Loculus Presents:
SIDEWAYS DOOR 3: a weekend of ecstasies & escape routes 
an annual-ish festival celebrating multi-disciplinary performance, process, and practice

September 20-22 2024
Full schedule here.

I’m teaching class on Saturday September 21! 11am-1pm at Loculus studios<3

As we shift into fall, we’ll rest, play, dream, shed our skins, make creative containers and let them spill over. We’ll work with embodied practices that unfold — breath, sound, touch, writing/drawing, moving without knowing. We’ll fuck around and find out what invites us to be present in the moment as it deepens or dissolves or transforms.

No dance experience needed, just a willingness to start from where you are. Accessibility: The studio is up a flight of stairs. A portable air filter will be running during class, and windows will be open for airflow. Testing and/or masking is appreciated. If you’ve been exposed or feel sick, please stay home and rest.

tender movements
with margit galanter
saturday april 13, 10am - 5pm
thayer hill studio, worthington ma

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gentle shoots rise from winter roots, the vital dynamics of spring    

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a day for subtle and sensing movements, drawn from qigong, tuning, amerta movement, and the generative access of spring. both in studio and on land, we’ll explore together the pleasure of measure: gentle justice, reciprocity with our relations, and an earth eros rooted in dance with the surroundings, self, the collective, cosmos, and cultural life.

within the day, we will move with a simple elemental practice i learned from Steve Paxton, in honor of his life and his recent passing.

how do these practices offer tools for a nu world, a creative view, and move towards a tender and life-giving dialogue with place?  let’s see what’s possible.

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Organized by hilary and mara, in partnership with Atland, and in conversation with SCDT's Small seeds gathering. We'll have an ample break for rest and lunch, hilary will provide a nourishing meal for those who wish, or BYO.

Rates + registration
Sliding scale: access rate - base rate - solidarity rate

Early bird, register by Friday April 5th:
$80 - $120 - $160

After April 5th:
$120 - $160 - $200

with lunch:
add $13

To register
Email mara poliak [at] gmail [dot] com to RSVP, and send payment to:
-Venmo: @Mara-Poliak (profile photo = mara's face behind a bunch of plants)
- Paypal: mara poliak [at] gmail [dot] com (choose the “friends and family” option)
- To pay another way, contact mara to arrange
-If the sliding scale fee isn't accessible to you, please be in touch and we'll work it out

Location + accessibility
The studio is located at 112 Thayer Hill Road in Worthington MA - we'll provide detailed directions after registration. There are 4 stairs to enter the dance studio. The bathroom is wheelchair accessible. If you're traveling from afar, there are limited options to stay the night, contact us to discuss.

Please take a rapid test the morning of the workshop, or wear a high quality mask. There will be an air filter running in the space, and windows will be open as widely as weather allows. Reach out with any further access needs or questions.

margit galanter is a dance poet and cultural instigator living on unceded Ohlone land, also known as California - East Bay. margit’s work is offered through the vivid grove — a live art school for moving, learning, creative evolution, and collective liberatory practices. the vivid grove offers a vision of vitality and exuberance – for individuals and for the collective body. margit’s syncretic approach is based on decades of practice in somatic, movement, and art lineages. these include years of study and collaboration with Suprapto Suryodarmo, Dr. Bingkun Hu, Dennis Leri, and Steve Paxton (may they rest in presence), lisa nelson, and so so many others.

margit is quite excited to return to the region and share movement together. locally they co-directed earthdance, co-created seeds festival and the julius ford harriet tubman healthy living experience. more recently at home, they instigated Tuning Culture/ Tuning4Armageddon, a collaborative inquiry that utilizes tuning practices in an inquiry of decolonizing through dance, and Cave Forms/ cave coast collective, explorations in performance, nourishment, fecundity and the environment. All of this is nourished through sharing in context, including long-term creative practice with mara and Hilary, …so the beat goes on…..

www.vividgrove.org
pronouns: ze/zir & they/them

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tender movements is in conversation with SCDT's Small seeds: a gathering of artists rooted in contemplative practices. Performances and conversation on Friday, April 12 at 6:30pm, with Sara Smith, Vanessa Anspaugh, Amber Bemak, Hana van der Kolk, Roz Driscoll.
More information here.

Portals: Collective practice for presence that exceeds the container
This class will move between the somatic, improvisational, and generative to find freedom in form, and transformations of form. We’ll massage our nervous systems with the support of breath, sound, and embodied visualization, and juice ourselves up with movement that makes way for unexpected collaborations with ourselves, and with the place and presences around us. Through creative and compositional experiments, we'll tune to a resonant shared field, leaving room for the unknown.

This offering draws from my practice and study with Margit Galanter / Cave Forms, Lisa Nelson / Tuning Scores, Suprapto Suryodarmo / Amerta Movement, Benoît Lachambre, and Wild Goose Qigong.

Wednesdays February 7th-28th + March 6th, 7-8:30pm at Sun Studio in Florence
4-week series: $70-$100 sliding
single class drop-in: $20
No one turned away
This is an open-level class, and everyone is welcome. Accessibility info below, and feel free to contact me with any questions.

Mara Poliak practices with and among human and more-than-human collaborations, and with the body as an uncontainable collective presence. They are an anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist Jew committed to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and committed to art as a practice inseparable from the world we live in and the worlds we make together.

Location and access:
Brushworks Arts and Industry Building, 221 Pine St, Suite 245, Florence, MA 01062
Sun Studio is on the 2nd floor. It's my understanding that I won’t have access to the freight elevator -- if this is an accessibility barrier for you, please let me know and I’ll look into it further. Bathrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Covid:
A portable air filter will be running during class. The building has central heat so the windows will be cracked open for airflow. Masks are welcome. If you’ve been exposed or feel sick, please stay home and test.

Registration:
To register for the full series, send payment to @Mara-Poliak on Venmo (profile photo = my face behind a bunch of plants), To pay another way, contact me to arrange. Please register by January 31st.
For drop-ins, if you know which sessions you can attend, advance registration is appreciated. Last-minute drop-ins are also welcome!