Becoming water

Facilitated by Marcella França
Friday, June 9 from 6:30pm-8pm

Please note:

• The workshop will be delivered in French and English
• Participants are encouraged to wear light-coloured, comfortable clothing  and to wear socks
• Space in the workshop is limited, reserve your spot here

Description:

Becoming Water is the result of 15 years of research by multidisciplinary artist Marcella França, dedicated to the relationship between science and Buddhist philosophy in which she explores the physical-chemical aspects of water, correlating them with issues such as fluidity, impermanence, time and memory. 

This workshop/performance invites you to immerse yourself in the water cycle through movement. You do not need experience in dance to participate, all are welcome!

This improvisational performance experience blends the techniques of guided meditation, somatic dance, performance, and contemporary dance. The experience promotes a state of flow, decolonizes and unblocks the body, challenges our notion of linear time, heightens our intrinsic relationship to water, and opens creative horizons. The workshop explores rituals of emotional self-healing, increases awareness of the body and space, and connects participants to their volatilities, cycles, and fluid essence.

The workshop will take place in two parts:

1. A somatic dance and guided meditation workshop with visual arts, in which the artist will guide the dynamics of movement and project images of water on the walls, to facilitate a performative experience of meditation in movement.
2. A roundtable discussion to talk about the experience. We will address themes such as time, decolonization of movement and bodies, memory and ecological awareness.

Participants are encouraged to wear light-coloured, comfortable clothing  and to wear socks

About Marcella França:

Marcella França is a Brazilian contemporary artist and performer based in Montreal. With a practice of close to twenty years of experience in hybrid languages blending contemporary dance, digital technologies and visual art, França expands the conventions of art to create public art, performance, video art and immersive installations that explore the relationship between nature, feminist issues, existential, political and ecological contemporary questions.

Water is the key element of França’s artistic research. She explores the physical-chemical aspects of water, including fluidity, volatility and materiality, and connects them to philosophical concepts, intertwining decolonial issues, ancestrality, ecofeminism and immigration. Her artistic practice is an invitation to reflect on our relationship to water, nature, and the societal issues that affect us all. 

Website: www.marcellafranca.art

Instagram: @marcellafranca.arts 

Space in the workshop is limited, reserve your spot here!