GOING SOLO TOGETHER INFORMATION SESSION

This workshop is for people with experience of improvisation and practices that centre on ‘unknowing’ and emergent processes.

This workshop focuses on the Heart. An incredible organ with which we perceive and feel our way through life.The heart has direct connection with the brain, and vice versa, picking up information about all manner of things visible and invisible.

Countless generations, cultures, and civilisations have always had curiosity towards the heart for its anatomic and physiologic secrets, humans have always reflected about the heart as a crossroads, a place of knowings, longings, pains and pleasures.

The electromagnetic field of the heart we know can significantly affect those around us..... this is the most poetic of organs

The ancient Greeks had this cardio-centric view of the body and the heart was the centre of our being, it was the place that the soul moved through

Now at this time in our culture with such advances in technology. We are able to name and ‘know’ a great deal about the world around us, and how we are made... But there is this other knowing, that perhaps bypasses our reasoned selves and rises up from someplace unknown within us.

We will spend the morning arriving into our sensing selves through simple scores ( instructions ) that guide us into noticing different channels of attention as they light up through movement. We will move between moving, writing and making.Reflecting on themes of the heart that rise up through our dancing.

This workshop is suitable to for those with some experience in improvisation and who are curious about learning from their own experience.

Cai Tomos is Independent Dance artist, Art Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Cranial Sacral Therapy Student. He has worked both nationally and internationally as a dancer and maker. He lives in Rural Mid Wales. His practice spans from dancing and making, to facilitating arts and health work with adults both in hospitals and in theatre settings. He runs an Elders Performance Company in Wales and offers workshops in the UK and abroad. He works as an artist in Chelsea and Westminster hospital and for Entelechy arts as an independent artist. Improvisational practices are at the heart of his work supporting people to develop and discover their own movement language and vocabulary.

www.caiotomos.com