Feral Feelings: Moving to the Beat of what we Disown

Come play at the edge of what you can control. Jealousy, tenderness, boredom, the urge to bolt from the room. These kinds of emotions come over us and seem beyond our control. Yet they are more than just emotions. They have a direction, a movement, a whole constellation of images that come with them. In this workshop, we’ll learn to hold them with a little love and a little distance, and then dance them and voice them, following them on their own terms with a sense of beauty and aesthetic fascination.

For two hours we’ll borrow from butoh, clowning, authentic movement, psychodrama, and authentic relating. We may occasionally move intentionally into a character or archetype. But more often we’ll wait and see who shows up: a feeling, a part of you, a voice, an energy. Then we’ll play with it, alone and with each other, mostly through body and voice, sometimes with words.

Why? Much of what’s hard in life erupts into us without our asking. What’s strange or out of our control often points to the parts of us we’ve pushed away, parts which are secretly wishing to return. Instead of hoping to finally heal these parts and perfectly integrate them, this workshop assumes there’s another way to orient toward life’s mess: learn to be with it, and love it for the beauty it already contains.

PRICE: Our registration is tiered based on an sliding scales of income/subsistence.

Financially Abundant $40
Financially Secure $30
Financially Strained $20
BIPOC $20