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www.thirdroot.org
WHAT: Dance Class for Queer and Trans People and Their Allies
WHEN: Sunday, November 15th 3 - 4:30 pm
WHERE: Third Root Community Health Center, 380 Marlborough Road, Brooklyn
COST: Suggested donation $5-15
Simply put, Third Root is an amazing place that is changing the face of holistic care. In recent years, due to exorbitant cost, holistic care such as yoga, acupuncture, massage, nutrition and herbal counseling is only attainable by the wealthy. Third Root offers these services on a sliding scale system, but also offers scholarship and work study programs. On top of this selfless service to the community, they offer specialized classes like this dance class for queer and trans people. Read below for more info.
Read more about how the center got started here. And there's more on their affordable care here.
From Third Root's website:
Way too often, combinations of rigid gender and body stereotypes and stale art conventions, among other unhelpful and oppressive ideas and characters, can leave queer and trans people with a feeling that they can't or shouldn't dance. If you have had this experience THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU!
Lovingly devised for peers, this class will be a chance to practice and celebrate the radical embodiment of vivid imagination, simultaneous realities, and a multitude of genders. No "dance experience" necessary. With a focus on sensation, listening, and breath, we will explore and learn combinations of movement that come from our own improvisations, from developmental movement patterns, and from Jules. We will discover and increase mobility, strength, and kinetic options. We will probably dance to Prince (among others). Sweats will be broken. Pulses will increase....
RSVP is required. Email workshops@thirdroot.org
Suggested donation $5-15
About Jules
Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Jules Skloot is a dancer, a choreographer, and a teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. Jules received a BA from Hampshire College with a concentration in choreography, performance, and community dance studies, and an MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Jules has had the honor of getting to teach, dance, and create with people of many different communities, ages, and experiences. As a teacher, Jules values the knowledge and creativity that already exist within people, and works to provide space, encouragement, and learning opportunities for people to express, discover, and connect through the practice of art. Jules has choreographed, performed, and taught in New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, and throughout the Pacific Northwest, and recently received a 2009 Outer/Space creative residency from Dance Theater Workshop in NYC.
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