Good Women Dance Collective: Practice and Process with Susanna Hood and Sarah Bild

This 5-day intensive will be divided into 3 hours of practice and 3 hours of creative process. Pulling from their practices of Open Source Forms and Action Theater, Susanna Hood and Sarah Bild will guide participants through physical and sensory awakening of the body/mind to prepare for creative practice. Inviting breath and imagery into the physical self, we will open ourselves to our physical and metaphorical environment and practice noticing, tending to and following creative impulses as they arise, opening a dialogue between inner experience and outer awareness. We will develop short studies, share them with the group and learn to speak about what we see. How do we move from the playground of creativity, the free generating of material to creating meaning in performance? How does one impulse invite another? How do we give shape to those impulses? What are the structural possibilities at our disposal? How do we embody them for full expression? How do we frame them in space and time? These are questions we will investigate and experience in the afternoon hours.