The Institute for Somatic Communication (ISSC) is offering a four-day Somatic Research Training in collaboration with Reinhardt University.
Where: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
When: June 3-6, 2027
Deadline for applications: May 27, 2027
This Somatic Research Training provides specific research skills for participants intending to study the physicality of Somatic Communication through Improvisational Solo, Duet, and Ensemble Practices, by means of methodologies established by Nita Little for the ISSC.
The ISSC offers embodied practices of Relational Intelligence and other transferable skills of Somatic Communication to further the work of dancers, affiliate researchers, and anyone whose ultimate goals are to enhance the lives of any and all peoples. This Training Workshop is meant for dancers to extend their research beyond choreographic choice-making to find that Somatic Communication offers emergent relations of immediate coordination, synchronicity, and play. Outcomes will include a deeper understanding of the potentials for Co-Creative Practices where new knowledge and data might emerge, as well as access to establishing CoLab research groups under the resource umbrella of the ISSC.
Learning research skills requires studies of language, theoretical concepts, and the conceptual grounding that influence embodied states: their application and analysis within movement events. While movement will be a part of this workshop it is not the sole concern. In other words, this is not a dance movement workshop lead by Nita Little. This is a training to develop particular capacities and skills for artist-based inquiry and research into what dancers do when they engage in acts of communication.
The workshop format will involve theoretical and practical work, including training that involves listening, moving, reading, and practicing research interview techniques with one another. We will investigate the language of embodied states that support somatic communication within contact improvisation and ensemble practices, offering dancers a shared language base from which to anchor their research inquiry.
More on Learning Outcomes and Prerequisites can be found in the Registration Form!
How to apply / register:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScocYtK9WpF7OmyWJrXlYAZSW1ivtnA0ouoKoboLh09XBKcqA/viewform
Costs for participants: $225-350 Sliding Scale
Contact details: info@somaticcommunication.com
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