4 days: Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday & Sunday 9.30am-5pm, Monday 9.30am-4.30pm

£325*/ £350/ £375 as you are able. 
 * To request a lower priced ticket, please email Asher.

Workshop payment includes tuition only. Lunches may be bought at the Green Table Cafe. 

Where to stay on site: Ex-student rooms are £35 per night including breakfast (provisionally reserved for this workshop - write to guestservices@dartingtonhall.com). PLEASE NOTE When enquiring about accommodation with Dartington Hall, please quote: "Art of Movement with Soto, Leela Fisk & Asher Levin". Please let us know if they say they are fully booked; they are not, as they have reserved some rooms for us. 

On-site alternatives include Dartington Hall hotel or the Dartington Estate campsite. For alternative on-site accommodation go to Dartington Hall Trust accommodation 

Co-produced by Asher Levin and Leela Fisk. 
Questions to  Asher.Levin.mail@gmail.com or leeladance@gmail.com  

SOTO BIO:
G Hoffman Soto has been studying, practising, teaching and performing in the Movement Arts for over 50 years. Soto had a 45 year Artistic and Educational Relationship to Anna Halprin, San Francisco Dancers Workshop & the Tamalpa Institute. He taught Somatics and Experiential Anatomy for 25 years at New College of California in San Francisco. Soto has extensive martial art and bodywork experience including Craniosacral therapy and Ideokinesis. He has taught internationally since 1979 in 21 countries throughout Europe, Lebanon, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and China.

THE WORKSHOP:
We will develop a strong Somatic base to improvise from, opening into improvisation exercises covering solo, duets, trios and larger ensemble situations. This will include witnesses and a procedure for feedback. The Art of Movement is an approach in cultivating and developing a kinesthetic vocabulary to shape and expand our creative possibilities. Exploring and cultivating our personal Somatic presence and how it informs our movement to inspire and support creativity as both a personal and universal human act of empowerment and possibility. The objective being to support our unfolding and ripening as artists, educators and human beings. 

ABOUT SOMATICS:
What is Somatics? Soma is an ancient Greek word meaning body. Somatics is a practice in, with and through the body. Somatics looks at the individual as a functioning unit with all aspects of the individual - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual - impacting and influencing the others. The door into the somatic experience is through movement. As this practice unfolds it affords us the possibility to begin to contact deeper layers of musculature, organs, and soft tissue. Aspects of ourselves that reside below the conscious level become available and a resource in our work. These resources then influence and expand our expressive and creative possibilities. As we deepen and lengthen our time in the practice of being present in the body in movement, in the moment, it becomes who we are, we become embodied. The richness of this practice is that it is an ongoing lifetime study.

ABOUT DANCE & MOVEMENT:
We live in and through movement. The Body/Mind exists, expresses, and creates through movement. It has been said by many people many times that when there is no movement there is no life. Movement exists on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes. Using movement as a study of the self serves as a tool in our waking up, personal cultivation, and in our unfoldment. Dance is the use of time, dynamics and space to express and create with an energy flow that is moving inside and around us. This dance manifests as the life-force, our spirit, that wants to be revealed and brought into the light. Dance is a movement of sensation, perception, ideas, emotions, physical shapes, change, presence, and awareness. It is a reflection of where and who we are both internally and externally. Movement and Dance is a vocabulary that we can spend a number of lifetimes learning and still not embrace the immensity of it. The practice potentially makes us more and more refined in our movement and our life journey.

Ticket cancellation information and Terms and Conditions

Please email Asher if you need to cancel. Tickets are non-refundable, but you may transfer your ticket to another person.

If we have a waiting list, we will gladly offer your ticket to the top of the waiting list. If we successfully resell your ticket for you, we will deduct a 25% admin fee from your refund and will refund you 75% of your ticket price.

Eventualities:

Covid: If you have to cancel due to testing positive for Covid and officially must isolate over the workshop dates, you could transfer your ticket to another person, if you do not succeed in transferring to another then we will refund you 50% of the ticket price (the 50% covers loss of revenue, admin time & costs and provides the event with some security), unless we fill the space in which case from the waiting list in which case we will refund you 75% of your ticket price. We are unable to offer any refunds for withdrawing from the workshop due to o Covid after 7pm the day before the workshop has commenced unless we are able to replace you for the whole or the majority of the workshop from the waiting list, in which case we will offer a partial refund as appropriate. 

If Soto is unable to attend: In the highly unlikely scenario that Soto is unable to lead the workshop we would request that you accept a 75% refund. Leela and Asher, both experienced movement teachers, would, in this scenario, lead a one day workshop. This provides us with some security in these unusual times.

Co-produced by Asher Levin and Leela Fisk. 
Questions to Asher.Levin.mail@gmail.com or leeladance@gmail.com