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A Shape-Shifting PollinateOffered by the Pollinate Team-ing
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🍑On the heels of Samhain, All Soul's, and the Day of the Dead, what beings and parts of ourselves are asking for the honour of our partnership in a dance. Who wishes to waltz, longs to tango, or simply desires a space to move through us? Perhaps we invite an ancestor, an archetypal figure, a creature, a phenomenon beyond the human realm... As we let go of our attachments to who we are, loosen the body and loosen our identity, we may find a new agility on the dance floor and in our lives.
🍑This Pollinate, musical mages Joel Brubacher, Michael Reginato, Colin Read and Fynn Fooks will bless us with their spell-casting soundscape-dancescape invocations bohdran, voice, guitar, percussion, synth, accordion, electrified banjo, charango, guitar and harp. Followed by a mystery deejay.
🍑The Purpose of Pollinate is to create a space in KW where lovers of dance & music improvisation can come together in embodied research of what generates co-intelligence, flow and collaboration.
🍑What is Pollinate? Pollinate is a monthly dance event for those who enjoy moving in a focused creative space in collaboration with other dancers and with improvised sound. This includes solo, duo, group dancing, conscious witnessing & stillness. Each event hosts veteran musical improvisers to support the space with inspiration for movement, expression, surprise and delight. This could include both acoustic & electronic sound.
And each month there will be a different themed focus and guided warm-up to stimulate new ideas & practice. As usual, there will be nibbles & spring water to energize our bodies, art supplies to entice our creative spirit, a cuddle zone to rest & co-regulate, and a tickle trunk of costume items to play with identity.
Bring your water bottle to hydrate your dance. Children are welcome with supervision.
All ages, abilities & backgrounds enrich our dance.
🌙The Arc of the Night:
7:00 Doors Open ~ let go of words & land in the body, with a personal warm-up to live soundscape
7:30 Opening Circle (note that doors will be closed during circle)
7:50 Guided Warm-up for the Collective Body
8:00 Dance to Live Music
9:00 Dance to DJ
10:20 Closing Circle
10:30 Pack up & mingle
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🌞Principles that support our vision of collaboration & improvisation in this space:
1) Learning: I see myself & everyone as learners, and everything that happens as an opportunity to learn.
2) Honour & Nurture Self-Trust: Everyone's experience & needs matter to the well-being of the whole. I will honour & nurture a space where I, and we, listen to and honour our needs.
3) Curiosity: When faced with the choice between curiosity & judgment or defensiveness, I choose curiosity.
4) Response-Ability: We are all interconnected and affect what happens.
5) Creative Tension: I can embrace both what is happening AND my vision of what I want (& don't want) as a creative tension.
6) Subjectivity: And when we do have occasion to speak, we speak from our own experience & perception of what is happening.
7) Practice & Play: These are core to how we learn.
😎 Focus on Non-verbal Conversation: Let go of the urge to speak, unless it's necessary, so that we can deepen our experience of our dance.
🌞Pollinate welcomes everyone who embraces these principles in & around the dance space.
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🍑When: Saturday, November 14th, 7:00PM - 10:30 PM
🍑Where: Church of the Good Shepherd, 116 Queen St N, Downtown Kitchener.
🍑Cost: Sliding Scale: $25-$35
Pay-what-makes-deep-sense:
We invite you to be present with ~ your own capacity to pay ~ the energies & resources that go into creating Pollinate, and ~ what you wish to sustain & grow in your community.
If you can't pay the lowest amount, talk to us to see if we can get creative with it.
Eventbrite: pollinatekw.eventbrite.com
Cash at the door, or E-transfer: [email protected]
❤We love feedback and we are interested in your experience of Pollinate! Access our feedback form HERE.
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Church of the Good Shepherd Kitchener, 116 Queen St N, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H7, Canada
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