Embodied-somatic health experiences & visualization workshop

What will be doing: Somatic and dance lab workshopping the creation of movement phrases and visualizations via drawn/3D-renderings of body-felt sensations around self-selected memories/emotions. It will be an opportunity to inquire about emotional states and personal histories as well as speculative imagined avatars that can hold these experiences as well as their aesthetic qualities across space and time.

The workshop will be facilitated by artist, performer, and health advocate Justus Harris (he/they) who has worked with making the ephemeral aspects of chronic illness tangible and visible for the past ten years. Sophie Mars, a dance movement therapist, performer, and movement diretor will also be co-facilitating.

This workshop is not a therapy and although health and topics that may bring up intense emotions may come up, we ask for those attending to self-regulate and we will do our best to facilitate this in a way that supports this.

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Who is this for: This workshop is welcomes those with lived-health experiences across a wide spectrum of life experiences. These can include health conditions, disabilities that are visible or invisible, and/or neurodivergence. While these themes will take a central role of the workshop, self-identfication this way is not mandatory to attend.

Collective health protocols will be implemented for this workshop including free onsite COVID testing and FFP2 masks. This workshop is free of charge but requires pre-registration.

Brief-overview (see full agenda below):

The first part of the day will focus on movement and somatics.

The second part of the day will focus on translating these experiences into visual descriptions/forms and shared via 3D renderings (projected and shared in VR).

See Documentation of Earlier Development Workshop for context

As part of an anonymous process of feedback, there will be an opportunity for participants to provide insight into how they perceive invisible states of health and wellbeing before and after the workshop concludes.

Workshop Offering Takeaways:

• Increased awareness of emotional granularity that connects to an ability to translate specific feelings into movement / visual and sensory descriptions.
• Exposure to ways that technology and visual arts can inform somatic and dance based inquiries.
• Shared facilitated space with those with a focus on health and how to communicate about it outside of medical terms / healthcare objectives.

Funding and Support:

This workshop is supported by funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural and Social Cohesion.

More info about the location:

Studio 17 is part of the Wedding Uferstudios complex and is accessible via a 6.60 m long ramp with an incline of 5.2%.

Studio 17 space.

See map of Uferstudios.
https://www.uferstudios.com/en/spaces/studios

ALT Text for 1. Cover Image and 2. Studio image

1. Five people in pink hues in various poses and genders are dancing with a person in wheelchair on the fair right. Behind and slightly above them are five 3d-renders of figures in blue and various colors and lines tracing their movement. Black background.
2. ADance studio with white walls, light paneled floors, a table and some stair props and an open door to the outside with a translucent wall on the right and solid on the left.

Info: Soft arrival: Short anonymous optional baseline survey/questions

Info: inquiry on translation of emotion and lived-experience into movement phrases and sensory descriptions. Introduction of imagined avatars of emotional and sensory experience.

Info: Food will not be provided but water small snacks will be available, please plan accordingly. There are several restaurants in short walking distance.

Info: using 2D and 3D methods this will be an interactive session on how visualization and imagination of the aspects from part 1 of the workshop can be expressed.

Info: participants are encouraged to stay and connect as well as answer an anonymous optional survey on their experience post-workshop.

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