Workshops: open house dance & femme tactics for surviving fascism

femme tactics for surviving facism is a body based workshop & conversation series convened at JACK, in partnership with movement artist Alicia Raquel.

The workshops will take place in two parts - While themes from each class will connect the classes are meant to stand alone. You may attend either or both.

PART ONE - open house dance (a freedom practice)

6:00pm- 7:00pm:

open house dance (a freedom practice) is an all level house dance class beginning at the (afroindigenous, queer-as-in-free) root--vibration, rhythm, breath, connection to the ground, emotion, ancestor veneration, and collective play. All levels and physical abilities are welcome--there will be challenge and space to play for "beginner" and "advanced" dancers alike. While open house dance (a freedom practice), is meant to stand alone, themes from each class will connect to themes in the femme tactics for surviving fascism, held later in the evening.

PART TWO - femme tactics for surviving facism

7:30pm - 9pm

femme tactics for surviving facism is a series of embodied workshops & conversation for sustaining political movment building. In it, we will practice-- in word and in body--three main principles: turning toward, aiming through, and engaging femme tactics in relation to the current global rise in fascist ideology. We will invite you to breathe, move together, process information while using somatic tools for settling the body, dream boldly, and crowdsource tactics--toward long term vision and short term survival--from our many lineages.

While femme tactics workshops are designed to stand alone, themes for each workshop will connect to dance concepts explored in open house dance (a freedom practice).

Host or Publisher JACK