This workshop explored how we sense, perceive and imagine through the body.
How does the body fold out into space?
How do we receive our environment?
How do we locate ourselves?
We must practice whole body listening, attending to rhythms of the heart, the body and the space. Through mapping, we can imagine the possibilities of this body’s organization and re-organization. We can spatialize relationships that are contained within, and others that extend beyond our edges to other bodies, places and memories.
Our play incorporates scientific literature, poetry, music, nature and bodies bodies bodies.
The workshop was led by Hana Shokr. Here are some of Hana's reflective thoughts about this workshop.
Hana is a movement researcher and architectural designer. Her home stretches between Cairo, London and Oxford. Her teachings draw from a range of movement disciplines and somatic practices. She is keen on uncovering frameworks for a meaningful yet playful dialogue with the body, between bodies and in space.
