classes/ workshops/ creative process/ individual support
Humaning
“Improvisation is a life skill,
because life is an improvisation.”
Welcome to the conversation.
I have been developing these practices, which I collectively call
Humaning, since 2015.
Humaning is a synthesis of
Gaga (certified teacher 2010-2014), Authentic Movement, Contemplative Dance Practice, Contact Improvisation, Contact Beyond Contact, solo and group improvisational strategies and scores, explorations of the energy body (informed by eastern wisdom traditions — particularly Daoism and qigong) a growing understanding of the nervous system, including polyvagal theory/ the polyvagal ladder, tools for down-regulation and when to utilize them,
an animist worldview,
and an awareness that our stories —
individual, collective, ancestral — live in our bodies as well as our psyches.
These explorations are invited and held within a frame that recognizes physical practice as
a metaphorical landscape/ relational microcosm through which emerges
insight about the larger dance of life.
These offerings have coalesced as the fruits of several decades worth of movement practice, performance in a variety of contexts, self-directed study and learning with and from many inspiring teachers — as well as the meanderings, triumphs and f(l)ails of personal lived experience.
They can be organized as stand alone experiences, in ongoing series, and as deep-dive intensives,
made open to the public or held as closed sessions with existing groups,
such as dance/ theater/ performance companies, schools & universities, conferences, retreats, & festivals.
The aim of these offerings is to support humans humaning increasingly well in their individual and collective, mundane and artistic processes. To that end, all pricing is determined on a case by case basis, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
If the work calls to you, reach out — we will find a way to make it accessible.
moving from listening
a contemplative dance practice
finding stillness ~ moving from listening ~ responsive, compositional play
letting the body lead ~ being as the ground for doing
