May 7
morning session: 10-1pm | afternoon session: 2-5pm
*participants can come to single or both sessions
land-dance is a day-long offering led by multi-disciplinary dance artists lisa nevada and tyler rai. Morning and afternoon sessions will invite participants into lisa and tyler's approaches to dancing in/with the outdoors that include somatic exercises, improvisation, rigor, and play. Together, we will actively question and expand our ideas of where and when dance takes place in collaboration with the environment. We will open our senses to the land that surrounds us and explore how the natural world influences our breath, our movement, and our impulses. We will work with our senses, in slow, and rigorous ways, and be guided by movement scores and embodied invitations.
Resources will include the score booklet Flood Drafts: A Field Guide to Sensuous Repair compiled by the Hungry Mothers collective to assist our entry into land-based composition and gratitude for the earth. This workshop is designed for movers of all levels and abilities.
Suggested donation: $5 - $25 or bring something to offer to the group and/or land.
All outside! Please respect others’ space and comfort with regard to physical distancing.
About the facilitators:
lisa nevada spent most of her life in Nuevoméxico, but now follows a migration route that has placed her in an area of Lenape territory more commonly known as Brooklyn, NY. she is a naturalist, a dancemaker, collaborator & coconspirator, educator, and advocate for the Rights of Nature. encounters with humans and more-than-human bolster her desire to create offerings of performance and education that are centered on gratitude and ignites kinship with mama earth. her embodied research delves into sonic realms of lullaby and wailing in response to humanity’s active destruction of psyche and home.
Tyler Rai is a movement artist and writer currently based in Nipmuc/Pocumtuc Territories (Western Massachusetts). Through performance and movement improvisation, her research questions how we embody kinship and relational empathy with the other/more-than-human-world. Her works have been performed at Judson Memorial Church, ARC Pasadena, SPACE Gallery, SWALE (a barge and floating food-forest), Governors Island, and The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Her approach to performance and research is shaped by the work of multiple teachers including Anna Halprin, K.J. Holmes, Mina Nishimura, Emily Johnson and Suprapto Suryodarmo, among others. Rai is a founding member of the collaborative curatorial platform, ERRATICS, with artists/researchers Nina Elder and Hannah Perrine Mode, and is the instigator of the temporal collective, Hungry Mothers (www.hungrymothers.org). Rai received her B.A. from Bennington College and is a certified Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner.