Workshop | Corinne Skaff, Kelly Keenan & Guests — Movement Educator Forum

OBJECTIVE

This year’s Movement Educator Forum (MEF), Safety and Risk in Practice, proposes a space for inquiry into the different ways practitioners cultivate and harness experiences of safety and risk in dance and movement education contexts.

Facilitated by Corinne Skaff and Kelly Keenan, over the course of a week, 5 teachers across fields of practice are invited to lead a movement class followed by a facilitator and peer lead discussion. We begin knowing that degrees of safety and risk are present in all sensing and movement invitations:

• What kinds of safety and risks are different practices inviting?
• What kinds of safety/risks may we not be noticing?
• How are these senses of safety/risk at the service (or disservice) of movement education?

By the end of the week, the hope is to render more explicit the ways in which safety and risk are mobilised in practice, and in so doing, foster evermore positive and empowering spaces for training.