DanceLab | SomaSpace | PDX

Monday Evenings 5:45-7pm (doors open at 5:30 for your warm-up)

April 29th

May 6th, 13th, 20th

June 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th

July 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th

SomaSpace 4050 NE Broadway Portland, OR 97232

DanceLab Saturday Morning Pop-UP! | CCFJ | PDX

Saturday Mornings 11am-12:30pm

May 4th, 11th, 18th

Community Church for Joy 8051 SE 16th Ave, Portland, OR 97202

**this dancing time & place is typically facilitated by my dear colleague, Vincent, who has offered humble guidance throughout my personal practice for many years. You might check out his Saturday morning class! Even when the lab is not popping up, I will be dancing there. Same time, same space.

Contact me with questions!

No Advance Registration | $10-$20 sliding scales | Pay with cash or Venmo at the door when you arrive | Join one lab or as many as you like

This is a self-guided dance event combined with music, experiential prompts, and physio- movement cues. The choreography will be the form of your lived experience that moves through the body, mind, and self in communion with space and others.

DanceLab is an experience that features a physio-script to guide our choices for movement and mindfulness in holistic form | anatomical process | consciousness.

Physio-script: a scientific idea about the body that can be applied to creativity in stillness and motion~

The purpose of DanceLab is to provide a welcoming container for all those who thrive with dance as a personal ritual and routine. All genres of somatic practice, previous dance experience, and intentions for dancing are welcomed with reverence and joy.

The script will be offered as a brief section of verbal facilitation. Most of each lab will include self-directed movement to music with opportunity to explore and express individual free will in a dancing practice.

Experience Level:

People who enjoy dancing: all ages & abilities, regardless of identity or circumstance. No previous dance/movement experience is necessary. You are welcome to join by sitting, stillness, or presence.

What to bring:

Wear comfortable clothing for movement + you. Barefoot dancing is strongly encouraged. Socks/indoor shoes are more than welcome!

You might want your water bottle | filtered water provided

Lab Fees:

No Advance Registration | $10-$20 sliding scales | Pay with cash or Venmo at the door when you arrive | Join one lab or as many as you like

We all have a physical form of biochemical matter regardless of identity | ability | lineage

The multiverse of personhood is a field for discovery | imagination | coherence | love

The mind-body complex is a mechanism for input | response | healing | evolution | light

We are the natural world as a resonant biological process in flux | motion | sensuality