Oracular Practice

Classes at Siobhan Davies Studios

Sundays 3.30-5pm

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“I want to open all the windows and all of the doors”

Loose studies in somatic technologies and dance as oracular practice 

My facilitation practice utilises the research I do in and through performance and shares these practices with intention to open up space to flow, listen to and observe our selves in chaos, in flux, in overwhelm, in stagnancy, as unfolding oracular text, without judgement.

I move between languages of various technologies to summon dimensional visions of presence and vibration (being) that is the material we work with. 

Working is tuning, listening, opening when we think there is nothing more to let move, and moving with conflict, paradox, complexity, simultaneity. 

Listening in to our sensory capacities for noticing and feeling our selves and our environment - always in relation. I work with visions, reactions, sensation, dreams, discomfort, memory, and how these can be located in our bodies. 

Using the somatic technology of dancing as an oracular device of unsettling and reading what surfaces, choreography as the constructing of machines or divining tools for this data.

Harnessing the choreographic as a social organising principle, this work invites self-reflection through each person exposing themselves to their own unprepared, unanticipated content. A space for bodies to be considered as constantly mutating ecosystems and internal landscapes, constellations unfolding as maps on which it is possible to read back ourselves and, through processes of choreographic decomposition, receive messages from these oracles.

The strategies I bring are simple invitations to movement of thought/voice/body. Often two points of relation/stimulation are offered and, in making connection, each person enters a process of triangulation or communion with self, in reflection, in wandering, in devotion.

My artistic practice involves creating the conditions to invoke states of wide focus and openness to the energetics and details of environment. It can seem like trance or meditation. I invite my body in performance to become medium, channel, portal. 

These workshops can be intimate and personal work, simultaneously loud and quiet and sometimes disturbing in its giving permission to vagueness not existing in opposition to clarity, holding the mundane as revelatory, looking to sensory information as guide and cultivating psychic potential.