It’s a Fucking Miracle with Tahni Holt + Luke Wyland
May 7th + 14th + 21st // $15 a class* at FLOCK DANCE CENTER
6:30pm-7:45pm
10% of proceeds from class go to: NAYA Native American Youth and Family Center. Together we have donated over $1500 and counting.
You must pre-register. Let's figure out how to do this together.
This class comes out of many years of movement study, curiosity, and play. Somatic leanings, movement improvisational scores, contact improv, authentic movement, contemplative dance, dance boot camp, and a fierce dance-your-ass-off-in-the-club shows up. Original music compositions, pop-culture songs, and abstract sound weaves through each class. it is a mash-up encouraging entanglement. It moves you and the class is moved by you.
For this hour and 15 minutes, your body is the guide as prompts are given, your body translates all that is into this moment of a miracle, of you being here right now. We dance our weird, sweaty, we can’t stop fucking shaking our bodies, we are alive, we are exhausted, we are feeling into our individual and collective grief, we are ecstatically moving our bodies in the SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME dance. Say it again: in the SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME! This is us being nimble and flexible and pushing up through the cracks because we lean into resource and our nervous systems need this in ways that are not possible to say or feel in words, and that is exactly why we move our bodies and dance. Help. Spread. The. Word.
It’s a fucking miracle we are here right now under and held by this sky. It’s a fucking miracle we breathe, we move, we sweat, we love, we anger, we feel anything at all, it’s a fucking miracle. It’s a fucking miracle we dance, we prance, we shake, we jazz finger it up sometimes. This is a dance party, an exercise class, a somatic lesson, a play date, it’s a fucking miracle. We are collective action and we are individual desire.
After much consideration masks are optional. Please do not come to class if you are not feeling well for whatever reason.
Photo credit: Ada Matusiewicz
Saturday // $15-$30 at FLOCK DANCE CENTER
10:00 am-11:45 am // May 18th
you must pre-register
Earth/Sky focuses on sensitivity practices through somatic inquiry, improvisational movement scores, and Contemporary Alexander technique principles. A companion workshop to Holt and Wyland’s It’s a Fucking Miracle class, Earth/Sky goes deep into inquiries of grounding and gravitational support in one’s being. In Earth/Sky we swim into practices of embodiment where we sensitize into places we may be holding ourselves up, back, and/or in, and ask can we find movement through the cracks, can we rest into presence? Can we listen in on the dark recesses of our unconscious patterns? Can we integrate these practices in our everyday lives? Expect waves of rigorous movement exploration alongside slowed-down sensorial capacity-building practices. Prompts offer a starting point for exploration to facilitate new ways of moving and being. All are welcome, no prior movement experience needed.
photo credit: Ada Matusiewicz
After much consideration masks are optional. Please do not come to class if you are not feeling well for whatever reason.