BODY WEATHER NAARM
Body Weather is a physical training and philosophy beneficial for all kinds of performers, and anyone looking to strengthen and tune their bodies and expand physical range and qualities of movement. Body Weather was founded in the 1980s in Japan by Min Tanaka and further developed by proponents worldwide.
This 5-week training series taking place on unceded Wurundjeri land during Poorneet season, will emphasise fitness, sensory perception and improvisation. We will sometimes go for walks to gather sensory qualities from nearby sites. Open to experienced and new Body Weather practitioners, Gretel Taylor will introduce MB (Mind/Body or Muscle/Bone), a conditioning work-out, as well as processes for improvisation, considering our bodies’ interrelationships as ecologies.
5 week block: 22 Oct - 19 Nov 2024
Tuesdays 6pm—8pm
BOOKINGS: https://events.humanitix.com/body-weather-naarm-oct-nov-2024
Cost: $110 Full/$95 Concession for block of 5 sessions.
$66 for 3 sessions to use within the series.
Casual drop ins welcome if you have done Body Weather before. $25 per session
Accessibility
Please contact Gretel to discuss your accessibility needs.
Wear comfortable, layered clothing and bare feet or runners.
Basic fitness recommended but a range of levels is accommodated by the class format.
Facilitator: Gretel Taylor trained at the Body Weather Farm in Japan in 1999 and 2000, which informed her performance, teaching and research (as BodyPlaceProject). She has performed site-responsive works in many odd places, locally and internationally. Gretel developed an improvisational ‘locating’ practice as a mode of relating to place during her PhD (2009) and as an ongoing inquiry, with particular interest in ecological and decolonial lenses on site-based performance. She has taught Dance and Performance at Deakin, RMIT, Monash and Victoria University, as well as regularly at Dancehouse. www.greteltaylor.com
