Sponsored by Movement Research, these two workshops are a continuation of and makeup dates for workshops held last year in the anatomy series.
Like all current Dark Room Ballet classes, these workshops:
- Will take place virtually using Zoom
- Prioritize the educational needs of blind and visually impaired adults
- Are free, especially for blind and visually impaired students
- Are taught by Krishna Washburn, a blind professional dancer and dance teacher
Workshop dates:
- The Complete Lower Body: from the soles of the feet to pelvis — Saturday, March 19 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern / New York Time)
The Complete Upper Body: from the fingertips to the crown — Saturday, March 26 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern / New York Time)
You can participate in either or both workshops.
Our instructor Krishna says of the workshops:
These two workshops are meant to help participants cultivate deep levels of body awareness, to get to know and appreciate the unique features of their own anatomy, and to feel movement in a highly specific way that can then be described verbally (self-audio description). These workshops are an invitation to disabled dancers, especially blind and visually impaired dancers, who may have been denied important information about their own bodies, or who have been discouraged from trusting their own physical perceptions, to find certainty, confidence, and joy in movement.
These two workshops are not fine-grain scientific anatomical analysis, but workshops that do deep dives regarding sensing highly specific anatomy on more targeted regions of the body will be coming up later this year (June: Pelvis, August: Foot, November: Neck)
To register:
Please write to: info@darkrooomballet.com
Please let us know which workshop you would like to attend…
If you are not blind or visually impaired, please let us know why you would like to attend these workshops…
If you are a current or returning Dark Room Ballet student who has already registered, you don’t have to write, but you can if you want to!
Please note:
These workshops are separate from Dark Room Ballet Introductory Level ballet classes for blind and visually impaired adults (which begin again on Saturday, April 9th) and Dark Room Ballet Open Level classes, which are ongoing and open for registration; please let us know if you are interested in either class so we can learn more about you as a potential new student.