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What = A creative movement and self expression workshop with Atlas Growing
When = 28, 29 APR
Time = 4 – 7 PM
For = This workshop is aimed at movers of all levels from advanced to never practiced movement arts.
Fee = Rs 1500 for 1 day / Rs 2500 for 2 days
Participants only need to bring themselves and wear comfortable clothing.
|| About the workshop ||
Description and Benefits
Day 1: The Movement Circle
The Movement Circle is about self-expression, holding space, and community. It is a gathering for people to move and share what they need to through their bodies in a safe and open environment. It starts with guided movement and exercises that help connect people with their bodies, encourage creative movement and get out of their head. We explore story telling through the body; connect with the elements; explore different textures of movement; and connect with each other.
After this section we have a sharing session, where each mover gets the chance to share while the rest of
the group sits and holds space for them. This session is incredibly powerful, beautiful and healing. I have seen people transcend language and enter one of the most purest and sacred forms of communication, which is direct from soul to soul.
Without saying a word there is perfect understanding of what that person is going through in their life. Regardless of if someone is a trained dancer or never danced a day in their life it is a gift of greatest beauty to observe people sharing in movement. By the point in the gathering that we get to sharing, people have already become comfortable in their bodies and in the community enough to freely express themselves.
The Movement Circle is a unique and beautiful opportunity to deeply connect to others, to release massively what one has weighing upon them and hold sacred space where each person is being true. It is healing, inspiring and fulfilling because of the visceral honesty and acceptance experienced as a community.
Day 2: Movement Weaving and Togetherness
Involving creativity, dance making, and contact improv. Contact Improv is a form of dance that is centered on human connection and exploration. Through contact and movement the movers can create and discover such expansive movements and flows. In my workshop I start with a meditation, then move naturally into movement, exploration with hands, then expand into the body. I guide people through weight sharing, dynamic textures, tempos and levels.
I connect people with different elements, different characters and have them explore how those characters interact with each other. Then we will move into solo and group dance making. I will guide people to weave movement that allows what needs to be expressed to come through. We will have space to share and develop our work. The workshop ends with a grounding meditation, yoga cool down and sharing circle in case people want to verbalize their experience.
|| About the Facilitator ||
Atlas Growing grew up in North East Oregon, USA where she has been training in hiphop, jazz and contemporary since she could walk. In her teenage years she left home to continue her training in Portland, and delved into improvisation, fusion and dance making as well as continued her formal training in Modern, Jazz and Ballet. She took time out to hit (street dancing in train stations and streets) in New York City where she developed her knowledge and connection of hip hop culture, popping and street dance. She then studied West African Dance, Ballet, Modern, and Cultural Studies of Dance at Columbia College Chicago. Now she travels the world teaching and performing. She has shared her work in the US, SE Asia and India. Her greatest passion is to inspire and hold space for others to express themselves and experience freedom through dance.
