Facilitator: Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon Collective
Join us for a collective movement practice for and by BIPOC!
For this workshop that doubles as one of our bi-monthly practice sessions for the Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon collective, interdisciplinary artist Renée Bellamy and filmmaker/creative Nicky
Chue will be our facilitators.
Renée will lead movement and reflection exercises that take steps towards conjuring joy, hope and
possibility. Nicky will be sharing a writing exercise around the upcoming full moon and its themes of release and sealing of intention.
Responsive and open to BIPOC of all ages with an interest in exploring these themes through movement and writing.
Session prep: please bring water and notebook/ paper
Access info: All events will be free, hosted on zoom, will have live transcription notes provided using otter.ai. Please email info@12ocollective.com for any access questions.
Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon is a London-based movement collective for and by people of colour.
Our aims are threefold: to develop a framework of practice that fosters a movement community
beyond traditional dance institutions and contexts; to investigate through dance, the social, political and historical conditions of our practice, as well as the meanings and stakes of building a movement for and by people of colour; and lastly, to explore collective movement practice as a tool for community organising toward social transformation. Since October 2019, we have organised free practice sessions twice a month, with rotating, volunteer facilitators.
Utilising a triadic approach that integrates shared movement materials, guided improvisation and discussions on current socio-political issues, we see our movement practices and artistic
expressions as inextricable from our lived and historical experiences against and beyond colonialism, heteropatriarchy and racial capitalism.
This event is part of To the ritual knowledge of remembering, a curatorial project led by artist and community healer Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson as part of an online curation residency with 12ø collective. To find out about future events and more information about the project go to www.ritualknowledge.com.
Image Credit: June Yuen Ting