Community Movement Workshops
Partners
Physical Processing
December 2023
Hosted by DancEast in Nashville, Tennessee
Crafted for adult movers of all abilities, this movement experience provides participants with methods to connect to their bodies and physically process life experiences and emotions.
Made possible by the generosity of Mr. John Ham
Embodied Improvisation
SEPTEMBER 2023
HOSTED AT THE ISTANBUL FRINGE FESTIVAL, WHICH BRINGS TOGETHER DIVERSITY AND NOVELTY WITH THE DYNAMIC AND MULTI-CULTURAL PERFORMING ARTS SCENE OF ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
This class explores a range of movement modalities through an imaginative improvisation practice. We will connect to our bodies in a nuanced and meditative way, exploring behavior in the body, density within negative space, and a spectrum of textural qualities. We'll engage in improvisation games, taking the information from our individual solo practice into group composition and play.
Enacting Expansion
Movement for the Workplace
April 2023
partnership with the
Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville
Hosted by DancEast in Nashville, Tennessee
An empowering movement session designed to boost confidence, drive self-advocacy, and catalyze career momentum.
Physical Processing
December 2022
Hosted by DancEast in Nashville, Tennessee
Crafted for adult movers of all abilities, this movement experience provides participants with methods to connect to their bodies and physically process life experiences and emotions.
Embodied Improvisation
September 2022
Hosted at the Istanbul Fringe Festival, which brings together diversity and novelty with the dynamic and multi-cultural performing arts scene of Istanbul, Turkey.
This class explores a range of movement modalities through an imaginative improvisation practice. We will connect to our bodies in a nuanced and meditative way, exploring behavior in the body, density within negative space, and a spectrum of textural qualities. We'll engage in improvisation games, taking the information from our individual solo practice into group composition and play.
Body View
Cultivating Physical Awareness, Empowerment, & Empathy
Body View Community Workshops consist of a movement class, performance, discussion, and written reflection. Each session aims to empower participants to explore their relationships with their bodies, move towards body integration and acceptance, and experience art and physicality as outlets for creative self-expression, processing, presence, and connection.
Body View Workshop at Middle Tennessee State University
Body View 2021
Creative Collaborators Joi Ware & Lenin Fernandez
Developmental Collaboration with OZ Arts Nashville
Studio Residency at DancEast
Community partners:
Middle Tennessee State University, Noyes Somatics Class
Metro Nashville Public Schools teachers, stratford STEM Magnet School
Vanderbilt University Curb Scholars
Vanderbilt University “Play in the System” Graduate Student group
Body View Workshop at Nashville Dance Cooperative
Body View September 2019 - May 2020
Funded in part by Metro Nashville Arts Commission’s THRIVE funding program
Studio Residency at Harpeth Hall
The initial Body View workshops reached over 220 Middle Tennessee community members with community partners:
Southern Festival of Books, public performance
Nashville Dance Cooperative
Nashville School of the Arts, dance department
nashville School of the ARts, ap capstone english class
McGavock High School, psychology classes
The Next Door women’s recovery center, Intensive Outpatient Program
Featured Performance Solos
