Working with Wonder (example event)
Wed, 21 Apr
|Sequoia Seaview
This workshop will investigate how to perceive the world with a sense of wonder. You will leave with wide eyes and a renewed facility for marvelling at the mundane and seeing beauty everywhere.
Time & Location
21 Apr 2021, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm AEST
Sequoia Seaview, 4905 Great Ocean Rd, Lavers Hill VIC 3238, Australia
About the event
Dancing, human movement that is free of linear purpose, (maintenance work: get this, do that, go there); that is motivated by a desire to articulate a physical response to music, infused with feeling, is a profound act of political subversion.
But I’ll get to that. Let me first just expound upon the virtues of dance as I’ve come to understand them.
The process of dance, disinhibits patterns of social control, it loosens thinking, feeling and imagining, so that the mind and body are able to apprehend a sense of freedom.
On being yourself and belonging
“Being yourself” is so easily affected by external opinion and “likes”, (especially for younger people tied to the whims of social media), and “belonging” so inextricably bound to image, that any notion of being oneself is easily subjugated by fear of rejection.
Dancing, and giving in to the urge, is like giving yourself permission to…