Roots and Wings Institute for Embodied Wisdoms: Brooklyn-bred and Twin Cities-based dancer-choreographer, educator and artist organizer Alanna Morris opens the Roots and Wings Institute for Embodied Wisdoms with dance classes for children and movement practice for adults.
Adult Movement Practice
Dreamscapes: co-creating the word we wish to abide
Saturdays, 12:00-2:30pm
September 28-November 2
6-week fall movement residency for somatic, embodied practitioners that balances somatic practice and collective dance/movement ritual.
Hour 1: Training for Dreamscapes is a movement practice that builds upon postural restoration, classical American modern dance techniques, traditional archives of the Malinké/Manding cultures, Haitian dance, Afro-Cuban dance, and contemporary movement. Much attention will be given to breath work and restorative practice, and can be taken as a drop-in class.
Hour 2: The Archive: Alanna will guide participants through aspects of Black Light Research: a methodology for ritualized living and performance practice – a movement practice which integrates body, mind and heart in a sophisticated ways, informed by somatic therapies, analytical psychology, Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Black feminist politic, Black political thought, and other frameworks of social and environmental justice. The cohort will work as co-researchers as Alanna guides the building of a ritual dance together. The last day will culminate in a celebration from 2:00-3:00pm!
Registration for The Archive closes on October 5.
This is revolutionary movement-as-practice.