Freedom Within Form - Workshop and Performance Opportunity

A Dance Improvisation Workshop and the Opportunity to Perform in A Public Performance ✨✨ This workshop aims to provide a container where mutual flow and deep play allow the emergence of a consensual dance. Using sensations and images, we (re)visit techniques to ignite and expand our understanding of physical possibilities while engaged in the act of improvising. We look at our own expectations and tendencies. We make room and invite empty space, ushering more unknown. We show up, more fully present and experience freedom within form. -------------------------- This workshop includes the option to participate in WildHeart’s Shared Stage event on the evening of March 7. During the workshop, participants will receive prompts that will be used as a devised, improvised score for the performance. Shared Stage is a curated evening featuring 4–6 solo or ensemble artists from a range of disciplines, each presenting 10–20 minutes of performance work at any stage of development. If you are interested in performing as part of Olivier’s piece, artist call-time is 4:30pm, and the performance begins at 7:30pm. Learn more about Shared Stage here 👇🏽 https://www.wildheartcenter.art/event/shared-stage-march-2026 You can sign up for one or both days. Different material will be explored each day. $60-120 for a day $110-220 for both days ****Two Free Spots Available for BIPOC Folx --------------------------- About The Facilitator: Olivier Besson is a Boston based movement artist and educator who has been involved with the study and inquiry of improvisation and contact improvisation since 1980. His physical training includes Bugaku with Arawana Hayashi, Action Theater with Ruth Zapora and Sarah Hickler, Contact Improvisation with Nancy Stark smith and Andrew Harwood, and Improvisation with Julyen Hamilton. His performance work has been presented in Japan, Russia, France,Taiwan, India and the US. He curates Moment’s Notice, an interdisciplinary improv performance series produced by The Boston Conservatory At Berklee. He has been on faculty there since 2004.