Authentic Movement for Radical Connection
As social creatures we need to be around each other in order to live life optimally. And, societal norms limit the ways we are patternized in coming together. This workshop aims to support radical connection to oneself and one another, by offering a non-judgmental creative container that cultivates uninhibited access to the body.
Authentic Movement is a physical practice developed by Mary Starks Whitehouse in the mid 20th century, integrating her studies in dance and Jungian psychology into a new embodied inquiry toward allowing “the unconscious to express itself in movement.” For a decade and a half this practice has been central to interdisciplinary artist, dancer, organizer, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, lily gold, who is very excited to share their version of this transformative practice with the community.
Participants will be invited to move their bodies according to impulses that arise from within, at times while being witnessed and at others, in simultaneous exploration with the group.
Sliding scale $5-$25; no one turned away for lack of funds. Please RSVP in advance. If weather requires us to move to an indoor location, we'll notify all registered participants by email.
lily also leads a monthly Authentic Movement series at Bushel.
lily gold (she/they) is a white, queer, chronically ill, fourth-generation new yorker of the anti-zionist jewish diaspora, making dance and interdisciplinary art. using improvisatory methods to generate movement, text and song—the material collides, tears, weaves and unravels into performance. absurdly specific and playful with mess, gold’s work attempts to answer probing questions and embraces contradictory truths with reverent irreverence. perhaps maximal in subtle disguise, their dances are dynamic worlds within which the audience is tossed a raft to float the rivers of their emotion.
gold’s choreographic and visual work has been presented by Danspace Project, First Street Gallery, MoMA/Judson Memorial Church, and Movement Research, among others. She has been an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, AUNTS, ZIL Cultural Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, CEC ArtsLink, Bushel Collective, Pillow Fort Arts, and a spacegrant recipient at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. as a performer she has collaborated with Faye Driscoll, devynn emory, Andrea Geyer, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Tere O’Connor, Vicky Shick, and Walter Dundervill, among others.
gold is a trauma-informed somatic therapist, officiant, witch and organizer—accountable to larger liberatory movements within and beyond creative practice. they live among occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Walton, NY, and remain in relationship with their community and performance home in NYC.