In these sessions, we will honour dancing as a wild and sacred relational devotional practice of moving energy. The work will guide participants towards accessing their most liberated dancing beyond form.
SERAFINE1369 will offer simple invitations to dance, allowing space for the complexities of experience and relation to emerge as material. Rather than steering or directing us towards an elsewhere, or somewhere specific and inviting a curiosity about what is already t/here.
We will work with/through/between the energetics of the room, the day, the season, the group and each persons’ archive of experience. Practices will involve attuning our capacities for sensing and being open to the information that can surface or arrive moment to moment; cultivating states of readiness.
Dropping in to the realm(s) of embodied presence and reclaiming imagination as a flexible and elaborative technology and not a seat of anxiety, anticipation and fear. You practice navigating the unknown whilst anchoring in the pleasure, familiarity and connection that can be accessed through your own dancing bodies. Working to visibilise the often invisible systems that choreograph us, and to grow awareness around our own tendencies and desires so that instinct is something that we can work with, rather than be controlled by.
Tuning to the space each time, SERAFINE1369 will lead sessions intuitively. You will work with dancing with eyes closed, moments of contact and becoming more adept at shifting roles. You will take time to discuss and reflect together.
These sessions are open to all, regardless of experience, for whom the themes resonate.
Two free bursary places are available per session for QTIBPOC (Queer, Transgender and Intersex Black and People of Colour). These places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please email us via info@independentdance.co.uk to register your interest.
If you would like to make a contribute towards making these bursaries possible, please make a donation here. All donations are greatly appreciated.
Find out more about future Tuning Practice sessions here.
SERAFINE1369 (they/them) is a London born artist, dancer, acupuncturist and body-focused researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. They work with/in the context of the hostile architectures of the metropolis towards moments and states of transcendence.
Their methodology is intuitive and many-headed and underpinned by their interest in the invisible systems and structures that choreograph bodies in life. The political implications of this work encourage an un-settling, anti-assimilationist practice concerned with the integrity and efficacy of structures (bodily and social), collaboration, hosting and an interest in somatics, semiotics and symbiotics from a body-led, experiential position.
Independent Dance is resident at Siobhan Davies Studios. To find out more about accessibility and the amenities available within the building please see here.
If you have any questions about the accessibility of our programme and would like to discuss any specific access requirements, please feel free to reach out to us via email info@independentdance.co.uk or by phone on 0207 091 9650, to speak to a member of the Independent Dance team.
During the session, all participants are welcome to take breaks, observe, exit and enter the space as they wish. Lounge areas are available on the first and ground floors of the building. Yoga mats, blocks, cushions and ear defenders are available for use. We also welcome you being in contact if you would like to discuss the option of bringing your access support worker. Please speak to a member of the ID team if you require any assistance.
Two free bursary places are available per session for QTIBPOC (Queer, Transgender and Intersex Black and People of Colour). These places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please email us via info@independentdance.co.uk to register your interest.
If you would like to make a contribute towards making these bursaries possible, please make a donation here. All donations are greatly appreciated.
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