Creative Body Inquiry

Creative Body Inquiry is a series of multidisciplinary movement and art making sessions for connection, nourishment and possibility.

Working across art forms inviting a whole body approach to ways of connecting, relating and knowing.

CBI sessions are;

• accessible to all bodies and experience

• held in a ethical container that values diversity

they aim to;

• cultivate a sense of physical/embodied awareness and support relationality through connection with self (body) and others (human and other-than-human bodies)

• engage the imagination through creative themes and invitations to extend known territories

• bring attention to needs, patterns, preferences and tensions

• create space to reflect, acknowledge and share what we are noticing (sharing is optional)

Through this sensory exchange with physical properties, the rigid boundaries between self and other begin to dissipate..

what to expect;

• once we have acknowledged how and where we have landed we will start with a movement based warm in exercise to meet the score or theme for the session.

• we will spend up to 1 hour engaging creative movement through guided and improvised invitations.

  • this includes both solo, partnered and group work

• after a short check in we spend around 30 minutes giving expression to our experience multimodality through art making

• we find a landing place for our inquiry and regather to reflect and share what we are noticing and what feels alive for us now.

• closing circle

6 week spring series considers how we might use permaculture principals to create butoh fu.

Both systems rely on present observation, birth, decay, and the wisdom of natural systems.

All sessions consider rhythm, pace, weight

scores/themes explored;

week 1

The Humming Seed - Observe and Interact/creatively respond to change.

week 2

Integrate Rather Than Segregate/use small and slow solutions

week 3

Defiance and Deviation - Use and Value Diversity and the Marginal

week 4 Compost

Produce No Waste/Sustainable and Renewable Resources

week 5 Ritual

- self regulation and apply feedback/from pattern to detail

week 6 Synthesis

- catch and store energy/obtain a yield

any questions please contact Emma

The centre is everywhere

— Min Tanaka