Writing from the Body
A day-long retreat with Joe Goode
Event Details:
Saturday December 7th
Time: 10-3pm
Cost: $175
Location: Joe Goode Annex
“In an unfeeling world, to feel something, indeed to craft something out of “felt” materials could be an act of redemption” ~ Joe Goode
Please join us for a retreat with Joe Goode. Participants will be guided through gentle movement and embodied writing practices designed to reacquaint the mind with the intuitive, sensitive, perceptive body.
Joe Goode’s signature creative process cultivates source material that emerges from the simple truth of bodily sensation. Participants are invited into the lush territory of embodied action, to bring the “felt experience” into language. We will move alone and together, not to discover choreographic techniques (although this can be a happy byproduct) but to learn how differently we perceive the world when we listen to our bodies.
There is no dance or performance background necessary. Just bring your curiosity and something to write on.
Workshop will include:
- Movement for Humans- exploring the healing pleasure of simple mobility
- Writing from the Body- facilitated writing sessions that draw on what the body knows
- Metta practice- generate empathy through movement, voice, touch, and collaborative action
- The power of Making- after generating textual and physical material, we will then place them together to create a kind of altar, a place of recognition of the life we are experiencing in this present moment.
I trust you, body. To guide me. To help me through difficult times, as you have always done. ~ Joe Goode
Joe Goode
Artistic Director/Choreographer
Joe Goode is a choreographer, writer, and director widely known as an innovator in the field of dance for his willingness to collide movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and the United States Artists Glover Fellowship in 2008. In 2006 Goode directed the opera Transformations for the San Francisco Opera Center. His play Body Familiar, commissioned by the Magic Theatre in 2003, was met with critical acclaim.
The Joe Goode Performance Group, formed in 1986, tours regularly throughout the U.S., and has toured internationally to Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Goode is known as a master teacher; his summer workshops in “felt performance” attract participants from around the world, and the company’s teaching residencies on tour are hugely popular. He is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
Goode’s performance-installation works have been commissioned by the Fowler Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, Krannert Art Museum, the Capp Street Project, the M.H. de Young Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His dance theater work has been commissioned by Pennsylvania Ballet, Zenon Dance Company, AXIS Dance Company and Dance Alloy Theater among others. Goode and his work have been recognized by numerous awards for excellence including the American Council on the Arts, the New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie), and Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (Izzies).