DANCING... GENDER–LESS!
A playshop on undoing gender in and through contact improv dance
How does gender come into your dance? Many of us experience tremendous liberation from the constraints of gender roles through contact improv.
This playshop from Marie Chabert and Dr. Noah Martin will explore ways to bring that kind of freedom into the rest of your life and your relationships, as well as how we can open ourselves up to greater self-expression and deeper ways of relating to each other in the dance space.
This playshop will involve:
- movement games to help reveal ways that gender shapes patterns of movement and ways of relating
- philosophical ideas to help us understand the role of gender in our lives
- space for self-reflection and journaling
- …and of course, time to jam!
14:00–18:00 14th March at Chisenhale Dance Space
​​​​​DECODING THE ANTHROPOCENE
The aliens have landed in Tower Hamlets and the fate of the planet rests in the hands of College of Modern Anxiety's panel on interspecies communications to help them understand the perplexing world of humans. Their first question—what does it mean when someone from their spin class asks if they want “to grab a coffee?”
We’ll:
- Use semiotics to decode the myths we tell each other about ourselves
- Experiment with different ways of seeing, and with the limitations of seeing as a way to understand the world
- Invent new myths to guide us towards the interspecies future that we want to build
New date TBC