I’ll be teaching Morning Class as part of the Independent Dance programme at Siobhan Davies Sudios tomorrow. After years of participating in ID classes, which introduced me to many diverse forms of movement improvisation, it feels special to have the chance to offer my Symptom Scores research in this setting. More info is here.
This coming Thursday 13th March, dancer and writer Carolyn Roy and I are co-hosting Touching Words at Chisenhale Dance Space in London. Combining our shared interests in collective practices and divergent forms of knowing, we’re offering a space with prompts to touch, move, recompose, and encounter words together. We’ll explore our tactile relationship to language, experimenting with what writing is and can be, and finish with creating a collaborative zine. More info and sign-up is here.
I’m offering a workshop again as part of Antiuniversity Festival 2024. One of my curiosities with the Symptom Scores project is how it invites different ways of ‘reading through the body’, opening up forms of sense-making and knowledge-sharing, with symptoms as our teachers. What happens when we take our body’s experiences seriously as sources of knowing? What supports and stops us from doing this more? The workshop will be hosted at SET Social in Peckham, Wednesday 16th October at 14:00 – 18:00. For more information and to sign-up, click here.
I’m passing through Zürich in September and was invited by Maja Renn to offer Symptom Scores while there. The workshop takes place on Wednesday 18th September at Rote Fabrik, 13:30 – 17:00. Participation is free (donations are welcome) and spaces are limited. To reserve a place, email: info@bewegendekunstformen.ch
Next week I’m running a free workshop at Chisenhale Dance Space, sharing my Symptom Scores practice to explore symptoms as creative ‘dreaming’ material. Drawing on art, somatics, and facilitation approach Processwork, we’ll use drawing, imagining and improvised movement exercises to play with the choreographic potentials of the practice. Sign-up here.
Together with Andrea Carr, I’m co-facilitating an interactive ‘group process’ as part of the Antiuniversity Open Day in London next Saturday 4th May. Antiuniversity is a collaborative experiment with an ongoing programme of self organised radical learning and mutual education events. With bring it to the table we’re offering a space to learn about key concepts from Processwork, question together what excites and bugs us in the cultural sector, and explore how to connect and imagine anew. The session is free and open to anyone interested in the arts, creativity, social change and group exploration.
In April and May I’m offering a series of experimental group sessions in North London. We’ll explore symptoms through drawing, moving, and embodying creative patterns in our difficulties. Each session will invite sensing into and moving one another’s experiences, interchanging the roles of mover and witness. We’ll consider how ways of being and relating emerging through this might be needed in our wider contexts. Participants are welcome to attend multiple or one-off sessions. Find more info and sign-up on the event page.
In October I’m running a workshop as part of Antiuniversity Now 2023. Part -skillshare, -embodied ‘divination’, -sensing school, we’ll experiment with tools and ideas emerging from my Symptom Scores research, a project using approaches from art and Processwork to explore symptoms in experimental ways together. More details can be found here.
Contributing to their summer-long Systems RIP (Research In Practice) program, we’re excited to share System Surgery will be running some experimental group sessions at House of Annetta! HoA is a transdisciplinary social arts centre and resource space for people to engage with systems thinking in their everyday lives. The house is being used for community organising, education and experimentation. Individuals and groups are finding new ways to challenge and reproduce the systems that shape their worlds.
For our first two sessions in July, we are offering a space for exploring our collective experiences of stuck-ness. Stuck-ness in the face of multiple crises. (And how to not leave each other alone with it). Each session will consist of orienting to the topic, innerwork, witnessing and learning from deeper work with an individual in the middle, followed by collective reflection and bringing the learning out into the world. More info about this can be found on our event page.
As part of our System Surgery project, Tana Lucker and I are offering some free experimental online sessions to explore the experience of burnout in a small group format. Burnout is often framed as an individual failing. More and more we understand it to be a systemic issue. We are offering a facilitated space to explore burnout in a holistic and body-oriented way, holding it as a personal and collective issue. We’ll offer a volunteer the opportunity to be facilitated ‘in the middle’ while being witnessed by the group. Space for group reflection will support exploring together what might be shared in our personal experiences and possible patterns and learnings to take into the world. More info can be found on our event page.