Rough Man’s Playground: The Dress Up Box
Movement Workshop, Sliding scale tickets from $10-$30 , NOTAFLOF
How can fantastical play open possibilities for living in a sensing body?
Through conversation, movement and collaborative collage, this workshop explores the role of childhood dress-up as a world-building strategy and revists the sensory experience of getting lost in an divinely imaginary space.
Together, we research:
What imaginary worlds did you build as a child?
What does it feel like to move within those worlds today?
How can you manifest those worlds alongside others, weaving new playscapes which invigorate childhood fantasies and offer new ways to navigate our adult worlds?
We will skip between chatting, dancing, collaging and resting to crawl through openings in every question. The workshop includes an optional co-creation of a dance phrase and a “free play” time where solo play, movement, conversation and altar-building are all welcome and encouraged.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/7P6WuWfubLcY37sFA
ARTIST BIOS:
Micah Lockman-Fine is a designer, researcher and artist. He designs progressive speculative futures using installation, curation, performance, runway, garments, biodesign, games and technology. Including for his brand Stoop Kids, he has co-curated or featured work at the MOMA BioDesign Summit, Schuylkill Center, Numinous Mag Show, IntrospectiveInnovations NYFW, William Way Galleries and Clay Studio, among others. He is currently receiving a Master of Science in Design Research.
Lu Donovan is a dance maker whose work is grounded in an improvisational practice that seeks imaginative ways of relating to one’s own body in the context of our entropic world. His work prioritizes pleasure and researches strategies of queer-ing, or, widening options for how something can exist, be used, be seen, and be held. Lu has produced, directed, and facilitated dance performances and workshops in Philadelphia since 2018.
Lockman-Fine and Donovan co-directed Dream Sweet, Rough Man for the 2023 Fringe and Cannonball Festivals. Rough Man’s Playground, the second iteration of this research, is supported by the Leeway Art and Change Grant.