June 2nd, 9th + 30th
TUESDAYS // 6:30pm-7:45pm
Special guest: Adrian Hutapea on June 2nd + 9th
Since December of 2022 we have been giving 10% of the proceeds from class to NAYA Native American Youth and Family Center. Together we have donated over $4000 and counting.
You must pre-register. Let's figure out how to do this together.
This class comes out of many years of movement study, curiosity, and play. Somatic leanings, movement improvisational scores, contact improv, authentic movement, contemplative dance, dance boot camp, and a fierce dance-your-ass-off-in-the-club shows up. Original music compositions, pop-culture songs, and abstract sound weaves through each class. it is a mash-up encouraging entanglement. It moves you and the class is moved by you.
For this hour and 15 minutes, your body is the guide as prompts are given, your body translates all that is into this moment of a miracle, of you being here right now. We dance our weird, sweaty, we can’t stop fucking shaking our bodies, we are alive, we are exhausted, we are feeling into our individual and collective grief, we are ecstatically moving our bodies in the SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME dance. Say it again: in the SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME! This is us being nimble and flexible and pushing up through the cracks because we lean into resource and our nervous systems need this in ways that are not possible to say or feel in words, and that is exactly why we move our bodies and dance. Help. Spread. The. Word.
It’s a fucking miracle we are here right now under and held by this sky. It’s a fucking miracle we breathe, we move, we sweat, we love, we anger, we feel anything at all, it’s a fucking miracle. It’s a fucking miracle we dance, we prance, we shake, we jazz finger it up sometimes. This is a dance party, an exercise class, a somatic lesson, a play date, it’s a fucking miracle. We are collective action and we are individual desire.
After much consideration masks are optional. Please do not come to class if you are not feeling well for whatever reason.
Photo credit: Ada Matusiewicz
It’s a Fucking Miracle with Tahni Holt + Luke Wyland
June 23rd
Tuesday // 6:30-8pm
10% of class proceeds go to Portland Immigration Rights Coalition (PIRC)
Earth/Sky focuses on sensitivity practices through somatic inquiry, improvisational movement scores, and Contemporary Alexander technique principles. A companion workshop to Holt and Wyland’s It’s a Fucking Miracle class, Earth/Sky goes deep into inquiries of grounding and gravitational support in one’s being. In Earth/Sky we swim into practices of embodiment where we sensitize into places we may be holding ourselves up, back, and/or in, and ask can we find movement through the cracks, can we rest into presence? Can we listen in on the dark recesses of our unconscious patterns? Can we integrate these practices in our everyday lives? Expect waves of rigorous movement exploration alongside slowed-down sensorial capacity-building practices. Prompts offer a starting point for exploration to facilitate new ways of moving and being. All are welcome, no prior movement experience needed.
photo credit: Ada Matusiewicz
After much consideration masks are optional. Please do not come to class if you are not feeling well for whatever reason.
Sunday June 28th 10am-4pm at Tryon Life Community Farm
Maximum Participants: 20
To RSVP it is in 2 parts. You must register to get your contact information to us and then you pay via venmo @flockdance or paypal: hello@tahniholt.com with a note that says: touch
$60 / $100 / $150 (restricted income / real costs / support access and scholarship)
Limited to 20 people.
Join Leland Hull and Tahni Holt for a multi-hour (2 years in the making) workshop outside in the wilds: The multi-directionality of touch
The workshop: This is a touch practice and a deep listening practice with ourselves and the sentient beings around us. It is a being-with practice. How do we open to the possibilities of being with each other, the land, the trees and the the swirl of negotiations that are always playing out in our inner landscape? We do this outside to peak our curiousity about all the ways we are touched by and touch back with our environments.
We do this outside because we recognize there are teachers everywhere and we lean into the support from the trees and the wind and the nettles and the grasses and the buttercups and the birds. We do this outside to touch the wilds inside of us by touching the wilds outside of us, together.
A foundational question guides our exploration: How do we simultaneously give and receive support through touch?
You do not need dance experience to participate. Perhaps you are deep into your lifelong journey of dancing and performing; perhaps you are new to movement practices.
Leland and Tahni draw from their combined learnings of Contact improvisation, Improvisational scores, The Alexander Techinique, Body Mind Centering, contemplative dance practice, Authentic movement, years of contemporary dance techniques and making dances.
Mobility/Ability Note: This workshop includes trail walking and moving on uneven ground.
Where: Tryon Life Community Farm, connected to Tryon Creek State Natural Area, in Southwest Portland.
Upon registration all details are given.
Scholarships are available. Please email Tahni at: hello@tahniholt.com if you areneeding a scholarship.
About the facilitators:
Leland Hull is a dance artist, treehouse carpenter, and one of the facilitators of the Queer Contact Improv Jam at FLOCK and N.E.W. Leland is passionate about fostering symbiotic relations between people and the environments they inhabit.
Tahni Holt is a dance artist and is currently in an on-going performance project, FOREST, with Shannon Stewart. FOREST’s choreographic work resides in the study of interconnected systems–ecology, histories, performative bodies (including non-human), and expansive understandings of communication. Currently Tahni teaches it’s a fucking miracle (because it is!) and EARTH/SKY.