Body Of Sound
Breath and voice are components that support movement dynamics. Join a week focused on voice-movement principles and practices. We warm up to vibration, liven to impulse, sample vowels and consonants, run into rhythms, stir the soundbody and its yearnings. We move through the lens of immune integrity with its thread of intention upon action’s ground. We unfold voice-movement vignettes, gateways to personal balance and performance reach.

For Dancers and Performing Artists
This workshop with Katie Duck introduces dancers, performers and musicians to the research that has evolved within her practice with Magpie (since 1995). Her recent research references are Alexander Techniqueâ„¢, brain studies, and popular culture. The content is geared toward artists who are interested in amplifying a performance setting as a live space with live public members using practices in collaboration, collectivity, and interdisciplinary as tools. Warm-up and exercises emphasize how the eyes and the ears work in coordination with movement, sound, and exposure to gathered crowds altering our perception of time, space and emotions. Improvisation sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit, and presence as mental choices, with discussions articulating play, memory, intuition, and feelings.

This Very Moment: Bodymind Practices for Spontaneous Dance
Dancing for the solitary traveler mingled with surrender to the herd, the flock, the mob. The ground is specific: the Five Eye Practices, solos in the four quadrants, ordinary gestures – lying, sitting, standing, walking – and risky influences. Personal coaching for vulnerability and revelations. Making all stillness and all movement elegant. ‘This very moment is always THE occasion.’ (CTR)