DANCING AS POLITICAL HEALING

Eva Priečková/False Move together with Telocvičňa - Residential Center for Dance bring you an extraordinary encounter with movement queer artist, activist and fighter for LGBTQ+ rights in San Francisco and beyond, Keith Hennessy

KEITH HENNESSY - DANCING AS POLITICAL HEALING
Prioritizing improvisation and collaboration, we will playfully research the potential for experimental dance and improvisation practices to contribute to political healing. If the harm or trauma is political (structural, legal, normative), the healing cannot focus only on the personal? I welcome your curiosity and concerns. What inspires you or prevents you from dancing and making performances, especially with others? What activates or impedes your healing potential? How is your body responding to new wars, precarity, and embodied traumas? How can dancing be activated as anti-capitalism, as a new ethics of relationship, pleasure, and shared power? I will invite the prophetic ancestors Gustav Landauer and Octavia Butler into the studio to renew our dancing. Also we will explore the idea of a “war against the imagination.” (Diane DiPrima, Subcommandante Marcos…) Depending on interest, we will integrate performance practices.

BIO:
Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD, is a frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of dance, performance, activism, affordable housing, gay sexuality, and teaching. Raised in Canada on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek lands, living in San Francisco in Ramaytush Ohlone territory since 1982, Keith tours internationally. Hennessy’s work is interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist, queer-feminist, and decolonial movements. With a focus on the poetics and politics of relationship, Keith prioritizes collaborations across lines of identity, race, and power. Collaborations include Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sarah Crowell, Snowflake Towers, Jassem Hindi, Meg Stuart, And Peaches. www.circozero.org

Schedule:
31.7. 2025: 17.30 - 20.30
01.08.2025: 17.30 - 20.30
02.08.2025: 17.30 - 20.30

Prize:
Sliding Scale: 50 - 80 euros (if you are able to pay more - you will support the activities of the Telocvičňa, fee for Keith and the production/coordination of the workshop - thank you) If the price is too high for you for any reason, please feel free to contact me at eva.prieckova@gmail.com 
One day: 25 euros