September 16 to 20, 2024
9:30 am to 12:30 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $95 (taxes included)
Drop-in: $28 (Monday & Tuesday only)
Language of instruction: English
Questions can be asked in English because my French is basic.
This workshop is mask-friendly to accommodate teachers and participants with accessibility needs. Learn more about our Accessibility & Masking policy.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
Radical Intimacies aims to transcend traditional understandings of intimacy, which has been historically limited by colonial heteropatriarchy. Instead, it promotes a relational ontology that fosters collective awareness as interdependent beings. Positioned as a micro-political experiment, its potential lies in the trust and care shared among people drawn to the concept of intimacy. The workshop provides a platform to reconsider our relationships with ourselves, others, and the non-human world.
In this workshop, participants will identify four poetics of intimacy:
1) embodied word, dialogue & writing;
2) listening, sound & silence;
3) contact, affective touch & relational dance;
4) micropolitics & ecologies of care.
CONTENT
The workshop aims to share transdisciplinary methodologies drawing on affective theories, speculative feminism, 4E cognition, Butoh dance and deep listening practices. Through a series of explorations including Butoh dance, movement and contact, blindfolded experiences, sound and silence improvisations, embodied writing and more, participants will immerse themselves in the transformative power of both affecting and being affected. This experiential journey not only leads to an acknowledgement of the profound respons-hability (Haraway, 2016) that arises from ontological interconnectedness, but also fosters an activism of the erotic that echoes Audre Lorde’s insights.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
| Adaptable to the group’s needs | Intense emotional work Short verbal applications Exercises are adaptable Subgroups exercises Physical contact between participants |
BIOGRAPHY
An interdisciplinary artist, performer and choreographer, Aura specializes in intermedia collaborations, sound performance and Butoh dance. Her work explores the potency of intimacy, vulnerability and affect, cultivating safer spaces for alternative relationships with the more than human world.
With experience in Mexico and Japan, she has developed a transdisciplinary approach through workshops, lectures and ecosomatic encounters, offering participants a profound way of thinking, feeling and moving through and with the body. She has collaborated with more than 40 artists in Japan, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States and Mexico, and has been choreographed by renowned Butoh masters such as Tadashi Endo, Natsu Nakajima, Taketeru Kudo and Yukio Suzuki.
She is currently pursuing an MFA with the project “Radical Intimacies,” in which she established an artistic laboratory in Mexico that will soon be presented at Performance Studies International #29 in London and Studio 303 in Montreal.