📞 LANDLINE 📞 IS NEXT WEEK! Ticket link in bio!
Thursday 5/21, 7:30pm
Friday 5/22, 7:30pm
Lifeworld (563 Johnson Ave) @come.to.life.world
created by Paris Cullen in collaboration with the incredible performers:
Julianne Cariño @supple.flame
Rose Cole-Cohen
Maddie Hopfield @wibmd
Kristina Lee-Moorer @movementina
Kendall Ramirez @kendall_ramirez
Musical landscape with help from David Guzman @lichen_lover
Puppeteers:
Sarah Zucchero @mowglilolimo
MJ Markovitz @mjmarkovitz
This work blends dance and puppetry to ask the questions: How are we moved by forces greater than ourselves? How might that attempt at listening change us?
THANK YOU TO THE WIDE WEB OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING THIS POSSIBLE!!!
P🌀RTAL B🌀DIES SPRING CLASS SERIES
join us monday evenings 4/20-5/25 at @chez_bushwick
sliding scale • notaflof
dm or email [email protected] to register for the full series, a mix of classes, or a drop-in!
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#queercontactimprovisation #improvisationclassesnyc #contactimprovisationnyc #movementclassesnyc #improvisation
🌀PORTAL BODIES is back🌀
Some interests include: rigorous presence, tuning to ourselves and forces greater than ourselves, land relations, softening into fear, risk taking, failure as fertile ground, softness as a superpower, working up a sweat, spherical space, unknown miracles, using feet like hands, being upside down, CI as a queer practice
$100-200 full 6 week series
$20-40 drop-in
no one turned away for lack of funds
email [email protected] to register!
DM with any questions⭐️
portal bodies…is back!!
it is our pleasure to offer space for research with you this spring! join us for six weeks of dancing, being in our bodies, and committed practice of improvisation and contact improvisation.
Monday evenings April 20 - May 25 at @chez_bushwick
Some interests include: radical presence, tuning to ourselves and forces greater than ourselves, land relations, softening into fear, risk taking, failure as fertile ground, softness as a superpower, working up a sweat, spherical space, unknown miracles, using feet like hands, being upside down, CI as a queer practice
$100-200 full 6 week series
$20-40 drop-in
no one turned away for lack of funds
email [email protected] to join
DM with any questions & share widely🌀
⭐️ more details TBA ⭐️
Before the ending.
After the rain.
Sunlight.
I push the door open.
Julianne waves to me.
Awwwwuu——
a rainbow.
Faintly,
the rainbow’s end
is right in front of us.
Every time I see a rainbow,
I wonder—
does its end exist?
It does.
Appearing so casually.
Like children,
singing to nature
beneath the rainbow.
#nature
#serendipity
#playlikeachild
hello world wide wizards,
portal bodies, our six week series starts this coming monday, september 8th!
we are hyped to dive back in and share what is alive in our research, here is a peek:
some interests—
autonomy and expansion within tuning, systems of mutual support, softening into falling, rolling technique, active basing, precarious perches, patience, redirecting impact, committing to the unknown, take downs, using feet like hands, spherical space…
additional areas of research— the physical intelligence of the animal body, dancing the forces larger than us to radicalize and soften the edges of our choice making, grazing, exercising belonging [that does not equate to ownership], tremendous acts of shared attention, getting bigger, wider, huge
DM to register ~ come for the whole series, a mix of sessions, or drop-in !
So many questions!!!! These are a few I’ve been curious about lately— SUPPLE SPIRAL begins this Monday evening (5/12) if you want to be in the question with us🌊
Email [email protected] to join!
1. How are spirals functional?
2. How can we release more, soften more, fall more, to give more of ourselves to the dance?
3. How far can we push the strength and exertion of our bodies?
4. What are the conditions necessary for play to happen? For failure to become pleasurable?
5. How can we create spaces aimed towards connection, care, safety, solidarity, freedom?
bearing
baring
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So excited to share this work in progress next week!!!!
Monday April 21, 7pm
Movement Research at the Judson Church @movementresearch
Created in collaboration with Sarah Zucchero, Julianne Cariño, and Rose Cole-Cohen
@mowglilolimo@supple.flame
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We are excited to offer SUPPLE SPIRAL, a committed four-week contact improvisation class series with Julianne Cariño and Paris Cullen.
Over the course of four weeks, we’ll cover basic to advanced contact improvisation skills, including attention, falling, disorientation, spiral dynamic movement, tools to exercise the imagination, spherical space, listening, and readiness/availability, to cultivate individual and group awareness, play, and prayer. With four weeks together as a committed group, we will work towards building dancing relationships, sensitivity, shared knowledge, and trust.
Mondays 6-8pm, May 12 – June 2
Bushwick, BK (exact location provided upon registration)
$80-140 sliding scale (please reach out if finances are a barrier)
Email [email protected] to register!
We’d love to dance with you🌀✨
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Bodies have the miraculous capability to make the impossible possible. And friends have the superpower of waking up the heart so we may remain ready when it is our turn to show up.
This video of Paris and I dancing at @_thefieldcenter reminds me of it all.. It is time to gather in community and wake up the body, to bring us back to what is true to us.
u p c o m i n g o f f e r i n g s
🌀Tuesday CI Basics class continues through the month! Join me 6:30-8:30pm at 100 Grand St. $20, cash preferred
🌀Queer Jam is happening Friday the 15th, 3-6pm at Chez Bushwick and I am teaching warm-up! $5-15 sliding scale donation
🌀BIPOC Jam is happening Sunday the 17th, 5-8pm at Aikido of Park Slope, 630 Sackett St.! I will lead a warm-up and want to dance with you, free
face for the algoritmo ;)
here i am with some exciting chances to join me in body investigation + satiating spirals:
CI Principles workshop, in collaboration with Nessie Slyker, 9/6 6-10pm + BIPOC affinity space, in collaboration with Nessie Slyker, 9/8 2:30-3:30pm as part of Nita Little’s CI weekend in NYC
Register at
Fall Jam at The Field Center(Vermont), October 24-27
Teaching alongside Field Center staff: Lilianna Kane, Anya Smolnikova, Nuria Bowart, and Jared Williams!
Register at /fall-jam
The Brooklyn BIPOC Jam, taking place every third Sunday of the month at Aikido of Park Slope, 630 Sackett St. 5-8pm. This event is free.
Featuring a line up BIPOC teachers dear to my heart: Nessie Slyker, Juan Viveros, Luna Beller-Tadiar, and Kamaria Weems!