An online sharing hosted by Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon, as part of the Percolate Programme.
Freedom School: Apocalyptic Doing/Making is a practice-sharing space, an embodied encounter, and a collaborative laboratory for movement artists of colour.
Taking place over the course of one weekend, Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon (Collective Movement Practice for People of Colour) will gather 6 artists to consider the question of doing/making in apocalyptic times amidst ongoing social, political and climate crises.
We ask:
- What modes of being, moving and practicing together do we need?
- What relationships can we form in and through movement against interlocking systems of oppression? What is collective transformation?
- What is collective liberation?
Inviting both kinetic confluences and collisions amongst artists, the gathering will culminate in a public sharing online. This event is open to all in the format of a conversation, a workshop, and a performance offering reflection on the process of doing/making.
ACCESS
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Artists
Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon
Functional Rituals / Dance Is a Weapon is a London-based movement collective for and by people of colour. Our aims are threefold: to develop a framework of practice that fosters a movement community otherwise not readily available in traditional dance institutions and contexts; to investigate, through dance, the social, political and historical conditions of our practice as well as the meanings and stakes of building a movement for and by dance artists of colour; and lastly, to explore collective movement practice as a tool for community organising toward social transformation.