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Sasha Lasdon, a certified facilitator of and faculty with the School of Consent, will guide us through the embodied practices of the Wheel of Consent. We’ll have an opportunity to experience these embodied practices that invite us to:
- connect and understands ourselves more deeply
- explore and examine how we make choices
- feeling our Yes and No in our bodies
- explore ways to create clearer agreements about what we may or may not participate in
- experience a set of practices and tools
As people who explore movement and contact improvisation (CI), the facilitators have experience with unspoken agreements, sensed through our bodies in movement with others. The Wheel of Consent offers tools for exploring limits (what I’m not willing to participate in) and desires (what I want to participate in or make happen) that can bring moments of clarity to improvised movement practices that have paradox and complexity. The practices and concepts of the Wheel of Consent can help us notice moments and dynamics in our dancing, helping us clarify by asking the question, “who is it for?”. We will explore places the Wheel of Consent and improvised dance practices overlap: the act of noticing, of being with and directing our attention.
The first 2.5 days of the workshop will be a full introduction to the Wheel of Consent. No prior experience with the Wheel of Consent necessary.
The CI component of this workshop is an opportunity to hone and deepen a current practice of CI/dance/movement. We invite participants to have experience with navigating dance spaces, jams or workshops, but any level experience with movement is welcome. We might play with negotiated dances, witnessing, as well as moments of discussion.
Optional pre-reading: The Art of Receiving and Giving, by Dr. Betty Martin
What is CI?
(a definition from Kathleen Rea)
Contact Improvisation is a social dance involving touch, in which momentum between two or more people is used to create and inspire dance movements. Dancers move with a constantly changing physical reality. There are no set leaders and followers. Techniques include graduated weight pouring, rolling point of contact, balancing over a partner's centre of gravity, and “surfing” momentum. While there is technique involved, the aesthetic often reached for is the quality of the relationship and communication within a dance. It welcomes dancers of all levels and abilities
