Sat, Mar 09
|Steps on Broadway
Searching for a True Move Workshop: Surprise v Sadness
This workshop will focus on using the imagination to embody feelings around surprise and sadness. What emotions, physiological responses, thoughts do we have in each state? We'll embody our responses to understand these two powerful phenomena more.
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Steps on Broadway, 2121 Broadway, New York, NY 10023, USA
About The Event
This SFTM workshop will focus on using the imagination to embody feelings around surprise and sadness. What emotions, physiological responses, thoughts do we have in each of these states? We'll embody our responses to understand these two powerful phenomena more.
Class Blueprint/Guideline:
1. Warm Up/Sensory Cypher: Movers enjoy sensory experiences (music, lighting, snacks, etc.) and participate in dance cyphers based on the sensory experience (audio cypher, visual cypher, taste cypher, etc.).
2. Intro and Breakdown:
- Instructor, SFTM, and community intro games
- what is sadness and how does it feel in our body?
3. Outside-In Freestyle Flows:
- Prompts provided to improvise: Characters, Color, Sounds, Images, etc.
4. Inside-Out Freestyle Flows:
- what is surprise and how does it feel in our body?
- Breathing Methods, Fantasizing, Spark to Flame method
5. Dialogue
- communal verbal reflection and wonderings
6. Cypher and Conclude
- communal non verbal reflection and wonderings