FIELD STUDIES: Weekly Embodiment Labs •• WEDNESDAYS •• with Valerie Sabbah & Emma Anders (JUNE 3)

Name: FIELD STUDIES: Weekly Embodiment Labs •• WEDNESDAYS •• with Valerie Sabbah & Emma Anders (JUNE 3)
Start: 2026-06-03T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-03T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Proto studio

Schedule

Wed Jun 03 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Proto studio | Montreal, QC

•• WELCOME TO FIELD STUDIES ••
A weekly embodiment lab & deep listening practice
🗓 SPRING 2026: 7-week series
Wednesdays 7PM - 9PM
APRIL 22 – JUNE 3
Trial Class: April 15
📍 Moment Collectives Space @Proto Studio
5333 Casgrain: Studio 1107 : Laurier Metro
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A research container proposed by:
~ Valerie Sabbah ~
Founder of Moment Collectives: Montreal Contact Improvisation School
&
~ Emma Anders ~
Founder of Jamhouse: Record Label • Studio • Festival • Artist Collective
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This series is an embodied research space centered on deep listening, improvisation, and collective composition.
It invites participants to expand their perceptual field—listening not only through the body, but through sound, space, and relational presence.
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WHAT THIS PRACTICE IS
Field Studies are weekly guided embodiment labs where you will explore how to tune your body as an instrument of resonance. A practice in deep listening, each session refines your receptivity and your attention to live sound, breath, impulse, and spatial awareness.
When we enter “The Field”, we work with the following pillars:
deep listening, curiosity, improvisation, imagery, play, tuning, witnessing, and ritual (*please read in more detail below).
Dance improvisation artist, Valerie Sabbah, will guide explorations of movement and stillness, where you will experiment both responding to and shaping the musical landscape that is being improvised in real-time by multi-instrumentalist and live improv
artist Emma Anders.
Movement becomes both response and offering as you enter into a shared space of sonic-somatic research. What emerges is a
collective composition - a living score of mutual resonance.

WHO IS THIS FOR
This container is for anyone searching to learn to land into and inhabit more fully the body and in becoming aligned and
congruent as an expressive being. This container invites pathways to the innate artist within and a return to inner sovereignty as
a lived, embodied experience. We are cultivating receptive capacity and trust in the body’s wisdom, to surrender to our own
timing, truth, and expression as they emerge and are witnessed.

The aim is to learn how to work from where we are, as we are. To come to meet the information inside ourselves and connect to
our inner impulse and music. To gain access to our entire aliveness, and to fully engage. To become fully resonant, and expressourselves freely and fully.
This is your opportunity to learn improvisational and compositional movement techniques. This research container invites intention, presence, care, and curiosity—honoring both the singular journey and the shared field.

🕕 SCHEDULE:
6:50 PM — Arrival & settling in
7:00 PM — Opening Circle, followed by our practice
8:45 PM — Closing Circle
9:00 PM — Departure

🎟 INVESTMENT & REGISTRATION:
https://momentcollectives.com/field-studies

--- Pillars of “The Field” ---
DEEP LISTENING
Deep listening is the practice of being fully present and receptive to sound, silence, the environment, and one’s inner
experience. It involves listening with the whole self. It is an active, intentional process that cultivates heightened awareness,
empathy, and connection — both to others and to the self.

CURIOSITY
We approach each moment with curiosity, allowing questions, sensations, and impulses to guide our exploration.

IMPROVISATION
Improvisation is our core mode of research — structured through scores or open exploration, it reveals what wants to emerge in
the moment.

IMAGERY
We engage the imagination as a tool for embodiment, allowing inner images and visualizations to inform movement and
expression.

PLAY
Playfulness keeps us open and fluid, inviting experimentation, joy, and discovery without attachment to outcome.

TUNING
We tune — to ourselves, to each other, to the space — cultivating attunement and resonance as a foundation for presence.

WITNESSING
We practice witnessing with care, offering and receiving attention that is non-judgmental, spacious, and supportive.

RITUAL
Ritual (Journaling, Circle, Sharing, Opening and Closing): Ritual grounds the container, marking beginnings and endings, and
weaving integration through shared reflection and intention.

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WHAT YOU DEVELOP
Through this practice, you cultivate:
- deep listening and perceptual awareness
- responsiveness to sound and environment
- improvisational and compositional skill
- sensitivity to group and spatial dynamic
- confidence in expressive movement
ACCESSIBILITY & INTENSITY
Intensity: Low to moderate (with moments of dynamic expression)
This practice includes:
- movement and stillness
- listening-based improvisation
- live music interaction
- solo and group exploration
- reflective and ritual elements

Participants are encouraged to move at their own pace and engage according to their capacity.

👥 YOUR FACILITATORS
~ VALERIE SABBAH ~
https://www.instagram.com/valeriesabbah/
https://momentcollectives.com/
https://www.instagram.com/moment.collectives/
https://www.facebook.com/moment.collectives/
~ EMMA ANDERS ~
https://linktr.ee/emmaanders
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUJbPM0EReZuJSnFAIjtCqA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4F209QWWD2raoe9VlDWF6K?si=4hrmDh_GR3GOUVKVvJUi0g