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Join Mayfield Brooks for this dance workshop. This workshop will explore somatic techniques, improvised dance scores, imagination, and symbolic actions that activate healing states by opening the heart. We will focus on heart-opening techniques rooted in joy and pleasure as a way to release tension and embrace wildness and joy. We will practice arriving, heart mapping, catching spirit, riding waves, interspecies vocalizing, deep belly laughter, and play inspired by Mayfield and Camilo's work with whales and the ocean. This is a practice of embracing the feral, and wild parts of ourselves with an open heart while also exploring the subtlety of the pleasure within. Opening the heart through movement and sound is a release from all that holds us back. The invitation is to dance your heart out!
Mayfield Brooks improvises while black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks is the 2021 recipient of the biennial Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award nominee for their experimental dance film, Whale Fall, and a 2022 Danspace Project Platform artist. They were a 2022-23 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, the 2024 Alma Hawkins Visiting Chair at UCLA with the World Arts and Cultures/Dance program, 2025 Creative Time Research and Development Fellow. They live living by the sea.
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Sedona Dance Project Studio, 2160 Shelby Dr. #203 Sedona, AZ 86336., 2160 Shelby Dr, Sedona, AZ 86336-0008, United States
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