Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST
East Bay Community Space
507 55th Street
Oakland, CA
CULTIVATE CONCEPTS OF CONSENT CULTURE IN YOUR DANCE, with
10x West Coast Swing Winner & Partner Dance Pro; SHANTALA DAVIS.
SHANTALA is passionate about giving dancers the tools to
create authentic connection, rich communication and efficient consent practices
in dance spaces.
She brings an understanding of embodied relating and
movement that can be applied to multiple dance dynamics, styles and every day
encounters.
SHANTI creates safe spaces for dancers to practice skill
and technique while also providing tools for trust-building and authentic
relating.
Shantala’s ability to translate social and mental
concepts into embodied practices transforms dance partnership to a level that
is both empowering and liberating.
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In this intensive you will…
* Navigate and communicate consent in your dance
connections and relationships.
* Build somatic awareness tools of self and others.
* Practice expressing and receiving ‘no's’, ‘yes’, and
‘maybe's’, gracefully.
* Build trust and connection in dance partnerships and
relationships.
* Negotiate and adjust boundaries and desires within a
dance.
* Learn partner dance frame-works, fundamentals and
techniques.
* Refine your dance communication skills.
* Explore realms of intimate connection in a partnered
dance.
* Deepen skill of embodied conversation.
* Cultivate a practice in translating somatic consent.
* Geek out on somatic communication, dance language and
techniques.
* Smile and dance, a lot.
Cost: $50 - $60
