The Body Justice Movement
DanceLab
The Body Justice Movement DanceLab
DanceLab is a space to elicit your truly authentic groove. This is a creative movement forum where your lived experience will be the choreography of body, mind, and self in communion with space and others.
When we engage in somatic process, stories and patterns emerge for discovery, release, and expansion. Your experiential dance as a complex, sensory organism is worthy of attention.
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Where | When We Dance
DanceLab | SomaSpace | PDX
Monday Evenings 5:45-7pm (doors open at 5:30 for your intro)
November 11, 18 (no lab 11/25)
December 2, 9, 16
SomaSpace 4050 NE Broadway Portland, OR 97232
DanceLab Saturday Morning Pop-UP! | CCFJ | PDX
Saturday Mornings 11am-12:30pm
Dates TBD
Community Church for Joy 8051 SE 16th Ave, Portland, OR 97202
*this dancing time & place is typically facilitated by Vincent Martinez-Grieco, the founder of Soul Motion, moving us into the future with Vincent’s Next Steps. Check out his Saturday morning class! When DanceLab is not on the calendar, I might be dancing here. Join us!
Drop-ins Welcome! | $10-$20 sliding scales | Pay with cash or Venmo at the door when you arrive | Join one lab or as many as you like
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Access the Multiverse of Body | Self
This is a self-guided dance event combined with music, experiential prompts, and physio- movement cues. The choreography will be the form of your lived experience that moves through the body, mind, and self in communion with space and others.
DanceLab is an experience that features a physio-script to guide our choices for movement and mindfulness in holistic form | anatomical process | consciousness.
Physio-script: a scientific idea about the body that can be applied to creativity in stillness and motion~
The purpose of DanceLab is to provide a welcoming container for all those who thrive with dance as a personal ritual and routine. All genres of somatic practice, previous dance experience, and intentions for dancing are welcomed with reverence and joy.
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What to Expect in the DanceLab
The script will be offered as a brief section of verbal facilitation. Most of each lab will include self-directed movement to music with opportunity to explore and express individual free will in a dancing practice.
Experience Level:
People who enjoy dancing: all ages & abilities, regardless of identity or circumstance. No previous dance/movement experience is necessary. You are welcome to join by sitting, stillness, or presence.
What to bring:
Wear comfortable clothing for movement + you. Barefoot dancing is strongly encouraged. Socks/indoor shoes are more than welcome!
You might want your water bottle | filtered water provided
Lab Fees:
Drop-ins Welcome! | $10-$20 sliding scales | Pay with cash or Venmo at the door when you arrive | Join one lab or as many as you like
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Body | Form
We all have a physical form of biochemical matter regardless of identity | ability | lineage
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Self | Exploration
The multiverse of personhood is a field for discovery | imagination | coherence | love
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Human | System
The mind-body complex is a mechanism for input | response | healing | evolution | light
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Nature | Wild
We are the natural world as a resonant biological process in flux | motion | sensuality