Exhale Fusion Retreat

https://motleyhue.org/exhale A new kind of retreat hosted by Flouer Evelyn & Pomona Longshadow. 🌿 🌬️ 💨 Exhale is an invitation to press pause and reconnect with yourself and your body. Step away from the pressures of the outside world and dive into your inner world of movement and connection with Flouer and Pomona. Here, you’ll find the space, time, and guidance to explore your own organic way of moving. Inside partner dance connection, you’ll explore the dance of deep trust and inner strength, finding how to hold space for each other without losing the thread of your own movement. We’ll be focusing on opening our bodies with care, precision, and spaciousness, so that the daily six hours of movement in the classroom doesn’t feel overwhelming. As a dancer, you’ll grow leaps and bounds, finding new ways to let go of old patterns and integrate new ones, allowing you to be more subtle, supple, and sensitive. You will develop your ability to connect to both yourself and more partners on the dance floor. Flouer and Pomona are honored to get the opportunity to share the material they have collected over the many years of their practice, drawing upon techniques of Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Liberato Dance, and Brazilian Zouk, and fusing them with elements of Groove and Momentum that are typically more familiar for fusion dancers. This is cutting edge material that has fundamentally changed the way that Flouer and Pomona approach their personal movement and connect to others. ............ 🌿 Participants will work on: • Body Mechanics: Exploring how to move efficiently, finding fluidity while maintaining structural integrity. • Flow & Movement Possibilities: Discovering new ways to move by blending contemporary dance, Brazilian Zouk, and Contact Improvisation. • Partner Connection: Developing sensitivity to the shared movement between yourself and a partner, while remaining connected to your own body. • Creative Exploration: Engaging with creative influences and allowing them to shape the way you approach the dance. ................ 🌿 Details: • March 2-7, 2025 (before Motley Hue), 6 hrs of instruction per day • Where? 3 hrs North of NYC, near Jefferson NY. Details on website. • Registration Prices on the website. Sliding scale and work/study available. .............. 🌿 Who is this retreat for? The retreat is intended for dancers or movers from improvers onward who are looking to deepen their understanding of their bodies and what they can do. We have an application process so that we can know more about you to prepare our material, and to give you options of paying without extra credit card fees. Registration is first come first serve. 🌿 This is for you if... • You either have some regular experience partner dancing for at least a year or so, or you are an excellent mover in another discipline and are interested in finding a way into the connection of partner dance. • Activities such as rolling around on the floor, self massage, following imagery or meditation, and doing other “silly” things are either very comfortable for you, or if you have some fear around it, you are willing to give it a go and jump in! • You are comfortable dancing in your socks or soft soled slippers. • You are eager to find new ways of moving your body and willing to accept caring instruction around it. • You don’t mind switching and participating as both a leader or a follower in class, even if you have a preferred roll. • You want to feel more connected, balanced, controlled and supple in your dancing. 🌿 This is not for you if... • You are just starting your dancing journey and don’t have any experience in other embodied movement forms (ex: martial arts, solo dance, or years of consistent yoga)- it will probably be too much for you! • You are not comfortable rolling around on the floor or participating in other activites that are not upright standing. • You want to stay in one lead/follow roll the whole time. • You are not interested in participating in group activities and being part of the team we are building together. ........... Email [email protected] if you want more information to your inbox as it comes out.