Somatic Dramatic: Navigating the Narrow Place
The latest offering from The Outer Edge...
It has been my honor throughout my professional life to work with a great array of extraordinarily talented people... Amii LeGendre is one of the biggest talents I know. I invite you into this opportunity to participate in her genius at creating deep, playful, and valuable experiences.
What is Somatic Dramatic?
Somatic Dramatic seeks to harvest your current ’Narrow Place’ using family constellations exercises and somatic movement practices. A Narrow Place might be a place in which you have a physical experience of being stuck, triggered, activated, or limited. In this workshop we explore self-regulation (help me settle my nervous system!) awareness (what’s even going on?) and self-compassion (I am such a human!) with play and healing.
We’ll visit some performance practices to engage creativity and witness; we seek to bring humor, care and courage to our tender selves in narrow spots. This work comes from a tradition of "Big Deal No Big Deal' where we practice lowering the stakes of performing for each other in order to get support from solo and community witnesses. We will lean into this process for our work.
WHEN: Sunday, October 20 | 11AM – 3PM
WHERE: Gateway House, Rosendale, NY
$40 donation. Advance registration required. Register HERE!
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Amii Legendre
Amii LeGendre is an LCSW clinical social worker, a choreographer, dancer and teacher, a mother, an eating disorder survivor, contender with anxiety as a familiar narrow place, with contact improvisation and movement investigation as central practices for wonder and connection.
Kathleen Mandeville
Kathleen is an Episcopal Priest, a producer of IgniVox Productions, a spiritual guide & coach, a Family/Systemic Constellation Facilitator, and a gratefully sober journey-er who also visits the narrow place of anxiety.
Kathleen has long been engaged with a practice she calls Ritual High Play where others are invited into both a silly and serious experience to enact whatever is going on.
She founded and collaborated in creating a ritual theater company, The Wyrd Sisters and created The Passion Play Project, (with David Schechter), an exploration of sexuality/ spirituality, using both performative and sacred practices. Kathleen has led retreats and workshops in a wide range of communities from college campuses, summer camps, seminaries, prisons and low-income housing.
WORKSHOPS:
inkBoat Performance | Clouds of a Crumbling Giant
Sat, October 12 | 1–1:30PM
I am distinctly honored to collaborate with Shinichi and Dana Lova-Koga of inkBoat, physical theatre and dance company. Through O+, they were seeking 'elders' to perform in their piece, so I recruited Dan Getman, Maira Martinez, Amy Little, David Budd, and myself to perform in their piece, Clouds of a Crumbling Giant. Come see us this Saturday, October 12, at 1PM in the Old Dutch Church.
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant is an examination of the life cycle and its mapping through a Daoist perspective, the nature and quality of decline through aging, and the inclusion of elder bodies within the performance landscape.
Read more about the performance and inkBoat HERE!
Kaleidoscopic Constellations at the O+ Festival Artist Clinic
Sat, October 12, 3–7PM | Sun, October 13, 1–5PM
Questions Answered, Discernments Pondered: At the O+ Festival I will offer a discerning ear to support individuals in confronting whatever transitions they might be facing, such as death, grief, birth, loss, commitment, unexpected joy, and other profound circumstances. Out of this witnessing process I will tune in to recommend what from my palette of modalities could best serve you in the present moment, including: Kaleidoscopic (Systemic/Family) Constellations, ritual, pastoral guidance, and coaching.
Learn more about O+ Festival's Artist Clinic HERE.