Starship Somatics is a community dance modality Petra Kuppers developed during the early days of the COVID pandemic, creating online environments for accessible, disability-culture-focused somatic creative movement. These classes use improvised movement (inner and outer movement as it is accessible and appropriate to participants), dream journeys, sounding, writing, and drawing as transportation devices.

Workshops are firmly grounded in the sensory immediacy of any given setting; whether beds or sofas at home, or studios, rooms, floors and windows in a collective space – flying wide to honor ways of being of all kinds. All are welcome, grounded in disability culture values.

This methods workshop (live in Ohio) is joined virtually by Kuppers' usual Starship Somatics online session, 11am-12pm (free through Movement Research). After the first-hour’s dreamjourney/experience, the in-person group will continue choreographic explorations. Please bring loose clothes, and some writing materials.

For more information about Petra Kupper's session and methods, click, Petra Kuppers - Starship Somatics

Registration is required.

In-Person Registration: Space is limited to 25 participants. Masks are welcome. To register for the in-person session, select the ticket called, "Starship Somatics Registration: In-Person

Virtual registration: If you want to join the online experience, register here: https://movementresearch.org/c...

Accessibility: For accommodation requests, please contact Lori at esposito.115@osu.edu

Image Description: Outdoor performance of people working with a Fred Benjamin jazz movement tuning in a Crip/Mad Archive Dance at the Dance Studies Association 2021 annual meeting. Photo: Elyse Mertz

Sponsors: The departments of Art Administration, Education and Policy, Dance, Theatre, Film and Media Arts, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, English and Disability Studies, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies Graduate Student Association (DSGSA) and Art Possible, Ohio