Dance Improvisation, Practicing Presence and Performance

Join Hanna Satterlee, Director of ANIMAL Dance, to explore moving and dancing from an unplanned body. With thoughtful tactics and structured scores we will workshop multiple ways and styles of performing presence and cultivating connection beyond our own somatic experience.

We will play with spontaneous & impermanent dance creations, with the body as our tool and improvisation as our mechanism. Dance improvisation gives us practice in both being awake to making choices in the moment, as well as practice in learning to recognize the structure of the whole while simultaneously listening to our own loud inner experience.

With Hanna as the guide, we will experiment with such concepts on our own, collaborate playfully with one another, and spend time observing each others’ in-the-moment creations.

If the only thing constant is change, let us practice being awake and ready to participate.

Intermediate/Advanced

Ages 16+, experience recommended (this does not have to be formal dance training, but each participant should have a developed awareness of your body in space, and a mature understanding of the etiquette of collective dancing.)

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