Attention as Navigation: An Improvisational Dance Workshop with Alexander Davis

This workshop invites dancers of all levels to discover how focused awareness can unlock spontaneous, authentic, and unexpected expression through the body. Drawing from diverse movement practices including Viewpoints, Contact Improvisation, and improvisational comedy, participants will engage in a series of guided exercises designed to sharpen perceptual awareness and develop trust for one’s own instinctive responses. Dancers will practice noticing what captures focus, what creates curiosity, and what demands presence in each moment. The workshop emphasizes the triangulation and queer interplay between internal sensation, external awareness, and the imagination, teaching dancers to navigate the space between emergence and action that defines improvisation.

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• This Tuesday, 16th December, 07:00 pm, Alexander Davis: "Gay Aesthetics: Based on a True Story" Performance @ Scripps Studios in Durham

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