Class Description: 

In this class, we will explore attention and the ways in which it travels through our collective and individual bodies. In times of political distress and unknown, how can we continue to move at the speed of our attention, move with our dysregulation, soften impacts, and build support systems in our dances? We will modulate between scores that center our attention through slow weight pouring and then expand outwards into more scattered forms of attention to explore how tracking multiple things at once can loosen and attune our dance. In my teachings I always like to honor these practices as research into how our dances can teach us about the world, and how to care for ourselves and each other in times of crisis and unknown.

 

Bio:

Miranda Busansky is a wanderer, imperfectionist, and queer multi-disciplinary artist  interested in the off-centered experiences of clay, dance, and performance. Their work is sewn in the fields of Wood-Fired Ceramics, Wild Paper Sculpture, Contact Improvisation, and Butoh. Clay, movement, and Miranda, are interested in the facilitation of therapeutic care, arts education, and capitalist intervention through collective practices of dance, ceramics, and improvisation. 

Miranda most recently participated in a 6 month community based residency with an organization called Free-Columbia. They inquired into the fertile relationship between dance and ceramics while observing the experience of our bodies as conduit. Miranda taught a weekly movement class called Dancing The Disturbance, facilitated monthly music and dance jams,  and concluded this residency with a performance art exhibition at Lightforms Art Center in Hudson NY.

 

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Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info.