Art of Being
Dance/Movement Workshop with Ayako Kato
2023 Winter: Know More Not-Knowing
Saturdays, January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2023 1:00-3:00 pm CST (Hybrid In Person @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater Studio, Chicago, IL & on ZOOM, please reach Ayako to register, see below, and receive a link if you are participating through Zoom.)
This winter series will focus on Not-knowing. We will investigate our assumptions as a mover and explore the depth and richness of the invisible, intangible, and indescribable matters from science to emotion through movements to encounter facts and principles physically. It will be philosophical dialogue involved, yet it will all be connected to the wisdom so that we can apply the artistic state of being in our daily lives and beyond.
Dance is the art of being. Ayako wants to offer this workshop as a daily practice of being,—as a human, mover, performer, artist, dancer, and choreographer. Through this practice, Ayako will share the way to find our centered, grounded, and balanced selves through imagery (and physical reality) based exercises.
Through improvisational and simple compositional exercises, participants will raise a keen awareness of the expansiveness as well as the depth of being. Participants will explore ways to open up the body-mind as an empty conduit to welcome new wind flow through themselves and feel fullness.
Ayako will share how to expand and develop the tangible and intangible tensegrity (tension x integrity) through our bodies and minds to sense new relationships within and around us. Participants will be asked to create their own short dance.
Early Bird Special for 11 sessions: $120 (due on Jan 14; Single drop-in: $12-15 (Sliding scale).
Registration (including for drop-in anytime) is recommended. Just contact Ayako: furyuayajp@gmail,com
For Payment: Zelle (Ayako Tsuchiya, furyuayajp@gmail.com), Venmo (@Ayako-Tsuchiya) or PayPal: paypal.me/AyakoTsuchiya Thank you!
Please contact for any questions: furyuayajp@gmail.com