The Web of Connection
with Jenny Macke
Sept 25-27, 2020, Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto, ON M6H 2X4
Cost: 275$ (230$ Early bird discount till Aug 21)
Schedule: Friday 7 - 10pm / Saturday 11 - 6pm / Sunday 11 - 6pm
contacts: Majero Bouman: majero@openfloor.org
Rhondda Snary: rhondda.snary@gmail.com
FB: Open Floor Toronto; Treedancer Productions
As humans we are social and relational beings. We hunger for connection to others while at the same time longing to feel our individuality and uniqueness. This movement workshop is a lab, seeded with pure curiosity, to investigate the conditions that are most ripe for our authentic, creative, intuitive self to be present, while in relationship to a larger web of connection.
Dance will be our medium. Our hearts, bodies, minds and souls will seek muse in self and other. Working with resources of Open Floor Movement Practice, we will travel threads that help us unwind what is in the way of connection. We will also draw in the threads, which may have gotten tattered or loosened, that help us find our own way back to center.
We root our investigation in both the physical and scientifically-based webs that exist in our world, like the fascia of the body and the threads of mycelium** in the earth. So much that was formerly unseen or unknown is getting unearthed through microscopic technology and testing. In addition, the oldest technologies of knowing: instinct, intuition and imagination, will get woven into the mystery of our dances, bringing the unseen, in us, to a more palpable and accessible state of interconnection.
**mycelium - a web of fine silky filaments, often underground
Jenny Macke is a soft and wild teacher. A nurturer and an edge walker in one, she is always willing to dive deep and seek the unexpected. Jenny has been teaching Conscious dance and movement for over 20 years, and has a Master’s degree in Leadership Education.
She contributes to the development of curriculum and training programs in Open Floor Movement Practice, her modality of choice. In addition, she is a bodyworker who is infinitely fascinated by the fascia of the body and how it shapeshifts and adapts for us to survive and thrive. Her greatest daily influence is living on 14 acres outside Bellingham WA, by a wild river at a magical place called River Root Farm.