Workshop | B. Solomon — Ancient Awakenings and Technologies

OBJECTIVE

We attempt to smash colonial structures that have been imposed upon the body to “civilize you”.

As a group, we will discover the body’s built in modalities for learning and experiencing the world that have been silenced.

The body will be given the space, energy, and love to return to its natural state of observation and desire to pursue our dreams and curiosities.

CONTENT

A daily inquisition into thought-provoking collective colonial histories will be explored — with intersections of the historical record, cultural centring and somatic knowledge.

We will identify and attempt to awaken areas of the body that have been silenced during the process of our collective industrialization. We will be exploring how the world of our bodies’ forgotten and undesirable abilities, is exhilarating, liberating and empowering.

With exercises that are designed to explore our collective human-cultural antiquity, we will at times stretch, breathe, look, meditate, sing, scream, sweat, be still, travel deep into the psyche, feel, create and choreograph, improvise, and remember.

We will always be attempting to remember who we are, Who we want to be, and How we got here.