After Party: post-rave somatics >>

                                                                                is a half-day, movement-focused workshop focused on accessing the raving body  beyond the club. 

Within an Indigenous metaphysical framework, the body might be understood not as a discreet organism but as an algorithmic phenomenon- a momentary refraction arising from the deep dream of all creation, a vibratory occurrence, a Story, a Song. All phenomena are temporary, all vibration is eternal. Ceremonial technologies engage the individual and collective body in the continual making and re-making of worlds. Various western counter-cultural movements- from 60’s psychedelia to Rave culture- have sampled from land-based ontologies in the service of utopian propositions. 

Much of Norman’s practice attempts to engage the Knowledges of both spaces in generative dialogue. In this somatic-focused session, Norman offers some simple and accessible practices to attenuate to the ecstatic body and its field of relations beyond the dance floor. This half-day workshop considers the practice of raving as in inhabitation of the listening body: a body listening to a beat, becoming a beat, listening to itself, listening to other body-bodies and other bodies-beyond or past their bodiment, listening to place and to land. The practices and approach offered in this session are grounded in Norman’s own long, personal history on duty at the Front Left Speaker, as well as his many years of training in somatic enquiry and numerous movement art forms. This slow, subtle, movement-based workshop considers alternative modes of access to the Raving body beyond the club, and an invitation to the tender strip of quantum embodiment that opens in the deepest parts of dancefloor.

The fee for this four-hour offering is 800 USD. 

This workshop was first devised at the invitation of Rahul Gudipudi and Rayna Russom of Voluminous Arts, for the Voluminous Arts Summer School at the Center for Arts and Research Alliance, New York. 

Access note: this workshop includes gentle, physical movement work taking place in a low-stimulation and low-light environment. This includes standing, seated and floor based work, as well as some partner work involving physical touch between participants.