MZD Special Guest Artist Workshop with Arash Khakpour

MZD Special Guest Artist Workshop with Arash Khakpour (The Biting School-Vancouver)
Sunday, October 20
10 AM - 4 PM
Early bird workshop | $30 until October 6
$40 after early bird

Indulging | The Dimensions of Imagination

In this class open to all levels and experiences, we will bring the value of agility and tactility to awaken our inner CATS. We will work on conscious duetting by using rolling point, sloughing, bridging, yielding, anchoring, pressure modulation, internal expansion and weigh-sharing to sharpen our physical awareness and dexterity.

We will explore how the physical skillsets can expand through indulging in the range of our senses, the energetic circumferences of our bones, noticing emotions and tapping into imagination. Can imagination guide us to inhabit our bodies of knowledge and generosity? This leads us into dreaming the body and the extensions of our bodies as a way of expanding and exceeding the physical body. Can the heart as an organ play a part in our dancing together?

This warm-up will invite us to dive into perceptual possibilities of what it feels like to awaken and develop our imagination as a way of bridging the unconscious to the conscious. Can imagination guide us to dream our ancient bodies of otherworldly wisdom? We will work on enhancing personal suppleness and virtuosity through short improvisational duets, tuning into the perception within the group, and utilizing the group's intelligence.

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