Come play with movement and words in ways you may never have thought to try, and discover how one inspires the other. Surprise yourself with new heights and depths of expression. When we connect words and movement both are transformed. Grounding our awareness in the body gives us a clear and immediate sense of ourselves, of our own meaning and stories. Through connecting movement and words we cultivate a moment-to-moment awareness and find true voice. With stillness and movement we tap into experience, thought, feeling, memory and dream finding words to take from the body to the page and off the page into the body.
· How can moving my body deepen my writing?
· What words are generated from the body?
· What movement is generated from words?
Both experienced and inexperienced movers and writers who want to play are welcome. We will weave improvisational movement practices with spontaneous writing exercises.Wear comfortable clothing and bring your favorite notebook and pen. Please also bring a packed lunch and whatever you like to drink.
Paula is dedicated to nourishing improvisational practice in work and play, and discovering how to be non-habitual in mind and body. Paula’s writing, dancemaking, teaching, coaching and work with horses are all part of the whole cloth of her practice as a movement artist. Her goal is to help people connect to their creativity, to improvisation as a life practice, and to their own delicious experience of embodiment.
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CAROL BURNES, EDM, is an internationally published poet, workshop leader and performer, teaching for over 25 years in the US, UK., Europe and Australia. She also has an international reputation as a performance poet and storyteller; her one-woman show “Suddenly Single” won mention in the London Times. She coaches all ages and stages of writers – from novelists to lawyers, doctors, artists and dissertation writers, from school students and business people, to those who would rather be watching a football game. As a poet with three books to her credit, she believes that the major issues in any kind of writing are magnified in the process of creating poems, and uses poetry as a tool in her teaching. Carol supports students who are lost, stuck or anxious, in their writing through her unique techniques culled from a variety of disciplines.
Carol lives at the end of a dirt road in a converted New England barn. She is available to coach anyone who has a writing or speaking project or desire.