Event by FLUX + FLOW : Dance and Movement Center
First Friday of Each Month
This Month: Christina Tsoules Soriano
January 8th, 2020
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
On ZOOM
*As participants in reparative justice, we offer all our workshops free of charge for BIPOC and by donation for others. Donation to: paypal.me/fluxflowdance
Move your body, mind and spirit in a guided free flowing experience. Explore your own creative movement with music and guided imagery in an inclusive community where you can expand and find grounding.
Open to all, no experience necessary.
Movement is life. As we all seek well-being and resilience during the long middle of the pandemic, join us the first Friday of each month for Livable Futures’ virtual movement gatherings hosted by Flux+Flow.
Please register through MindBody App, you will be sent a Zoom link the day of the workshop an hour before it's start time.
Who is the guide this month?
Christina Tsoules Soriano is a movement educator, scientific interventionist and choreographer at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, nC. She is interested in the places where movement, wellbeing and neuroscience intersect. Christina has developed an improvisational movement curriculum for older adults living with neurodegenerative diseases called IMPROVment (see improvment.us) that encourages authentic movement responses and brain/body connections in safe and non-judgemental ways.
What will we do?
The specifics of each gathering depend on the unique experience and insights of the facilitators (info below) but all Livable Futures’ movement gatherings are fun, inclusive ways to turn toward the conditions of our lives with support.
In this 60 minute live-streaming version of our in-person gatherings, we begin with healing visualizations that take us into…full bodied movement with music…and we close with time to absorb the nutrients of the experience.
What do I need to participate?
It is easy! Put on your comfy clothing that is good for movement and join us on Zoom! Remember to prepare your space -- a clear floor and some space to extend your arms and legs is great. You may want to bring a journal or a yoga mat but they are not necessary. It is nice to have some water nearby and please take care of yourselves!
Take care of you! If we are doing something that is not right for you or your body, adapt it to what is best for you. Notice what you notice. Keep your body in motion. Allow pleasure in effort and make self-care your top priority. You are in charge of your experience and your body.
Livable Futures Artist Facilitators:
Norah (She/They) identifies as a transnational child of hippy artists who has been dancing in community for as long as she can remember. A professor of Dance at Ohio State and co-founder of Livable Futures, Shaw creates playful, liberating spaces guided by her experience in improvisation. Notice what you notice. Keep your body in motion. Enjoy being off center. Reject received notions. Languages: English, Spanish
LROD (she/they) identifies as a Chicana from El Paso and the Tex-Mex borderlands who actively creates inclusive installations, surreal dance-works, and integrates emerging technology with care. She creates movement laboratories to investigate joy, ritual, and freedom in contemporary Latin rhythms and forms. Languages: English, Spanish
Michael J. Morris (they/them) moves, thinks, facilitates, and writes within and between dance, ritual, performance art, gender and sexuality studies, and somatic practices to support personal and collective healing and liberation. They integrate tarot, astrology, ritual and meditation into their community workshops. Languages: English
Livable Futures
Join us for workshops, performances, book clubs, audio walks and to find inspiration for feeling into action:
https://livablefuturesnow.org/
IG @livablefuturesnow
Livable Futures is an international network of creative activists seeking to foster survival under planetary conditions of unpredictability and crisis. Livable Futures projects are collaborative and radically inclusive. Established in 2016 with support from the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes, The Ohio State University, Livable Futures is an ongoing grassroots initiative.
We acknowledge the Shawnee, Miami, Lenape, and Wyandotte peoples as the traditional stewards of this land and their enduring relationship to what is now called central Ohio. We pay our respects to ancestors, elders, and relatives/relations past, present and emerging. We express our gratitude and take this as an opportunity to foster mindfulness of our present-day involvement in the pervasiveness of colonialism and ongoing oppression.
