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Roots Fusion: 4 Workshops & Dance

Madrona MindBody Institute

200 Battery Way E, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USA Washington

48.14161980000001 -122.7623848

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Returning to Roots. Tending to Technique. Wren LaFeet returns for another day of Fusion classes designed to inspire and advance skill level of this beloved PT Fusion scene. At the foundation of all great dancing is solid connection - to one's self, to the earth, the music and one's partner. This day of workshops will focus in on 4 specific topics that when mastered, can elevate your connection and your dance to new highs. Join us for a sweet and accessible series of Cocréa Fusion workshops. 1:00 pm: Self Attunement and Solo Musicality or "Spinaesthesia" (Beginner-Intermediate) 2:10 pm: Partner Attunement or The Butter Zone or "Uniquilibrium" (Beginner-Intermediate) 3:20 pm: Micro Fusion - Playing with Subtelty (Intermediate) 4:30 pm: Macro Fusion - Body Shaping and Kinetic Dialogue (Intermediate) This day of classes is meant to bring dancers of different levels together, but be accessible to all. If you take the whole day as a progression, you’ll absolutely be able to grasp the material the whole way through. Wren has been honing his teaching for 12 years, and has an uncanny ability to bring rank novice dancers up in level with incredible speed and efficiency, and also offer seasoned dancers creative ideas and fresh perspective. With 24 years of experience in partner dancing, and a lifetime background in theater, Wren calls his teaching style, “facilitainment”. “Facil” in Spanish means easy. So combined with the word attainment, he loves to make attaining advancement and understanding both easy and fun. His primary motivation is to spread the joy, connection and healing power of partner dance. He is so happy to be returning to one of his most beloved homes, where his Mama lives, and one where he finds so much inspiration both in movement as well as in stillness. LOCATION Madrona MindBody 310 Fort Worden Way 200 Battery Way, Bldg 310 Port Townsend WA 98368 EXCHANGE FULL WEEKEND $60-$100 sliding scale (pre-register) $80-$120 sliding scale (at the door) (both the above include dance) WORKSHOP CAPACITY is 40 PEOPLE! We encourage you to preregister if you want to attend! A LA CARTE CLASSES $20 pre-register $30 at the door DANCE NIGHT $7-$15 sliding scale WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 1:00 - 2:00 Self Attunement and Solo Musicality or Spinaesthesia To most effectively move with others, it is wildly valuable to know how to move our own body. This workshop brings greater awareness to how our many parts interact with each other comprising our unique and exquisite instrument, and the different elements that comprise music. We will study tempo, duration, weight, repetition and articulation, how to listen for them in the music and how the body can express sound as movement. 2:10-3:10 Partner Attunement or The Butter Zone or Uniquilibrium The corner stone of any partner dance is a solid and supple connection between two people. This class dials in the ideas of frame and tone and endows dancers the presence and awareness required to adjust in real time, negotiate consent both verbally and non-verbally, and find the perfect connection with each new partner. 3:25-4:25 Micro Fusion – Savoring Subtlety This practice is all about PRESENCE! Technique focuses on a close embrace, a relaxed frame in which the lead/follow roles are less defined and expanding our listening to the music and our partner to hear subtlety and nuance. We'll play with stalls, tone and speed ramps, recognizing when the music is about to hand you an epic drop to accent, and how to communicate through the body in a conversation where both people are listening and speaking at the same time. 4:30-5:30 Macro Fusion - Body Shaping and Kinetic Dialogue Body shaping is an essential skill for mastering conversational dance in which both dancers are living their best lives. We'll focus on giving and taking space in both lead and follow roles to the purpose of creating a fluid exchange in which both people are listening AND responding in real time, as well as expressing their movement desires without demand. 5:30 - 7:30 Dinner Break 7:30-10:00 Fusion Dance! with DJs Wren LaFeet and TBA! MEET THE FACILITATOR Wren LaFeet Wren is an embodiment guide intent on learning how to be in right-relationship as a 21st century human so he can best serve life. A trained dancer and theater worker, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, watersheds, neuroscience and psychology that support interpersonal connection and positive change. In 2013, Wren co-founded Cocréa as a vehicle for exploring mindful, consent based relational practice through movement and dance. Channeling this intelligence, he creates brave spaces for humans struggling with disconnection and longing for a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves through the body. Wren’s own many years of seeking have led him through theater and filmmaking, circus, nomadism, psychedelic-informed music culture, consent culture, decolonization work, permaculture and most presently, addiction recovery counseling. Along his path, nature, community, relationship, humor, movement and a sense of belonging to something far larger and more unknowable than this seemingly separate self are the consistent threads with which Wren braids meaning and purpose into life. He is a TEDx speaker, featured author in "ReInhabiting the Village", certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. Wren abides on the unceded lands of the Awaswas Amun Mutsen peoples, in the San Lorenzo river watershed, in the so-called region of Santa Cruz, California. He has been dancing since 1998 and began performing on stage when he was 6 years old. He works with Embodied Recovery in Los Gatos, CA. COCRÉA At its core Cocréa is a somatic methodology for working with life’s changes and adapting with them for a more regenerative, nurturing and harmonious world. Its presentation is that of a weave of Blues-inspired Fusion partner dance, contact improvisation and expressive dance. We build resilience by holding an attitude of curiosity and interest, pausing with depth of breath, listening into what’s needed and true when offering new ideas, and before saying yes or no to invitations. Cocréa was co-founded by Wren LaFeet and Antje Schaefer amidst the Muse, Beloved & OneDoorLand community in Portland between 2012-2016. It is a Fu deeply infused with multicultural and polyrhythmic influences, and inspired heavily by the Gene Keys, Taoism and relational practices such as Authentic Relating.

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