Healing Arts: Guest Curated by artist & Watermill alum Ogemdi Ude

JOIN US | SATURDAY MAY 17  @ 12 PM
Moving through and with: An authentic movement exploration with Artist-in-Residence Leslie Cuyjet

This workshop invites participants to reconnect with their internal movement sources through somatic exploration and the practice of Authentic Movement. We'll begin with simple warm-ups, attuning to sensation, breath, and alignment. From there, we'll explore the relationship between sensation, impulse, and expression through varied structures of Authentic Movement—eyes closed, witnessed, and supported. This practice nurtures creative process, cultivates presence, and offers a regenerative approach to movement that centers internal experience over external form.

This class is open to everyone, including those with no movement experience.

HEALING ARTS
Led by a curated roster of artists and practitioners, Healing Arts invites the public to explore the intersection of art and wellness. Sessions are open to all skill levels and offer the opportunity to commune in The Watermill Center’s art-filled indoor or outdoor spaces.

Our 2025 Healing Arts series is guest curated by artist and Watermill alum Ogemdi Ude under the theme: The After Party.

THE AFTER PARTY
This series of workshops will feature artists and healing practitioners that use their practices to fantasize, tell stories, and imagine new worlds. In the midst of what feels like new apocalypses every day, it's pertinent that we design and move towards what’s next for our imperiled communities.

Can we still find joyful bodies, minds, spirits in the future, working through and past collapse?

About the Practitioner: Leslie Cuyjet (she/her) is a performer and choreographer in Brooklyn, New York. Her tenure in New York is decorated with performances and collaborations, both formal and informal; with contemporaries, legends, and counterparts; on rooftops, good and bad floors, and alleyways; on stage, in film, art, on tour, and on the fly; since 2004.

About the Guest Curator: Ogemdi Ude (she/her) is a dance and interdisciplinary artist and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme and queer legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, and Danspace Project.

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