The ocean is more than its waves, the tree is more than its branches. 
What happens when we move as both parts and whole?

Bodies in Resonance

A movement workshop exploring the singular and the collective

Nov 22 | 10am to 1pm
110-750 Hamilton St (The Post)

Artists and facilitators Guadalupe Martinez and Luciana D’Anunciação come together to offer a movement and dance workshop on the resonance between individual and collective expression.

Guadalupe is a visual and performance artist whose practice investigates the body in relation to time, space, and ritual. Luciana is a Brazilian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist working with dance, performance, and somatic practices, attuned to reciprocity between body, environment, and community. Together, they bring their shared interest in the aesthetic of body sensation in performance, framing art-making as a way to foster care for self while strengthening community bonds.

In this workshop, we will tend to ourselves as sensing beings while attuning to the larger whole we are part of. Through composition games, sounding and vocal exercises, and dance improvisation, participants will engage practices that foster intuitive decision-making, group thinking, and individual contribution.

Open to movers of all levels of experience, this workshop invites curiosity, play, and embodied awareness of how the parts build the whole. The space is wheelchair accessible. 

Sliding Scale: Drop-in $65–$100

More about the facilitators:

GUADALUPE MARTINEZ Guadalupe Martinez (b. Argentina) is an artist and educator making works that reflect on what she’s defined as sensorial aesthetics and expansive pedagogies. Interested in the capacity for creative processes to generate forms of wisdom and world-making, she uses embodied creation as means to explore individual and collective connection and healing. Martinez holds a certification with honours in Ontological Coaching from Newfield Consulting in Chile, and Natalie Roger’s Level 1 Creative Arts Therapy program in Argentina. She has attended multiple specialized trainings, workshops, and retreats around the world ranging from Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening, Presence through Movement and Somatic Mentorships, to Marina Abramovic Method and Pocha Nostra Performance Art Intensives. 

LUCIANA FREIRE D’ANUNCIAÇÃO is a Brazilian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist who has been living and working in so-called Vancouver, Canada, since 2007. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University and has training in dance improvisation, contemporary dance, somatic practices, physical theatre, clown, and dances of the African Diaspora. Her work focuses on creative reciprocity and connection between body, environment, and community. She works across dance and visual arts. For the past 15 years, she has been teaching workshops and classes in dance, mindful practices, and performance art at institutions, festivals, and independently. Whether training professionals or facilitating community projects, her teaching is grounded in the belief that every human being is creative and has something special and unique to share with the world.