Join Philly Dance Share and The Whole Shebang for a weekend of body technologies (technique/somatics) and creative practice workshops with Philly Dance Artists, exploring Rigorous Play towards Multiple Ways of Being.

Rigorous Play: We tap into our childlike wonder and curiosity, to explore and make without presciousness, judgement, or pre-editing. We approach this practice of play with rigor– focus, diligence, care. We take our play, our joy, our fun, seriously. Loosely. This work of movement is vital and profound and at the same time- its just dance! 

Multiple Ways of Being: The counterpart to our rigorous play, perhaps the outcome. How can we use this practice of rigorous play, to explore our multifaceted natures as movers makers and performers. Rigorous play as an oxymoron, the practice of letting disparate ideas live all at once in our bodies, in our movement, and in the room. “Both things can be true.” We explore confusion and contradiction, and what can emerge from sitting with the discomfort that comes along with those concepts. Maybe the discomfort dissipates after a while to make way for— something yet to be discovered!