Collective Imagining Process
A somatic movement workshop blending Authentic Movement, guided meditation and collective devising for dance practitioners.
Somatic Movement Workshop
What happens when we slow down and start noticing… when we release expectations and preconceptions, and arrive in the here and now?
How does it feel to connect with our own bodies, while gently softening awareness and surrendering to an unfolding experience… What changes when we do not judge, but simply recognise, follow, and witness what is emerging within the body-mind process?
What would we find if we open to the very periphery of awareness... What sensations, feelings, thoughts, memories, and images occur there… And what would happen if we gently invite these into the light, allow ourselves to be moved by them, and start to explore their qualities through movement, imagination, creativity, and devising…
This workshop, as the pilot session of a workshop series, offers an opportunity to engage with an evolving framework, a model for embodied, creative, and collaborative practice: the Collective Imagining Process. Drawing on Authentic Movement principles, reflective processes, and models for creative articulation, the workshop is an invitation to delve into an embodied exploration of individual and collective experiences, approaching these as sources of creativity.
By facilitating exploration and artistic expression through movement, this practice is particularly relevant to dance, choreography, physical theatre, and somatic movement practices. What to expect This first session will begin with an introduction to the Collective Imagining Process and the phases and activities it proposes.
After a guided meditation, participants will be invited to begin exploring their personal interaction with external stimuli (such as images, sounds, textures, and scents). Guided by written prompts, each participant will continue to follow their personal journey, continuously oscillating between phases of focusing inwards, moving from within, engaging with imaginative activities, actively exploring movement through improvisation, reflecting, and artistically manifesting.
The session will culminate in a collective devising endeavour: an invitation for everyone to offer, receive, witness, imagine, and create with others.
This practice values and encourages honesty, self-agency, idiosyncrasy, freedom, and playfulness. It further aligns with the principles of respectful and horizontal engagement. Who is this workshop for? Grounded in embodiment and creativity, this workshop is particularly suitable for movement practitioners (both professionals and those in training) specialising in dance, choreography, physical theatre, and somatic movement practices.
It is also suitable for anyone who is interested in somatic approaches and feels comfortable moving in the presence of others.
Please note that this session involves some reading and writing in English. Collective Imagining Process This workshop is part of a workshop series devoted to the Collective Imagining Process.
As my ongoing exploratory project, the Collective Imagining…