Dance

I took part in a full day workshop on Saturday 6th December run by Theatre Network NSW (TNN) and SeedArts, in partnership with Arts Northern Rivers, focused on exploring creative practice, collaboration and the climate change emergency. Super interesting workshop. Very different to the types I would normally attend, take part in or deliver. The embodied movement  provocations were extremely foreign to me. I have no dance or theatre background. One of the activities was to demonstrate with your body only the values you would like the world to either move away from or head towards. I sat down in a kinda meditative position. My loose attempt at demonstrating less talking less travel less consumption etc. After a few seconds I hear one of the facilitators say something like, “if you are new to this space you need to move around you can’t just stay still”. Which I assumed was directed at me. So my next attempt was to simply shift from there to a number of stretch like movements I do without thinking every morning whilst sitting on my rug with a coffee. Probably not much better but at least I was now constantly moving. When you link things together like that it can kinda feel like a dance. We were asked to express anything we realised during the activity. What I realised, and perhaps have even thought about before, is that many of the movements I make each day could be considered a form of dance. 

For

Personal Exploration.

Image

Old Longboard ⎮ Cabarita NSW ⎮ 16:9 ⎮Landscape ⎮ Shot By Mum ⎮ 2023 (I think)

Thanks

Pippa Bailey (TNN, Sydney), co-convenor of Cultural Gardeners, producer and creative justice activist, supported by dancer/ performer Tora Crockford (SeedArts, Northern Rivers)

Note

This wasn’t the most enlightening or powerful thing I realised on the day – just the first of many.

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