UBW BOLD is hosting a week-long residency at St. Olaf College from Sunday, February 15th to Saturday, February 21st, featuring four workshops!
* = This is a private engagement and not open to the public.
COLLAB LAB*
Urban Bush Women facilitates artistic creation based on themes that emerge from the group. With an emphasis on dance and song, we use various artistic genes including creative writing and visual art, to process, synthesize, and communicate. Through the Collab Lab, participants create an artistic product reflecting both their learning and their vision for the community.
dance For Every Body
Date: Wednesday, February 18
This movement jam/dance class embraces the ideas that each individual has a unique and powerful contribution to make, and that our bodies are a powerful source of agency. The goal is for "every body" to find their level of challenge and comfort and partake according to their abilities, and to appreciate the groups’ diversity as an attribute to their community. This is a movement class designed for the community so no prior dance experience is needed. Participants explore UBW's technique with close attention to the use of breath, weight, call and response and polyrhythm.
Please Note: Space is limited—operating on a first-come, first-served basis for the first 50 participants. Before the workshop, please complete and sign your liability waiver, then upload it through the interest form.
TECHNIQUE & PROCESS*
Participants will engage in a pre-professional movement study rooted in UBW methodologies. Class begins with a warm-up that prepares the participants for full-out dancing in the UBW technique with close attention to the use of breath, weight, embodied call and response, and polyrhythm. The second half of the class focuses on our movement practice and may include improvisation, phrases from UBW repertory, vocal work, and movement creation and phrase generation by participants. We embrace the idea that each individual has a unique and powerful contribution to make. Our classes invite dancers to investigate personal rigor, comfort, and creativity.
Mindful Bodies & reflective Practices
Date: Thursday, February 19
This participatory workshop focuses on self-care, rejuvenation, and (re-) constructing healthful images of ourselves and our communities. As we move, share stories, and discuss holistic practices from food choices to daily stress relief, Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitators offer simple tools for reinhabiting our bodies and reinforcing holism from the inside out. We also bring out and affirm the wisdom that is already in the group, fostering resource exchange and building community. The goal is to bring ourselves to balance, thereby bringing our families and communities to balance as well. No dance or fitness experience is necessary...just a body and a willingness to exhale!
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu
UBW Learning & Community Manager
Courtney J. Cook
BOLD Facilitator
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Contact us at bold@urbanbushwomen.org to learn more about UBW BOLD workshop offerings.