~ Embodied Imagination ~ Deep Play & Ritual Performance ~
Sat, Dec 6th | 10am - 4pm @ Haw Creek Commons
Sun, Dec 7th | 10am - 6pm @ The Worthan Center
| A Weekend Workshop hosted by The Deep Play Institute |
Our time together will explore how imagination moves through the body and how movement, in turn, shapes the imagination. On Saturday we will offer three workshops that each approach this question from a different angle: the shadow and its expression, the strange as a path to joy, and the subtle body as a field of sensation and dream. We see the weekend as a study in transformation—how form gives way to feeling, how inner experience takes shape in gesture and relation. On Sunday we will weave the strands of these workshops together into a performance ritual for a wider audience.
—✨ Saturdays Workshops ✨—
||| Dancing our Edges ||| (Aaron Finbloom)
For this workshop block we will use techniques drawn from processwork, psychodrama, butoh and clowning to dance the more shadowy side of our psyche. Some of the activities at this workshop may include: a) warmups that involve exaggerated emotional gestures, laughing, crying and extreme gesticulations b) a here-and-now practice whereby a single participant stands up in front of the group, names emotions, and then is encouraged to express one of those emotions through a march or dance c) psychologically challenging scenes devised by the facilitator that present a singular image for participants to dance simultaneously in the room d) participants creating their own singular, clear image from some challenging content within their psyche to attempt to dance.
||| The Joy of Being Weird ||| (Aurora Kaï Sunrise)
This playful, heart-centered workshop is a celebration of our wild, tender humanity. Through movement, voice, and group connection, we explore awkwardness and weirdness as a bridge between shame and joy. Participants are guided to bring their hidden, “too much/not enough” parts into expression—first by embodying the shapes and sounds of shame, then transforming them through humor, absurdity, and authentic play. As individual weirdness merges into a shared sound–movement field, what once felt heavy becomes light. Together we remember that our strangeness is sacred, our joy is medicine, and freedom begins when nothing needs to be hidden.
||| Dancing the Subtle Body |||
:Color, Dream, Shimmer, Shake! (Ben Korta)
This workshop will explore a spectrum of states of embodied consciousness, ranging from liminal dream to ecstatic tremors, quivers, and shakes of rapture. Guided by curiosity and care, and via a number of somatic and artistic tools, we’ll engage the images, sensations, metaphors, and narratives that appear when we move toward the subtle depths of our embodied imagination. These tools will include yoga nidra, color/drawing, authentic movement, parts work practices, somatic divination, extended shaking, and club-worthy beats. At the workshop's end, we’ll move, dance, and release these energies in a “somatic dance party” inspired by everything we discovered.
— 🎭 Sunday Preparations for Ritual Performance 🎭—
On Sunday we will present the group with a score for our evening ritual performance. This score will be an amalgam of the techniques and practices from the Saturday workshops. Sunday will be devoted to learning this score, and then performing it together in front a small audience at 4pm.
🌾— PRACTICALS DETAILS —🌾
— Structure —
Saturday Dec 6th 10am-4pm | Sunday Dec 7th 10am-6pm, with a performance from 4:30-6pm. Participants should bring a light lunch with them for both Saturday and Sunday as we will be taking a short 30-45 minute lunch break on both days which cannot accommodate going out to eat in the area.
— Price —
Tuition price is tiered based on an sliding scales of income/subsistence. Financially Abundant $200 / Financially Secure $150 / Financially Strained $100
— Sliding Scale —
Please try to reasonably and honestly select the price that reflects your economic situation. If you are unable to find a price that is suitable for you, please get in touch [
dGhlZGVlcHBsYXlpbnN0aXR1dGUgfCBnbWFpbCAhIGNvbQ==]. We are committed to covering our basic costs, while also making this possible for everyone who needs it.
— Venue —
The workshop will be held at 2 different venues. Our Saturday workshop will be held at Haw Creek Commons. And the Sunday workshop ill be at the Wortham Center in downtown Asheville.
| More Info & How to Sign Up |
https://www.deepplayinstitute.com/asheville.html
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