Contemplative Dance Workshop Following New Movements Showing of DROP

(Showing of DROP – Thursday 25th at Dance House)

Date: Friday 26th August

Time: 10am – 5pm

Cost:  €60 ( €40 for Dance Ireland members/Low waged)

Place: Dance Ireland, Foley St. Dublin

Suitable for: Professional dancers and professionals engaged in urban design, architect, city landscapes and health and wellbeing in the city.

Facilitator: Bernadette Divilly – Somatic Psychologist and Choreographer

This workshop will focus on key elements of a new dance performance initiative, DROP. We will share sanctuary though allowing the dance that finds usimplanted in space and place and to place ourselves beyond the limits of good or bad and to seek connection. Participants will be invited to experience Contemplative Dance practices such as the Four Postures of Mindfulness and to track their perceptions through eight sensory channels as a way of engaging with their health and well being in the city.