animate intimacies: body weather /\ voice being

animate intimacies: body weather /\ voice being

A two-day immersive workshop by weather beings - a performance collaborative co-founded by Victoria Hunt and Moe Clark. 

Drawing from principles that animate beyond human kinships and call backwards into the future of indigiqueer brilliance and Indigenous knowledges, this workshop invites participants to expand their imaginations and perceptual capacities.

Through heightened sensory awareness and body-voice activations, we will attune ourselves to the intimate processes and cycles that unfold within and around us. Expanding on personal, collective and cosmological frameworks, which centre Mâori and Métis practices, we will explore the interplay of ancestral connections, creative lineages, earth relations and personal intuition to awaken realms of play, curiosity, and alignment.

Drawing from practices of Body Weather, image work, vocal improvisation, sonic meditations and deep listening, we explore in circle work, small ensemble and partner practice, to deepen into tactile and sensorial relationships as catalysts for transformative states.

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WORKSHOP DETAILS

18-19 JANUARY 2025
10AM - 3PM (with a 1 hour lunch break)

$100 - $200
-Sliding scale depending on one's financial means & generational wealth. Suggested amount is $120
-Partial scholarships available upon request for QTBIPOC by emailing weatherbeings@gmail.com

THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH
1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL COUNTRY

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

weather beings is a performance collaborative co-founded by Victoria Hunt and Moe Clark in 2019. Weather Beings was created as a site to examine the intersections of Mâori whakapapa and Métis wâhkôhtowin (kinship systems), and to assert a critical position to reclaim, restore and rematriate feminine and queer knowledge into our cultural and creative practices. As collaborators, we navigate thresholds between what is ‘known’, what is withheld or ‘unknown,’ and what is being dreamt into being, while upholding a framework of ethical co-existence and restorative co-resistance. In essence, we activate creative practices that refuse violent linearities by dreaming backwards into the future. Encoded in this dreaming are Te Reo Mâori and nêhiyawêwin languages, where old words create new worlds.

weather beings were recently named associate project at CCOV (Centre de Création O Vertigo, Montréal, CA), and their upcoming creative work has been selected for two-year accompaniment through the Montréal-based performing arts company. 

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Photo: courtesy of Victoria Hunt

ID: Unfurling fern frond signalling new beginnings in a verdant green forest.

This project is proudly supported by Critical Path.

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal clans, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.