Pollinate ~ Moving With What Really Matters

Dancing With What Really Matters

This May Pollinate, we are invited to water the seeds we deeply want to germinate.

Our Inquiry: What do we most want to make the focus of our attention and care?

And what happens when we bring our embodied attention here and enter a dance with what really matters?

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🌿 Pollinate, we are deeply excited to have DJ Bossi Nova blending his electronic magic with the live responsive soundscapes of Joel Brubacher, Todd Scheidel and Fynn Fooks on cello, reeds, percussion, accordion, guitar, banjo, loops, keys, voice and other sweet instrumentations.

🌿 The Purpose of Pollinate
is to create a space in KW where lovers of dance & music improvisation can come together in embodied research of what generates co-intelligence, flow and collaboration.

🌿 What is Pollinate?
Pollinate is a monthly dance event for those who enjoy moving in a focused creative space in collaboration with other dancers and with improvised sound. This includes solo, duo, group dancing, conscious witnessing & stillness.Each event hosts veteran musical improvisers to support the space with inspiration for movement, expression, surprise and delight. This could include both acoustic & electronic sound.

And each month there will be a different themed focus and guided warm-up to stimulate new ideas & practice.As usual, there will be nibbles & spring water to energize our bodies, art supplies to entice our creative spirit, a cuddle zone to rest & co-regulate, and a tickle trunk to play with identity.

Bring your water bottle to hydrate your dance.
Children are welcome with supervision.

All ages, abilities & backgrounds enrich our dance.

🌿 The Arc of the Night:
7:00 Doors Open ~ let go of words & land in the body, with a personal warm-up to live soundscape
7:30 Opening Circle (note that doors will be closed during circle)
7:50 Guided Warm-up for the Collective Body
8:00 Dance to Live Music
9:00 Dance to DJ
10:20 Closing Circle
10:30 Pack up & mingle

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🌺 Principles that support our vision of collaboration & improvisation in this space:

1) Learning
I see myself & everyone as learners, and everything that happens as an opportunity to learn.

2) Honour & Nurture Self-Trust
Everyone's experience & needs matter to the well-being of the whole. I will honour & nurture a space where I, and we, listen to and honour our needs.

3) Curiosity
When faced with the choice between curiosity & judgment or defensiveness, I choose curiosity.

4) Response-Ability
We are all interconnected and affect what happens.5) Creative Tension
I can embrace both what is happening AND my vision of what I want (& don’t want) as a creative tension.

6) Subjectivity
And when we do have occasion to speak, we speak from our own experience & perception of what is happening.

7) Practice & Play
These are core to how we learn.

8) Focus on Non-verbal Conversation
Let go of the urge to speak, unless it’s necessary, so that we can deepen our experience of our dance.

🌺 Pollinate welcomes everyone who embraces these principles in & around the dance space.

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🌸When: Saturday May 3rd

🌸Where: Church of the Good Shepherd, 116 Queen St N, Downtown Kitchener.

🌸Cost: Sliding Scale: $25-$35

Pay-what-makes-deep-sense
We invite you to be present with
~ your own capacity to pay,
~ the energies & resources that go into creating Pollinate, and
~what you wish to sustain & grow in your community

🌸If you can't pay the lowest amount, talk to us to see if we can get creative with it!

Eventbrite: pollinatekw.eventbrite.com
Cash at the door, or
E-transfer: friendsofthefloor@gmail.com

🌸We love feedback and we are interested in your experience of Pollinate! Access our feedback form HERE.