Attention as Navigation: An Improvisational Dance Workshop with Alexander Davis

Name: Attention as Navigation: An Improvisational Dance Workshop with Alexander Davis
Start: 2025-12-14T15:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-14T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 721 Broad St, Durham, NC 27705-4885, United States

Schedule

Sun Dec 14 2025 at 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

721 Broad St, Durham, NC 27705-4885, United States | Durham, NC

This workshop invites dancers of all levels to discover how focused awareness can unlock spontaneous, authentic, and unexpected expression through the body. Drawing from diverse movement practices including Viewpoints, Contact Improvisation, and improvisational comedy, participants will engage in a series of guided exercises designed to sharpen perceptual awareness and develop trust for one’s own instinctive responses. Dancers will practice noticing what captures focus, what creates curiosity, and what demands presence in each moment. The workshop emphasizes the triangulation and queer interplay between internal sensation, external awareness, and the imagination, teaching dancers to navigate the space between emergence and action that defines improvisation.