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A couple of weeks after the closing of seeds; Sara, Jason, and I did contemplative movement together in three distinct environments: a windy beach, a packed nightclub, and my grandmother's house. We each wrote about the experience, and now share them here for further cross-pollination.

Contemplative Dance Practice as an opportunist, expansive, dispersive organism.
by sara e worden

Andrew Faust encouraged the Permaculture class to discontinue the use of certain botanical te… Continue

Contemplative Movement in the field:

While the workshops that I took at SEEDS provided a plethora of tools and fuel for further exploration, the regular contemplative movement sessions initiated me into practice that I could immediately incorporate into life outside. Contemplative movement is an indispensable travel- size score, something I can fit in my back pocket and take on the road. Since SEEDS ended, I have done the score several times in different environments: a cow pasture, a corner ap… Continue

During Dancing with Forest, the Interdisciplinary project directed by Terre Parker and Kate Bailey, we spent many hours at the quarry, observing, experimenting, and sourcing from the site. This led to the creation of a group score and performance. Spending so much time in one place felt like the development of a relationship, a way to more deeply (no pun intended) know and love the quarry. This is a letter I wrote to/about/with the quarry- and it's a token of the love that developed there over t… Continue

Walking in silence to a place near the stream, off the path, wet ground, cool bare feet, sunny in patches, shadow. She instructs us to take a little walk, find an object/ tree rock ground etc. and begin a duet, sensing the internal spaces of the object and ourselves. We warm up like this quietly for a while and then come together to split into partners. We alternate 2 minute solos in a semi-defined place. First thinking of ourselves as “in the place” and then thinking of being “of the place.” Sh… Continue