Dancing Wilderness Project Sächsische Schweiz: July 2021

The Dancing Wilderness Project Sächsische Schweiz summer 2021 gatherings of hiking and dancing in nature facilitated by Karl Frost Trip 1: 23-25 July Trip 2: 3-10 September What: hiking, movement exploration, and quiet time in nature in forests and beautiful rock formations. somatic and sensory investigation and simple, reflective quiet time together in a landscape of forests and sandstone formations facilitated by Karl Frost. 'sleeping outdoors under rock shelters ("boofen"). Where: Sächsische Schweiz, a cross-border park and nature preserve an hour east of Dresden on the German/Czech border Cost: 23-25 July: 120 - 240 euros 3-10 September: 300 - 600 sliding scale sliding scale... pay what you can in the range, No one turned away for lack of funds **A Non-profit Fundraiser: Karl is not making any money from the event. All profits go to grassroots Environmental Defense and Environmental Justice causes. ** -- The Dancing Wilderness Project was started in 1997 by Karl Frost as an exploration of the interrelationships among wilderness experience, body-based creative process, and how we choose to live our lives. With open mind and senses, we look for an immediate experience of nature: experience unmediated by ideas or preconceived limits. We explore… Nature as source of metaphor and inspiration for movement and image Quiet experience of nature as food for the soul Finding a different sense of space, time, and relationship away from civilization Dance not simply about the environment, but with it Extrapolating our knowledge and practice of dance and creative process in the studio to new environments: forest and mountain top as the stage and earth, pine needles, and rock as the floor. The days will be a mix of quiet hiking and exploring time and simple movement scores from the Dancing Wilderness Project, including Slow Walk, Blind Walk, Authentic Movement/Deepening, and contact improvisation in and with the natural environment. We find a sense of "dance" emerging out of functional movement exploration on unusual surfaces and in unusual spaces. As we dance in nature, rather than looking for spaces most like a dance studio, we instead look to see what each space offers. We'll be dancing with sandstone, trees, fallen leaves of past seasons, and each other. for more information, see the website... www.bodyresearch.org