Bodyscapes: Movement & Making Lab
Charlotte Stickles
Select Sundays from 3-5pm starting at the Dance Barn
Single Lab: $30 or Series Pass: $120
Bodyscapes is a space for reconnecting to the ecologies of our bodies as they regulate, relate, and respond to their respective environments and communities.
This is a guided improvisation and meditation practice in the open air barn that allows us to integrate body with land. In this spacious two hour offering, we will move through different states of awareness to sensitize our bodies and expand our capacity to listen and be present – and maybe even stretch out time. Class will consist of open-ended movement exploration, sensory walks along the trail network near the barn, and creative offerings to explore memory, mapping, and integration.
Come to slow down and witness your being in relationship to this seasonal transition, as we begin to shift our energy in accordance with fall. Expect a soft and exploratory container for both discovery and rest.
No movement experience necessary, this practice is for all.
Art materials will be provided – but feel free to bring your own.
TEACHER BIO:
Charlotte Stickles is a movement artist with an inquiry around how dance lives beyond its more traditional western performance and pedagogical settings. She has worked in various capacities as a performer, educator, and movement specialist – as a creature performer, film actor, movement director, choreographer, and collaborator for numerous contemporary performance works. Charlotte has presented her own work in galleries, public spaces, and on screens – and has spoken about her research in the field of dance and performance at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference, public radio, and at various sites and museums across the country. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance and is currently pursuing her Masters in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt Institute. In researching the ephemeral and communicating the lived experience of a body, specifically through a lens of ecosomatics, ecology, and horticulture, Charlotte transfigures the boundaries of dance as a means to reimagine sustainable and integrated living in a shifting world. www.charlottestickles.com
