January 6th + 20th
TUESDAYS // 6:30pm-7:45pm
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 $3500 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
January 16th
Tuesday 16th // 6:30-8pm
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.
March 7th + April 11th + May 9th + June 13th
Saturdays 10am-1pm at FLOCK
THIS IS A SERIES WITH THE INTENTION OF COMING TO ALL FOUR SESSIONS
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BOOK + buy the book: HERE
Maximum 15 participants
$50 / $100 / $150 (Does not include book)
$50 for those who are experiencing financial ongoing hardship
$100 for those who have steady income
$150 for those who have steady income ++
There will be tea and snacks and moving/dancing and conversation and community.
What are we doing here? Like any book club we gather to discuss the contents in this book. We extend this discussion into our bodies with movement practices to support the integration of the information we might rub up against, struggle with, adapt to, break away from that needs to be metabilized to take shape in our whole selves. We do this with care for each other and for deep respect for wherever this work finds our edges in our individuated bodies and our collective body within plural realities. Over the four months we digest the material slowly.
Who is this for? You have come to EARTH/SKY or Its a Fucking Miracle before. Vanessa Marhado De Oliveria when writing about who this book is for on a global level says "If you have the time, energy, and literacy necessary to read this book, you fit...This means that, despite our transgressions and rebellions and our ideals of revolution, our struggles do not structurally jeopardize our survival: we have a choice to show up or not, to become visible or not, to be arrested or not, to take risks or not. Since we already have access to a level of social welfare secured for us, these choices tend not to fundamentally threaten our safety."
Machado De Oliveria offers us thought experiments that ask us to: (back of book info)
+ Reimagine how we respond to crisis and relearn how to interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
+ Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for pain and grief
+ Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
+ Create space for change that isn't drivin by desperate hope or a fear of desolate hopelessness
For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Charles Eisenstein, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions, cuts through our collective cognitive dissonance, and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all.
Inside our Dance/Book Club we will accompany these thought experiments with movement practices to help embody these thoughts in support of our whole being, each other, the communities we are a part of and the world around us.