Tantra Circle
Join us at our monthly Tantra circle. This month we have Kathleen Rea as our facilitator for the evening it’s a potluck please bring something to share with our group
“Relationship in Movement” workshop lead by Kathleen Rea
Kathleen will lead participants through simple, all levels, and disability-friendly touch-based movement exercises. Participants are invited to take on clear roles such as leader and follower or giver and receiver or someone who "elastics" away and then returns. Participants will switch roles so they can have both experiences. The simplicity of intention and clarity of roles invites people’s relationship stories to quickly come to the forefront coming alive in the dances. Life stories and life patterns are lived out in these simple dances. Feelings and images that have arrived are then shared verbally in small groups in a process that encourages listening and reflecting back what was heard.
In the next part of the workshop participants design their own movement experience in small groups with the intention of exploring or expanding into relational issues that arrived in the initial dances. They are invited to do this as a way to practice something new or challenge themselves. For example, a person who notices the discomfort in the “elastic" away exercise may call on their group members to dance with them and then leave so they get to practice that moment of letting go repeatedly. This repetition helps participants play with and explore themes.
We will end with a closing circle that will incorporate grounding and group sharing
Biography:
Kathleen Rea danced with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). She fell in love with contact improvisation 25 years ago and has been involved in the form ever since. She has choreographed over 40 dance works and has been nominated for 5 DORA awards. Kathleen has a learning disability, which means writing takes 6 times longer than average. It is one of life’s mysteries that despite this struggle she loves writing and is a published author (The Healing Dance). She has a Master’s in Expressive Arts with a minor in Psychology. She was a psychotherapists in private practice for 17 years and recently left that career to pursue dance arts more fully as a teacher, performer and choreographer. In 2023 she was an intensive teacher and Touch and Play MA. She is a certified teacher of the Axis Syllabus and Buteyko Breathing. She is the director of REAson d’etre dance, a Toronto not-for-profit dance company that is contact improvisation based and produces a weekly jam, a Film Fest, and dance theatre productions. She has autism & works to educate the world about neurodiversity. She developed the well-read REAson d’etre Dance Jam Guidelines which over the past 25 years have influenced consent culture in the contact improvisation worldwide community. She also is the founder of the Contact Improv Consent Culture Blog.
Limited space available for this event please contact me or rsvp.