January 30-February 1, 2026 with Lower Left Artists, Margaret Paek and Shelley Senter
How can your perspective change everything?
How do your individual habits affect the whole?
How can our physical choices create dynamic shifts?
How do we build community through practice and play?
In this weekend lab together, we will dive into two techniques – Alexander Technique and Ensemble Thinking – that will help us explore how our perspective and choices affect our experience and creativity. Using individual and ensemble dance improvisations, we’ll compose, question, and play with possibilities! The Alexander Technique is an approach to understanding human learning and development through conscious awareness and kinesthetic intelligence. It begins with identifying unconscious patterns – habits that can reveal deep creative insights as well as those that may interfere with our ability to be truly present. Experimenting with principles such as (un)learning and self-observation (in relation to others) will create support efficient and conscious presence in our dancing, which we will then take into the compositional, improvisational scores of Ensemble Thinking. Ensemble Thinking is a system of collaborative, improvisational scores that build group attunement towards increasing capacity for collective action. Through experimenting with foundational scores, we explore relational space and creative power.
Schedule: Friday, 1/30 at 5:30 PM – Sunday, 2/1 at 2:00 PM
The workshop also includes:
- Healthy, delicious meals
- A gorgeous, buttery, radiant heat dance floor
- Accommodations for overnight stay
- An outside bonfire, woods for walking, and birds for watching
Workshop Cost
$325 – pay-it-forward price: this helps folks attend the workshop for whom the regular price would be a hardship
$300 – regular price: fully covers the teacher’s fees and overhead expenses
$250 – 3 spots available at this rate
Please note – We will not be offering partial participation, as it is our intention to create a container for participants to join us for the whole learning journey. If you need to have a further conversation about finances, we welcome you to reach out!
Registration: Email peaceablebarnstudio@gmail.com or complete the fields below to register or inquire about the workshop.
Upon registering, a $75 deposit is required to reserve your spot.
Workshop Location:
The Peaceable Barn
90 Peaceable Street
Redding, CT 06896
(203) 240-4742
*from NYC: MTA to Branchville. We will pick you up!