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Never has the individual had access to such a variety of body-mind systems. And yet their practice is often confined to the mat, the cushion, the dance studio’s hardwood floor. We want to create a community to not only practice these systems, but also rigorously explore their philosophies and applications to life.
As part of the launch of Bushwick’s Fractal University, this course will be a research project amongst peers. Each of the 9 weeks of classes will explore a body-mind system, ranging from butoh, to clowning, contact improv, and Vajrayana meditation. The first 1.5 hours of each class will be an embodied dive into the technique, occasionally with a guest teacher. Then we’ll analyze the body-mind system over dinner: How does it structure experience? What are its mechanics? How can the ideas it presents be translated to other contexts: throwing a dinner, doing the dishes, attending a business meeting? For instance, how can contact improv’s idea of rolling be applied to a difficult conversation?
We acknowledge that the breadth of this course will come at the cost of depth for each system. Body, Mind, World will be a broad survey, in the service of drawing comparisons between the systems.
The course is $90, which will cover space rental and guest teachers.
| Sept 7 | Butoh (guest teacher: Vangeline) |
|---|---|
| Sept 14 | Alexander Technique (guest teacher: Ulysses Chuang) |
| Sept 21 | Authentic Movement (guest teacher: Lucymeg Mahler) |
| Sept 28 | Vajrayana meditation (guest teacher: Charlie Eleanor Awbery) |
| Oct 5 | Contact improvisation (guest teacher: Ching-I Chang) |
| Oct 12 | Tango (guest teacher: Eran Polat) |
| Oct 19 | Clowning (Tyler Alterman) |
| Oct 26 | Qi Gong (Alicia Botero) |
| Nov 2 | Closing project showcase |
Each student will create an artifact that documents or expresses their explorations, to share with the group at the final session. Students may work on a solo project or a collaborative one (encouraged!). This artifact can take any shape, such as: