Practice and Play: A Self-Trust Pollinate

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For the next while, we have decided that each Pollinate will focus on one of the principles that guide us in our practice and play.

This deep-winter Pollinate we will focus on Self-Trust.

Self-trust. What does this mean to each of us?
And what feeds it?

This Pollinate will also fall close to the one-year anniversary of the death of Tasha Allain, whose fierce commitment to her self-trust feels woven into what Pollinate has become.

Tasha... tuning into her own sense-making and intuition, finding her way through deep challenges to create learning and meaning... with fierce rigor and mischievous delight.

Tasha... holding a sacred space for all of us to trust ourselves as part of a larger unfolding mysterious, seriously playful universe.

This Pollinate we wish to honour and celebrate Tasha and what it means to each of us to create a space for deepening our trust in ourselves.

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❄This Pollinate we are deeply excited to move to the live responsive soundscapes of Erwan Noblet, Joel Brubacher, Todd Scheidel, Fynn Fooks & Philippe Samutin on electric violin, cello, percussion, accordion, guitar, loops, keys, voice and other sweet instrumentations.
Followed by... a mystery DJ...TBA.

❄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 January 17th, 7:00 -10:30pm

⛄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.