June 16-19, 2025
10am-1pm
Cost: 160-225 Euros for four full day workshop. If there is space, limited drop ins available for 45 Euro/day.
Registration: For more details and to register, please email saramannworkshop@gmail.com, subject line “Summer 2025 Eden.”
LOCATION
EDEN, Studio 150.2
Breite Straße 43
13187 Berlin
The practice of soloing, following, and witnessing from neutral
CHOICE is a precious freedom. We train the mind and body to see through the eye of the heart. We listen to the body as our guide. We will progress through the inner and outer touchstones to break up patterns, until you hold a high frequency, know where you are, what you are doing, and are aware of everything else in the room. The idea of choice and trusting the body seem to be different bedfellows. They are exquisite partners in the path of freedom.
You will dance a lot, sweat, laugh, track, use your peripheral vision, reset and set again, and fill up your imagination muscles until you relax. It is fun.
You are an orchestra of your physical, energetic/emotional, and spiritual body! Any form of dance can be mixed and applied to this practice. Sometimes it is the most interesting with zero training in a dance form.
We add tracking space and geometry internally and externally to the score to increase sensitivity as well as to create instant choices and choreographic momentum.
Class will include some sharing and journaling.
Sara Shelton Mann has created a substantial body of work over a 55-year career as a dancer and choreographer. From 1979 to 1996, She directed the San Francisco-based company Contraband in a series of unique, immersive performances that came to represent a Bay Area performance aesthetic.
As a process choreographer, her work is deeply collaborative and interdisciplinary with a focus on weaving stories, experiences, and provocations into improvisational movement scores with a deep commitment to experimenting with new methods and mediums for presenting dance. Like many artists who have spent a lifetime in the heart of their craft, Mann has come to believe that the exploration of dance forms a vital collective heritage that transcends the artifact of performance. Through this colorful heritage of training and dance, Mann seeks to facilitate the emergence of the next generation of Bay Area dance voices.
My art is of a piece with my healing work and political engagement: it is meant to reveal and transmit the story of our collective humanity—our potential for excellence, our danger—in a time of global change, chaos, and paradigm shift. It is an antidote to fear, doubt, and greed as the face of who we are.