THIS IS A THREE DAY INTENSIVE
APRIL 10-12 from 12-3pm each day + supplemental affinity space breakout groups!***
PARCON RESILIENCE is an anti-racist, site specific movement practice that challenges isolationism and social conformity through inclusive, cooperative, investigation or our nonverbal relationship to bodies, objects and environment.
The roots of the form were inspired by PARkour and CONtact Improvisation. As well as a desire to find resilience for all people to fully move in their bodies and psyches into brave spaces while in collective- critically thinking about reality and experimenting with utopias.
No experience is needed; but acquaintance with anti-racist theory is highly recommended - because we layer our embodied exploration onto work like this -
Heteropatriarchy and The Three Pillars of White Supremacy by Andrea Smith
Our practice is trauma-informed, and the aim for sessions is to clearly state our community agreements and hold a container for open communication & feedback from the collective.
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Orientations to Parcon Resilience and Tech Tutorials in ZOOM will happen the week before. We will contact folks who register to coordinate dates and times.
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This event is co-produced by Livable Futures, a project of Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme." and the Ohio State University department of dance.
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here is a testimony from our last Parcon Resilience in person workshop:
This was the most an extraordinary experience. There was the sense of playing a small, exploratory part together in the making of a new "language"—not only verbal and moral but, inseparably, embodied—and a new world, a piece of a huge work in progress, like a quilting bee of the future. The movement was fun, playful, searching, creative, homing our attention on the bodily location and sensation of an emotion or memory. The depth and genuineness of contact with others was what I did not expect. It was so moving.
I was changed by those two hours. As I walked home I realized I was centered not in my head, not even in my heart, but deeper, in my hara. It was a completely new feeling. I have felt centered in my hara gravitationally, but this was emotional.
- Annie Gottlieb