Deeper study - Bluebeard - An Open Floor weekend at Poplar Union March 28th/29th 2020
Watch an introduction to the weekend here -
In our story Bluebeard marries the most sweet, the most vital person and sucks the life out of her.
And yet - this story is full of hope. No matter what has failed, fallen down or been cut off in its prime it can be righted. Curiosity has to come in to the picture. “What is this castle made of? “You begin to put all the keys in the locks and see what's behind the doors.
We will dance and dance and ask questions and make art with this ancient story to back us up.
As always I will be backed by a wonderful team and with Jana and Ann assisting me.
To book contact - wearemadeforthesetimes@gmail.com
Early bird until February 14th - £130 / 115 concessions.
Thereafter - £140 / £120
20% discount For OF teacher trainees.
This workshop counts as 12 hours towards Open Floor Teacher Training and as an elective.
We are made for these times Dear Dancers and wether we are impacted by the daily shocks in the news, or the ups and downs in our personal lives it seems important to have some tools to get alongside ourselves in rapidly changing times.
During these weekends a myth or story will be our backdrop and we will focus on making space so that we can tolerate our movement, feelings, our responses.
The good news ? This also connects us to our juice, our aliveness and our passion.
We will practice recognising feelings as simply physical energy that moves in and through our bodies
We will enquire
We will dance with instruction
We will have space to dance without instruction
We will dance to both contemporary and classical music
We will probably use sitting meditation practice
At least 3 classes of an Embodied Movement Practice required.
Each weekend is part of a series of explorations in conscious movement and meditation via Open Floor practice. Myself and my team feel passionate about providing nourishing weekends to restore, rest back in to practice and remember why we love to move. You are welcome to attend one or all weekends
For dancers who haven’t worked with stories and / or myself before -
This is an opportunity to dance all weekend backed up by a powerful story.
Just as in the dance we use music to catalyse rather than run us, here we also listen to and embody how we relate to the characters in the story.
The characters - even the seemingly bad ones - are a treasure store and some essential part of the hero/ine would usually not have manifested if they hadn’t turned up to poke them in horrible or less evil ways!
We ask the characters to show us how they are moving through us right now, how they breathe, how they show up as repetitive phrases, what their intention is, how they want to participate in our life - just like we ask of our body - how is my breath right now? What is alive in me right now? Can I include my attitude right now? Its not acting - more a moving flow of imagination. A useful phrase if this worries you might be - How might i move if i didn’t have to do it perfectly?
I have found that it doesn’t seem to matter what our gender is - the characters show up as they do - Mothers sometimes have masculine forms in our psyches or are creatures or something other than expected even if in the story they are pale and sweet and blonde - the trick is to not let our ego negate what shows up - if its nourishing let it stand.
In Vasilisa we are particularly looking at how she brings back fire, the capacity to stand in her power and what stands in her way so that we can look at our own capacity to stand in our power and act and see what might be hindering us.
We will dance a lot
We will use active imagining
We will write
We will make art
I hope you will join us
To book contact Mike - wearemadeforthesetimes@gmail.com
Early bird until February 14th - £130 / 115 concessions.
Thereafter - £140 / £120
20% discount For OF teacher trainees.
This workshop counts as 12 hours towards Open Floor Teacher Training and as an elective.
Our team are dedicated to offering nourishing and thought provoking weekends. We hope you can come.
10 - 5 pm
Poplar Union
Nearest tube - Mile End plus 10 mins bus ride (very frequent)
West ferry DLR plus 15 mins walk.
Check https://tfl.gov.uk/ for any issues on the day
Nearest free parking - surrounding roads.
Bike parking - check with the team as we can keep your bikes locked inside the venue.
Pre-requisites - At least 6 classes in an Embodied Movement Practice required
This workshop counts as 12 hours towards Open Floor Teacher Training and as an elective.
http://www.openfloor.org
All weekends count towards pre-requisites for teachers in training, electives and those considering following an Open Floor teaching path