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Vital Studies

Kendra Portier

This practice functions like a river and can feel like an invocation. During our time together, I will guide us through a nearly non-stop combination of improvisation, visceral imageries, puzzle-patterns, and heat-building sequences. There will be currents to push against or get swept up in. There will be pools of the divining, communal, and vital work that dancing invokes – that life-bringing, life-giving, verve. I’m interested in the simultaneity of effort, levity, pleasure, intuition, and courage, and the ways in which the sensation of one’s body in motion can initiate compassion, illuminate inquiry, and feel really good.