Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:45 PM – 5:45 PM
The Center SF
548 Fillmore St,
San Francisco, California
Exploring the Essence of Deep Connection that Underlies
All Partner Dance.
A continually evolving holistic movement modality, Cocréa
blends the connected fluidity of blues fusion dance, with the organic
expression of authentic movement, concepts from contact improvisation and a
contemplative approach to life. Whether you’re completely new to partner dance,
have been dancing fusion for awhile, or have a completely different embodiment
practice, this workshop is an opportunity to support you in taking your dance
experience to a new level!
Cocréa = Collaborative, Organic Communication,
Revolutionizing Embodied Awareness.
What is being offered:
Cocréa is as much a path of personal development as it is
a training ground to become a better dancer. This weekend will be an
exploration of embodiment, intimacy and refinement in listening - both with the
self and others. We will embrace form and structure and deepen into a practice
of presence with one another.
Playing within the structures common to many of the
world's social partner dances, dancers will learn tools to invite and allow an
easeful flow to emerge through deep listening and responding in presence with
the moment. Through meeting and joining energy, we emphasize connection,
communication and creative expression between two humans within a community of
others.
Themes we’ll play through:
• Polarity - the mutable energetics of lead and follow
• Consent
• Emergence
• Change and Co-Creation
• Pause
• Patience
• Stretching into discomfort and uncertainty
• What energy best supports listening?
What the attendee could learn/intention of the workshop:
• Core Stability & Balance
• Lead-Follow-Neutral Dynamics
• Variable Frames of Connection
• Accessing Intuitive Movement
• Expanding Connection Points
• Activating Your ‘Spinaesthesia’
Building on the foundational elements of social partner
dance technique as our common language, Cocréa teaches how to wield creative
expression with consideration to another body and practice nuanced
responsiveness to one another in improvisational, co-created dance. It is a
gateway to accessing the body’s wisdom to deepening Self and relational
attunement. Our intention is to explore form and play creatively from our
heart, body and spirit, in full support and appreciation of ourselves and one
another.
Experience level: This workshop is accessible to all
experience levels.
What attendees should bring: Comfortable clothes to move in. Two pairs of
socks.
A water bottle.
A snack to stay nourished.
Cacao will be provided.
Bios:
WREN LAFEET
Wren is an acclaimed master in his craft of Fusion
Partner Dance and has been named "the next voice in conscious dance"
by Soul Motion™ core faculty member, Aletia Alvarez.
A dancer in the Fusion social partner dance movement
since it began, Wren’s dancing defines Fusion as an emergent dance form based
in the spontaneous co-creation of new aesthetics. Fueled by his curiosity in
spirituality, sexuality, global community, the natural world and relationships,
and guided by his devotion to love and the idea of the Beloved, partner dance
has served as the vehicle for his inquiry and understanding. He has inspired
the formation of multiple fusion dance communities on the west coast of North
America, and teaches partner dance internationally as a practice for mindful,
authentic living, enlivening communities with his signature modality, Cocréa™.
His facilitation encourages individuals to create themselves as safer spaces
for the embodiment of the full range of human expression. Promoting dance as
medicine-- a spiritual salve for our modern ailments of disconnection and
alienation-- his practice insists we trust our bodies with the music and our
partner to catalyze elevating our whole being into higher vibrational states.
Cost: $45 - $80 (sliding scale)
