Weirding:  a movement and praxis workshop for all 

Saturday September 28th 1-5pm, sliding scale $25-65

The etymology of “weird” is from the Old English wyrd, “having the power to control fate” or “that which comes.” It also has origins in the Germanic root wer, “to turn, to bend.” In this workshop we play with a practice(s) of "weirding" to attend to and effect that which comes, to bend fate. We tend possibilities for creative resistance and restoration. We do-think and talk-think and read-think (a little) together. I draw on meditation, movement, and performance practices and written work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Erin Manning, and Valentina Desideri & Stefano Harney in braiding the threads of this time together.

No dance experience is necessary to participate. Wear comfortable clothing and bring an object or two from home or the outdoors that could be incorporated into our practice (don't think too hard about what that might mean...)

Hana van der Kolk is a queer dancer, artist, and ritual, learning, and celebration facilitator living on unceded Mohican, Mohawk, and Haudenosaunee lands (Hudson Valley, New York). They create performances, organize events, design and lead workshops, offer one-on-one counseling & sex and gender expansion work, write, and make videos, gifts, talismans, and environments for (re)enchantment. They see their work—which is always collaborative—as a conduit for knowing/unknowing what is here and now, for remembering and practicing intimacy at many proximities. Hana has worked internationally as a teacher and facilitator, performer, and artist. They completed an MFA in Dance from UCLA and a practice-based PhD in Art at RPI, where their dissertation focused on queer friendship and creative, embodied technologies for re-enchantment and recovery from the delusion of separateness.