Well-being, Resilience and Healing

About this event

A movement workshop with Charlie Brittain and Kirstie Simson. There is deep inspiration and rigour in a practice of improvisation that posits vulnerability at its heart. Developing the skills to be able to care for, engage, respect, and respond to that state of openness in oneself, others and our environment generates creative work that is powerful and transformative. Learning from a place of interconnectedness can give us the resilience and insight to face life's challenges and complexities. In honouring our body's innate attraction and drive towards wholeness, balance, creativity & healing, we will explore embodied intelligence and imagination utilising dancing practices that emerge from the radical softness of the heart-space. These reflective practices support us in witnessing the transformation and joy that is realised through the challenging simplicity of experiencing our bodies in motion. Over the course of the workshop, we will journey through shared dancing, scored movement explorations and space for group processing - affirming the poignancy of our human connectedness, and its implications for health and resilience in facing the universal and personal challenges of our lives today. The work emerges from the grounding of care gleaned from their extensive collective experience, comprising improvisation, Contact Improvisation, contemporary dance, Alexander technique, bodywork and myofascial release, movement rehabilitation, human biomechanics, musculoskeletal health, integrative health practice, Aikido, meditation and emergency care. Open level workshop offering valuable information for dancers, movement practitioners and health professionals including those with little or no experience. Includes performance "dying duets | shimmering" on 26 September 20:00.