Intensive with Jungwoong Kim (USA-Korea)
In this intensive we will work with ideas about stone and water to deepen our ability to listen and to allow ourselves to be changed in relation to direct experience, while centering our own ever evolving nature. This class is for people who care about embodied insight as a foundation for creation. We build on the belief that movement and observation practices are a form of thinking that we can apply to any aspect of our lives: to dancing, to creating, to being in the world.
Water, without abandoning its own powerful nature, takes on the qualities of everything it touches. It absorbs, reflects, and conforms to what is there.
Stone, with its limitations of shape, can be a touchstone for precision and nuance as it requires care to fit harmoniously with other stones.
Working with these metaphors we ask:
How do we support each other?
How do we know what we need to be supported?
What power and possibility is unearthed when we are able to both give and receive support?
Drawing on Korean shamanistic and martial art practices, awareness and mindfulness forms, contact improvisation, and on theater and game practices, we will observe, play, make and dance.
We will take our attunement and discoveries out into nature. We will share and witness our gifts of sound and movement, and harmonize with the natural environment.
We will learn and practice activities like “Becoming Stone Practice” as daily rituals to work on both individually and in groups, and we will reflect in a variety of ways on what we are experiencing. Insights from reflection will be applied to new iterations of rituals, activities and play.