Name: Waterfall - Boston - movement workshop and outdoor performance
Start: 2024-09-29T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-29T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Institute of Contemporary Art

Waterfall - Boston - movement workshop and outdoor performance

Join us for workshops and an outdoor performance of "Waterfall," a project happening in cities around the world.
About this Event

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Waterfall Workshop
September 29 2pm-5pm
Institute for Contemporary Art
FREE
Followed by:
Waterfall performance (by workshop participants)
September 29 6pm
Staircase from World Trade Center Avenue to Seaport Boulevard, Seaport
(across from the World Trade Center)

Waterfall - a movement workshop and outdoor participatory performance

Waterfall is a global ritual, taking place on iconic and overlooked staircases around the world. Twenty or more dancers cascade slowly together down a staircase. Waterfall is created in an intensive workshop in which dancers and other movers learn to move together as a body of water through a series of practices developed by Wendy Jehlen, Artistic Director of ANIKAYA Dance Theater that draw on elements of Butoh, Parkour, Contact Improvisation and Deep Listening.

This will be the third iteration of Waterfall in Boston. This Waterfall is supported by a Wake Up the Night grant from the City of Boston.

Waterfall is an intersection between two of ANIKAYA's public dance series - Sacred Spaces and Mass Movement.

Sacred Spaces is a series of public space interventions that unveil the sacred in the urban landscape.

Mass Movement is a series of actions that call attention to urgent issues that require us to move together as a species to address. Mass Movement actions, like change, are impossible without many people moving together in solidarity. The practices that are taught in Mass Movement projects teach us to work together with care and to connect across what we imagine to be barriers.

The Waterfall has taken place in NYC; Boston; Washington, DC; Bamako, Mali; Kolkata, India; Tokyo, Japan and Tijuana, Mexico.

During the workshop we will learn ways of moving together, first on the floor and then on stairs. Wendy will guide participants through a series of exercises to prepare the body, the mind, and the group to create this performance together. The process will teach us to move not as individuals but as one body of water.