaré’s choreographic research. Through guided movement explorations and compositional exercises, participants explore the body’s instinctive animal center—the foundational layer from which expressive movement emerges.
The workshop culminates in a choreographed movement study.

FLIPPING NARRATIVES
By Wendy Jehlen
Through an athletic, full body movement experience drawing on a range of Capoeira, Kalaripayattu, Bharatanatyam, and Butoh practices participants will interrogate the cultural narratives and individual narratives we hold in our minds, our literature and our bodies.

SCHEDULE
ANIMAL BODY / HUMAN BODY
9:30am – 11:15am | Workshop
11:15am – 11:30am | Break
11:30am – 1:00pm | Workshop

1:00pm – 2:00pm | Lunch (please bring your own lunch, lunch will not be provided)

FLIPPING NARRATIVES
2:00pm – 3:30pm | Workshop
3:30pm – 3:45pm | Break
3:45pm – 5:15pm | Workshop

5:25pm – 6:00pm | Conversation

Dress code: Come dressed to move fully. Wear fitted or semi-fitted clothing that allows corrections along the line of your spine, hips and shoulders. No shorts, loose sweatshirts or pants that are baggy around the waist and ankles. You may wear leggings, dhoti style drapes, loose salwars or dance pants, with a fitted top or dance-wear. Minimal jewelry, if possible. Hair secured and off the face and neck.