Moving with Intention

Community Workshops taught by students in the Embodied Facilitation & Dance Pedagogy course

These workshops will invite participants into a range of activities including dance and movement explorations, theater games, hands-on art-making, mindfulness and breathing, expression and frolicking, embodied eco-poetics, and more. The workshops have grown out of research rooted in students' interests and fields of study. Beginners and people with any level of experience are welcome.   

Class dates, times, and descriptions are below

Most workshops are on Tuesdays & Thursdays 12-12:50PM

Masks encouraged for all workshops

RSVP lmwHA@hampshire.edu

RSVPs are helpful for planning. You can also just show up!

Unless otherwise noted, workshops are open to all Five College students, staff & faculty, and community members* 

Thursday April 24, 12-12:50PM: Brynn Avery /Jesse Wein-Gold 

Jesse: Inspired by eco-poetics, we will hunt, scavenge, orient, and disorient to our surroundings

Come prepared to be outside! This is an outdoor workshop (Rain date Tuesday, May 6 10:30-11:20)

Tuesday, April 29, 12-12:50PM: Isacc Bennett/Vespertariel Lafitte 

Isaac:

Learn how to slow down and process your feelings with these grounding breath and emotional regulation exercises.  

Vespertariel: 

Drawing from esoteric and anarchist pedagogical approaches, come explore playful somatic states, authentic movement, and an exercise in forgiveness. 

Thursday, May 1, 10:30-11:20AM: Cora Fenichel-Hewitt 

This workshop offers a basic intro to making cyanotypes—a chemical process that uses the sun to create original prints and photographs. Participants are welcome to bring interesting objects for printing, and there will be time to forage materials as well. 

Small demo and then we do it!! This is an outdoor workshop (Rain date rain date May 8, 10:30-11:20AM) 

Thursday, May 1, 12:00-12:50PM: Karis Knoll and Graham Frechette

“Speed of trust” 

Join us as we explore: 

*Slowing down

* Play

* Challenging the connotation of speed and effort

*What does speed do to trust? 

Masks required 

May 8, 12-12:50 PM: Celia Lucci and Kae Delacorte

This workshop will incorporate visual art with movement, self compassion, guided sensory work, and explorations of our “inner child.” Natural materials will be utilized. 

Tuesday May 6* 12-12:50PM: Mère Ternoir 

This workshop is for Black students, staff, and faculty only.

This workshop is for Black duos of all kinds–couples, friends, foes, family, colleagues, and peers–to explore intimacy and the unique experience of Black love amidst national and global attacks on Blackness. Through discussion, guided movement, and writing exercises, participants will get to know their partner deeply and investigate the liberatory necessity of Black love in an ever-changing world. Be prepared to move, soften, share aloud, be in silence, and reflect on intense subjects. Please bring a journal, water, and someone to share the afternoon with. RSVP is required: shw22@hampshire.edu