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Hello! There is still time to register for my somatic movement workshop and performance/magic overnight event at Earthdance July 12 -17th. It is part of a wonderful festival SEEDS.

"The theme of this year’s 10-day long SEEDS festival is NOURISHMENT: A crop’s environment—including soil, topography, and climate—imparts a characteristic taste and flavor and must be taken into consideration in cultivation. With care, through interaction we hope to create an ultra-lush, enriching, and regenerative culture in which to grow our art."

You can find all the information below. Hope to see you there! K.J.

The body is the soil of our thoughts and imaginations. This workshop will devise the use of somatic explorations through the lens of Body-Mind Centering ® and improvisational dance tunings to discover, enrich, and explore how we are landscapes for our ideas. The workshop will be supportive and challenging—to embody our experiential knowledge with the uncertainty of what has yet to appear, manifesting trust in the unknown. We will spend time inside and outside.

All creations pass through a time of being in the dark. It is the time of dreams, illusions, and magic. This evening into the morning event will be a guided physical meditation into the chimerical nature of dance. We will end the day and begin a new one together as we shift our relationship to time and composing space, creating and entering a theater of our own design.

K.J. Holmes is an independent dance artist, singer, and actor exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, BMC®, Yoga, Authentic Movement, Release techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies, and contemporary dance and theater. She teaches and performs throughout the world and has collaborated with Simone Forti, Image Lab, and Steve Paxton, among many others. K.J. is a 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering® and has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-integration in Brooklyn, NY, where she lives. She is adjunct faculty at NYU/Experimental Theater Wing, and continues to teach through Movement Research. She finished a two-year acting training in the Sanford Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio in NYC in 2009, and is currently developing an evening length piece This is where we are (or take arms against a sea of troubles) , which looks at where linguistics and the body meet. REGISTER NOW for Weathering REGISTER NOW for PineCones For info: contact@earthdance.net

This workshop is a part of the SEEDS Festival. In addition to the workshop, you are also invited to attend evening performances, discussions, jams, and films as well as the Saturday Community Day as part of your participation.

SEEDS workshops:

Benoît Lachambre/Extending the Comfort Zone

K.J. Holmes/Weathering & PineCones (an overnight event)

Pedro Alejandro/Soft Body/Soft Terrain, Open Artist’s Project

Dave Jacke/Eden Arising: Ecological Design as a Spiritual Practice

Plus performances, an ECO jam, disucssions, films, artists-in-residence, green m-Art, and more.

The theme of this year’s 10-day long SEEDS festival is NOURISHMENT: A crop’s environment—including soil, topography, and climate—imparts a characteristic taste and flavor and must be taken into consideration in cultivation. With care, through interaction we hope to create an ultra-lush, enriching, and regenerative culture in which to grow our art.

Come for a performance or a film, a workshop, a jam, or the whole festival!

WWW.EARTHDANCE.NET/seeds

PHOTOS: Benoit Lachambre's FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS photo by Chris Van der Burght; Pet Show (2005), choreography by Pedro Alejandro, photo courtesy of the artist; Dave Jacke teaching, photo courtesy of http://artmeetsearth.org; K.J. Holmes & Charlie Morrissey in The I/Eye of Contact, a photo series by K.J. Holmes; Diego Piñon, photo by Flo Poulain.