Sat, Mar 23
|Brooklyn
Searching for a True Move Workshop: How Sadness is a Superpower
This workshop will focus on using the imagination to embody feelings around sadness. What emotions, physiological responses, thoughts do we have in this powerful state? Are there ways we can use the expression of sadness to liberate ourselves and our communities?
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
Brooklyn, Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY, USA
About The Event
This workshop will focus on using the imagination to embody feelings around sadness. What physiological responses and thoughts do we have in this powerful state? Are there ways we can use the expression of sadness to liberate ourselves and our communities?Â
Class Blueprint/Guideline:
1. Warm Up/Sensory Cypher: Movers enjoy sensory experiences (music, lighting, snacks, etc.) and participate in dance cyphers based on the sensory experience (audio cypher, visual cypher, taste cypher, etc.).Â
2. Intro and Breakdown:Â
- Instructor, SFTM, and community intro games
- what is sadness and how does it feel in our body?
3. Freestyle Flows:
- Meditation and Breathing
- Prompts provided to improvise: Body Scan, Character and Image Imitation, Color and Sound Interpretation
- Kinetic Imagining
4. Dialogue
- communal verbal reflection and wonderings: how can we use our familiarity with sadness to liberate ourselves?
6. Cypher and Conclude
- communal non verbal reflection and wonderingsÂ