Site-specific Contact With Lasqueti–
Join Bronwyn Preece for 3 full days of earthBODYment, arriving Thursday, July30 dinner and leaving Monday, Aug3 after breakfast. $250 includes workshop, all meals, camping, transportation on Lasqueti.
earthBODYment is site-specific deep improvisation: an eco-somatic and arts-based process of participatory, exploratory engagement and orientation towards performance signified by the embodiment of reciprocal presence. The intersection of expression and ecology, movement and mindfulness, the creative tuning of sensuous experience with other-than-human world, earthBODYment is the improvisational exploration of our deep connections- our contact- with our enveloping world.
earthBODYment incorporates solo and whole group movement, sound, language, collaborative writing and painting practices and other creative manifestations of presence and resonance with the places we find ourselves in.
earthBODYment was inspired by Bronwyn’s extensive work in and as a teacher of Action Theater for more than 15years, her work ith Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy (the Work that Reconnects), and her own explorations with embodied and expressive activism and a host of other movement and arts based modalities.
“I am full of gratitude for the other day. You have such a beautiful ability to give space, and to offer ample space for us to be. How powerful to speak to us about our choices being perfect. I have only ever rarely seen that degree of honouring our nature and potential in any tradition. You are a gem and a revolutionary and inspiring leader.”
~ Mariko Ihara, earthBODYment participant
“Bronwyn’s workshops/exercises were raw and unconventional; engaging all aspects of our being in spawning individual/collective expression. It gave me a shiver of excitement each time before the class as I really didn’t know what to expect. I love those scary unknown places and the challenges proposed because there is no choice but to show up! Bronwyn skillfully directs and facilitates the work while stepping aside to allow participants to dive into the depth of their own experiences.”
-Thomas Loh, Nelson, earthBODYment participant (from 2014 Leviathan intensive)
Bronwyn PreeceBronwyn Preece is a site-specific, improvisational performer, author and dabbling visual artist. She is currently pursuing her PhD (using improvisation as her methodology) and holds an MA and BFA in Applied Theatre. She is the pioneer of earthBODYment and became Canada’s first certified teacher of Action Theater. She is the author of ‘In the Spirit of Homebirth’ (2015), ‘Gulf Islands Alphabet’ (2012), and of the forthcoming ‘Off-The-Grid Kid’, among other publications. All of Bronwyn’s work focuses on connection to place and interdependence — interrogating the dichotomies between culture and nature, self and environment. She has performed at World Stage Design, facilitates workshops internationally and works with communities and within classrooms to engage students with timely issues through the arts. She served two terms in local politics as the youngest woman ever elected to her post with the Islands Trust, the municipal level government for the Gulf Islands of BC(2002-2008). Bronwyn can also be frequently spotted frolicking with the kale in her garden, fermenting batches of sauerkraut and kombucha, wildcrafting nettles from the woods or shamelessly hugging trees.
Learn more about Bronwyn at www.bronwynpreece.com
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