The Empty Space: A movement + theatre lab with Nico Allen & Tasha Blank

Conscious dance opens us to expression, creativity and release in ways that rarely happen anywhere else.

With rhythm and movement, we gain access to the wild, hidden, nonsensical and brilliant parts of ourselves waiting for permission to emerge.

We open to a vast territory of pure possibility.

But what happens when we drop the music?

When we stay inside that open creative state with no beat to dictate what’s next?

What happens when we follow the impulse before we know where it’s going?

The Empty Space is a three-hour movement + theater laboratory exploring what becomes possible when we loosen our grip on the known and become available to what wants to come through.

We’ll begin on the dance floor, using rhythm and movement to open the body and wake up our creative instincts.

Then we’ll drop the music.

Through somatic theater, somatic exploration, sound, gesture and human encounter, we’ll find out what happens when we stop trying to express and let ourselves discover what’s trying to emerge.

This is a practice in radically courageous presence.

We will cultivate the trust it takes to go with the mystery we’re made of and stay with what’s here before we know what it means, where it’s going or how it will be received.

Together, we will build the bravery muscles it takes to trust what’s inside us completely.

We’ll close by returning to the dance floor, and bring everything we’ve uncovered back into rhythm.

No theater experience required or performance expected – just a body, curiosity and the willingness to enter the empty space and find out what happens next.

This is an opportunity to experience a living, evolving practice that Tasha and Nico are actively developing. It lives on the cutting edge of our facilitation. By joining, you agree to join an emergent exploration of the unknown.

Please note – if you are brand new to conscious dance, this probably isn’t the workshop for you. This is for folks with a conscious dance practice who are ready to go deeper.

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