Cocrea: Mindful Partner Dance Immersion

Cocréa founder Wren LaFeet will guide you through his proven methodology for reliably creating awesome partner dances with anyone to any music.

Weaving the threads of mindfulness, somatics and cultural depth and technique from lineages of social partner dance such as Blues, Swing, Salsa and Tango, as well as solo movement concepts from contemporary dance and African diasporic traditions, Wren masterfully crafts containers imbued with trust and permission empowering dancers to enter into flow state within a safer, brave space. The practice focuses on inviting, allowing, attuning and relaxing into ever deepening levels of listening and coherent, consensual play that strengthens community feeling.

Fortified by intimacy practices gained over decades of relational study and practice, interpersonal techniques from theater and embodied recovery work, and luscious soundtracks curated to support the blossoming of awareness, Cocréa has been called "the next evolution of conscious dance" by numerous participants over its 15 years of existence.

Wren simply views it as an embodiment practice for dealing with life’s changes, as an expression of the Tao.

In this practice, Cocreaístas welcome the possibility to enhance and elevate the realm of somatically informed, embodied movement into a deeply connected, honest and powerful tool for transformation and cultivation of a humanity in pristine coherence with our planet and all life.

Why All Levels?

A statement from Wren:

Welcome to Cocréa! Dancing for over 25 years, I can confidently say I learn something new about myself, my dance, or embodied movement in general every time I dance with someone regardless of how skilled they are. To me, this is the point of this practice. To raise awareness, to be with the difference, and to grow through it. Fun is available. Sexiness and intimacy are on the menu. Presence is the what we are doing to find the most authentic expression of the moment. And, I believe the more I can open to difference, and detach from outcome, the more I recognize how similar we all are in what we want, and what we need. The closer I journey towards that, the more easily I can embody real intimacy, peace and freedom.

We will explore:

- Rhythm

- ⁠Physics of Connection

- ⁠Interception and Feeling the Truth of the Moment

- ⁠Rotation and Spiral Forms

- ⁠Embodying Sound (or Spinaesthesia or Jedi Musicality)

- ⁠The Practice of Trust + Commitment + Surrender = Magic

No partner necessary. All levels welcome.

Couples welcome to dance together exclusively.

All relationship styles and constellations welcome.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Eliza Maroney