9 classes, July 30 - September 24

Tuesdays 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

At Vangeline Theatre: 126 10th St #207, Brooklyn

Sliding scale: $100-$1100. Suggested tiers: $100 (scholarship level) to $550 (standard hourly rate for movement classes) to $1100 (supporter)

Class limited to 16 students

<aside> 📋 Application deadline: July 15 - apply here

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About

In this course, you and a friend, family member, collaborator, or partner will explore relating through different body-mind systems.

Body-mind systems come with implicit yet potent philosophies, ones capable of answering fundamental questions and supporting a vivid way of life. Yet their practice is often confined to isolated settings: the mat, the cushion, the dance studio’s hardwood floor. This course is for people who wish to break these systems out of isolation, letting them not only inspire ways to move, breath, and play; but also how to relate.

During the 9 weeks we will practice & analyze four body-mind modalities – clowning, tango, bodywork, and contact improv – asking the question: how can they make our relationships richer?

Class schedule

Here is the current schedule (there may be a couple of changes based on teacher availability). Each week starts with at least one hour of practice followed by analysis & a variable activity.

Example class agenda:

• 6pm-7pm – Practice
• 7pm-8pm – Analysis (feel free to bring dinner and eat it over this portion)
• 8pm-9pm – Activity to apply the practice to relating

The facilitators

Alicia Botero is a writer, urban planner, and dancer from Bogotá, Colombia. Tyler Alterman is a writer, entrepreneur, and occasional performance artist from NY. Both are dilettantes in many forms of moving, meditating, and mentating with an enthusiasm for synthesis and application.