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Wren LaFeet returns to Port Townsend! After his sold-out workshop series with us in May, he’s back to offer three new intermediate-level fusion workshops followed by a sweet evening Roots Fusion dance open to the public. LIMITED TO 40 PARTICIPANTS
Preregister: https://www.universe.com/events/roots-fusion-wren-lafeet-workshop-series-tickets-FXJ0PY
See more payment details below.
This workshop series is geared towards those who either attended the workshops in May, or those who have enough prior dance experience in any format (fusion, tango, swing, ballroom, modern, etc.) to be comfortable in an intermediate-level fusion class. Those who consider themselves still to be beginners, but who have a strong sense of dance frame and lead/follow, are also welcome. Not sure if the workshops are a good fit for you? Drop us a line at [email protected] and we will help.
The three workshops are:
1:30PM Slowing Down: Deep Rhythmic Embodiment
When musicians learn a complex piece of music, they begin playing at a much slower speed than the piece will ultimately be played at. Slowing down, turning our curiosity and attention to the intricacies of rhythm, syncopation and meter, and playing with how to translate rhythm into our whole bodies so it becomes second nature, is the intention here.
2:40PM Fine Attunement: Partner as an Extension of Your Body
Building on the detailed rhythmic work from the first session, we’ll bring that same level of refinement to our connection technique. Bringing a high degree of awareness to the movements of the body and how they impact our partner, we’ll explore and refine tone and tone ramping, the continuum of connection that happens before we physically touch, and the vast degree of subtle variability that can occur thereafter.
3:50PM Oh, You Fancy? Turns, Stalls, and Flourishes
Moving from this higher awareness of specificity, musicality and discernment in our movements, we can introduce specific and more complex movements that bring that “wow” factor to our dances. This will essentially be a musicality class that tunes us into a deeper listening and fortifies our move vocabulary.
5:00 – 7:30 Dinner break (on your own)
7:30PM-10:00PM Fusion and Microfusion Dance with multiple DJs (open to the public)
This day of classes is meant to provide a safer space to experiment with bringing your fusion dancing to the next level. With 24 years of experience in partner dancing, and a lifetime background in theater, Wren calls his teaching style, “facilitainment”. “Facil” in Spanish means easy. So combined with the word attainment, he loves to make attaining advancement and understanding both easy and fun.
DATE
Saturday, October 12th
LOCATION
Quimper Grange
1219 Corona Street
Port Townsend WA
EXCHANGE
Limited to 40 participants. The May event sold out approximately three weeks before the dance.
Preregister: https://www.universe.com/events/roots-fusion-wren-lafeet-workshop-series-tickets-FXJ0PY
$60-100 sliding scale (pre-register, includes dance)
$80-120 sliding scale (at the door until cap, includes dance)
Financial challenges? Use code GRATITUDE in the "access key" box when ticketing, to access a discounted ticket. Please use this if paying the pre-registration price would constitute a financial hardship for you.
EVENING DANCE A LA CARTE (open to all)
$7-15 sliding scale
SAFE SPACE
The workshops and the Roots Fusion dance are designed to encourage lead/follow/switch. Roles are non gender-specific. Please help keep this event space drug and alcohol-free both inside and on the grounds. If you observe something that seems unsafe, come and tell us.
FOOTWEAR
Please avoid street shoes. Dance or other non-scuffing shoes are appropriate.
PARKING
The Grange is in a residential area. Parking is limited. Please consider carpooling. Please DO NOT BLOCK driveways. Avoid loud noise outside after 10PM to respect our neighbors.
WHAT TO BRING
Some suggestions include water, snacks, gum or mints, and layers to wear. Please avoid strong perfumes or colognes.
PLEASE ASK THE INSTRUCTOR PRIOR TO RECORDING ANY VIDEO AT THIS EVENT.
QUESTIONS
Email us at: [email protected]
WREN LAFEET
Wren is an embodiment guide intent on learning how to be in right-relationship as a 21st century human so he can best serve life. A trained dancer and theater worker, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, watersheds, neuroscience and psychology that support interpersonal connection and positive change. In 2013, Wren co-founded Cocréa with Antje Schäfer as a vehicle for exploring mindful, consent based relational practice through movement and dance.
Channeling this intelligence, he creates brave spaces for humans struggling with disconnection and longing for a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves through the body. Wren’s own many years of seeking have led him through theater and filmmaking, circus, nomadism, psychedelic-informed music culture, yoga, consent culture, decolonization work, permaculture and most presently, addiction recovery counseling and breathwork practice. Along his path, nature, community, relationship, humor, movement and a sense of belonging to something far larger and more unknowable than this seemingly separate self are the consistent threads with which Wren braids meaning and purpose into life.
He is a TEDx speaker, featured author in "ReInhabiting the Village", certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. Wren is currently in transition from living on the unceded lands of the Awaswas and Amun Mutsen peoples (Santa Cruz, CA) to the traditional unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, BC).
He has been dancing since 1998 and began performing on stage when he was 6 years old. He recently completed working with Embodied Recovery as a substance use disorder counselor in Los Gatos, CA.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Quimper Grange, Port Townsend, Wa, United States