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Four equal sized quadrants with images of various body parts of people moving in living rooms. Counterclockwise from upper left. First shows a closeup of part of a wrist in front of a small body from stomach to upper thighs. Next, a blurry group of blocky shapes. Below is the back of a torso in motion wearing a black and white striped shirt. Next, in a blurry living room, is a side view of the lower part of a face and an upper body in a black shirt with one arm raised. Screenshot by L Nelson.
ID: Four equal sized quadrants with images of various body parts of people moving in living rooms. Counterclockwise from upper left. First shows a closeup of part of a wrist in front of a small body from stomach to upper thighs. Next, a blurry group of blocky shapes. Below is the back of a torso in motion wearing a black and white striped shirt. Next, in a blurry living room, is a side view of the lower part of a face and an upper body in a black shirt with one arm raised. Screenshot by L Nelson.

Composition, as in perception, organization, pattern, image.
Communication, as in touching and being touched by the (inner-outer) environment.
Imagination, as in: how does your body build an image?

Focusing on movement patterns of vision, touch, and hearing, Tuning Score practices reach into one’s body’s ways of organizing sensation and attention. How do each of us sense and make sense of movement?

In these few short sessions, I’ll offer explorations and questions that I’ve found can be practiced anywhere all day long. Giving time to experience how these patterns predetermine what we perceive, how they direct our desire and shape our interaction with our environment, how they inform what we imagine when we are attending to anything, how they affect our appetites for movement, stillness, and dancing, how they can be building blocks for cultivating a personal technique and choreographic vision.

And, at the least (since the above seems very ambitious), how our sensing patterns can change through play with their movement component, cutting the imagination loose.

What to expect:
Since this is a remote workshop, I will be mostly guiding through speaking. There are no prerequisites for previous experience with dance. Just the desire to explore what the workshop description indicates.

For MELT-related questions, please email melt@movementresearch.org.

 

Accessibility Notes

  • This workshop includes auditive guidance.
  • Automated closed captioning through Zoom is available.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, MELT Lisa Nelson” at least three (3) weeks prior to the first date of the workshop.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “MELT Lisa Nelson.”

Register for this workshop

Virtual

    This workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $100-$175.

    Participants must register for the full workshop, there are no drop-ins.

    $140

    Select a price within the Sliding Scale range

    Artists

    Lisa Nelson

    Lisa Nelson

    Lisa Nelson is a dance artist and explorer of the role of the senses in the performance and observation of movement. She is intrigued by dance behaviors, systems of transmission and translation, patterns of surviving culture, and the sense of imagination.

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