Description
Colleen Bartley
Reflection Pool
STUDIO 6
WEDNESDAY 29TH JUNE. 11:30 -13:00
Reflection Pool This session offers space for people to drop into bodytime and listen to what arises in response to the conference. There will be scores for landing in the body and writing/moving/drawing/sounding with what arises. This workshop is intended an antidote to overstimulation, a place to digest and process the previous days working together. It is placed at a time in the schedule to allow for integration and reflection on the experiences in the other sessions. There will be options for working solo or with others, inside or outside the studio. The roots of the practices are sourced from work with Simon Whitehead, Caryn McHose, Nancy Stark Smith, Susan Schell, Quaker Meeting, Pauline Oliveros , Steve Paxton , Lisa Nelson and inspired by Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange.
About Colleen:
Colleen Bartley has Dance and Education degree from Swarthmore College and a diploma in Community Dance from Laban and years of experience with Somatic Education worked directly with most of the founders of Contact Improvisation. She’s been influenced by teachers of contemporary and post-modern dance, experiential anatomy with Gary Carter and Caryn McHose, Authentic Movement with Susan Schell, Improvisation & Composition (Tuning Scores with Lisa Nelson, The Underscore with Nancy Stark Smith, Ensemble Thinking with Nina Martin) and is very active in dancing, organizing, writing about and documenting dance. She has an invisible disability which informs her practice as a teacher and an artist and the communities she engages with. She believes that its everyone’s birth right to move, that people are inherently creative, movement is our first language, and sees dance as a way to empower people, to effect social change and to build community.
