HEALING PLAY [Pride mesiac]

Healing Play
Prioritizing improvisation and collaboration we will play in the forests of dancing and healing.
There are ancient grandmother trees there.
There are baby sprouts of new life growing.
There is death and transformation, fire and wind.
This daily laboratory will welcome your curiosity and concerns. What’s up? What inspires you or prevents you from dancing? What activates or impedes your healing potential? How can art and care be realized as a single project or path within the practices of your life? Yes we’ll engage, both in our experimental play and in our embodied conversations, with land, ancestors, power, consent, pleasure, belonging, and community. Practices will include fake healing, anti-fascist partner dancing, spontaneous writing, heart circle, and connecting through objects.
Hennessy makes live performances responding to political crises, while centering queer bodies and ideas. His work began in the queeruptions of the late 1980’s responding to the AIDS crisis, and he is widely recognized as an innovator of the genre of queer performance. Deeply rooted in LGBTQ communities and intersectional struggle, Hennessy activates art as a tool to both transform oppressive cultures and express queer, antiracist, and optimistic cultures.
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. His work has been presented by Impulstanz/Vienna, Black Box/Oslo, VAC Foundation/Moscow, Homo Novus/Riga, SNDO/Amsterdam, Ponderosa/Germany, Movement Research/NYC, SFMOMA, NYLA, PICA/Portland, Kampnagel/Hamburg, and CORE/Atlanta. In San Francisco Hennessy directs Circo Zero, co-founded the culture spaces 848 and CounterPulse, and was a member of Sara Mann’s Contraband, 1985-1994.
www.circozero.org

Schedule:
19.7. 17.30 - 21.00
20.7. 17.30 - 21.00
21.7. 10.00 - 13.00

Prize:
Sliding Scale
50 - 80 euros (if you are able to pay more - you will support the activities of the Telocvičňa, accommodation 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

Link for tickets

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.