June 8 – 9. 2019 (Saturday – Sunday)
East Bay Community Space
507 55th street,
Oakland, California
COCRÉA is an improvisational partner dance practice for
developing presence, opening gateways to creativity, empowering mindful leaders
and followers and generating authentic connection in relationship.
In this weekend workshop, facilitators Wren LaFeet and
Usha Rose will guide participants into an experiential embodiment practice
based in the forms of many of the world’s social partner dance techniques,
while inviting and allowing an easeful flow of ideas to emerge through
listening and responding to the moment. Familiar techniques woven together in
this practice include contact improvisation, blues, tango, fusion, and more!
As we hone this dynamic, kinetic toolbox, we emphasize
connection, communication and presence between two people within a community of
others. Allowing intuition and feeling to guide the partnership, their centers
and frames to support it, Cocréa celebrates our ability to embody profound joy
through being in a body moving in harmony with another body while honing
mastery and individual genius.
Weaving the threads of collaboration, cross-pollination
and consciousness, the practice focuses on how dance can enhance and expand
relationships into a deeply connected, honest and powerful tool for personal,
interpersonal and collective transformation.
COCRÉA FUSION WEEKEND WORKSHOP ▬
Goals of Instruction
* Give you empowerment to enter into partnership
confidently on any dance floor regardless of musical genre or dance style.
* Provide a context for you to connect in a positive,
supportive and mutually enjoyable manner.
* Expand your movement vocabulary by guiding you through
a progressive curriculum.
* Gain greater body awareness and sensitivity – both
physical and emotional – to your partner.
* Practice deep listening to adjust and adapt to what is
emerging between you and your partner in keeping with good consent.
* Build physical, emotional and spiritual resilience to
change.
* Grow into releasing expectations and agendas.
* Learn to invite, allow, accept and embrace what is.
Benefits
* Develop mindfulness and deeper body awareness.
* Open gateways to your creative mind.
* Exercise confidence in all your interactions.
* Get an excellent, full body workout.
* Learn and practice valuable consent tools for being in
integrity in all your interactions.
* Nurture authentic, compassionate and intimate
connections to those with whom you relate.
* Create calm in your life through engaging mirror
neurons and offering your body the touch it needs without expectations,
attachments or entanglements.
* Increase your intelligence through the one activity
scientifically shown to activate the neuroplasticity of the brain and decrease
the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's more than any other - social partner
dance!
Cost: $45 - $155
