How do we retain the integrity, sense of privacy, authenticity and purity of the dance, and include an audience? What happens when we invite Another (or Others) to witness our dance?

This workshop differentiates itself from other Medicine Dance trainings in that we pay particular attention to the power of the witness. Always, most significantly, the ability we have to witness our selves. From there, to witness other(s).

Deepen your PRACTICE while profoundly affecting others. Allowing our Selves to be seen is an ancient and selfless form of SERVICE.

We work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, exploring the “space between’: where magic beyond our Selves occurs.

The workshop is created to provide a space that feels safe enough and inspiring enough to cultivate articulate, fluid, responsive bodies, that are more and more capable of spontaneous, truthful expression.

Along with the pure movement, or dance elements mentioned above, we take the time to “share.”  To bring words to the non-verbal experience.  The intention of talking is to integrate the parts of the brain that are activated in the non-verbal portions, with the part of the brain that we bring into the culture at large, that uses cognition, that values description and analysis and thought.

By practicing in this hybrid womb of support, participants are able to find support and refuge, access sustainable, positive, life-affirming energy, and from there – SHARE our Wealth, our Bounty, our Grace.

This monthly workshop (as well as the Performance Workshop) is best supported by weekly participation in the weekly Tarzana or Santa Monica classes, or by a consistent movement practice elsewhere. Movement Arts Laboratories are by invitation and require some previous movement practice in a non-witnessing context.