Movement Workshop with clyde fusei forth: Radical With-ness and Radiant Awareness

In our somatic warmup we’ll connect to ourselves and the so-called “externals”; moving freely in relation to sensory experiences. Then we’ll get up to some juicy dancing that honors the individuals present and addresses some of my current choreographic and spiritual questions: How does movement/dance that comes from a place of radical withness benefit a viewer or audience? Can we make conscious movement choices without separating or making it “thinky”? How can we develop joy while doing the hard, sometimes deeply uncomfortable work of being fully at ease with ourself while offering ourself? What can we learn about karma and compassion through this kind of dance improvisation that asks us to see ourselves clearly, notice our habitual ways of participating, and change that for the benefit of self and other right in the moment of participation? We’ll get into these questions with the light aspiration to create something together that brings each of us deeply inward and closer to each other.

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clyde fusei forth is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently living in upstate New York. She has been creating and producing original dance works for over 25 years, while also appearing in projects co-created with other dance makers and creating site-specific visual theater works.

fusei is a postulant monastic at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, NY where she creates and teaches improvisation as time allows. Improvisation and its relationship to spiritual practices is one of her core interests as a performer and teacher.

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