FleshVoice & Vessel: Embodiment Practices for Moving with the Unseen (w/Lea Fulton & Nico Wolf)
In this 3 hour workshop we journey together towards the unknown through embodiment practices, vocalization, oracular visioning and liminal arts practices. All genders and levels of experience are invited, just bring your curiosity and care. The last 30 minutes of the workshop will include a performance ritual in which you are invited to process the work through the simple act of resting and of being-with.
Our bodies are the fertile ground of ancestral seeds, half-remembered childhoods, undigested foods of a rotting system, chambered grievances and survival parties. As movement researchers, we have elegant tools to engage with polyphonic listening.
How can we inhabit tran(ce)formation between the worlds? We invite movement as ritual medicine - a cleansing practice, solo performance and group festivity in the attempt to meet ourselves, our ancestors and the more-than-human world.
We engage with Qi Gong and Body-Mind Centering inspired organ and sounding work to uncover stored emotions, memories, and landscapes of both the personal and collective realms. Scaffolded by grounding practices from somatic movement therapy, we create a safe container of risk together to allow these tenuous stories to rise and ask how they want to be in dialogue with the now.
Solo investigation moves towards collectivity, composing together from the rising of the sensuous.
What can we learn from the unseen realities as we give them fleshvoice and vessel?
Sliding scale donation $45-75
All genders and levels of experience welcome
We gather 4-7pm at the Railyard Performance Center in Santa Fe.
1611 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87505
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS…
LEA FULTON
Lea Fulton is a Berlin based dance artist and researcher living between questions of home and restlessness. These questions situate around being at home in our bodies as a tenuous possibility in the midst of collective and ancestral traumas and questions around home in landscapes that have personal nostalgia but hold a weathered history of colonialism. She researches trance practices, scores of touching and being touched, and the audiences of the more-than-human.
She is currently in the midst of a two year process of collecting research from performing a solo ritual for the more-than-human audiences of Ancestors, Spirit and Elements in different geographies over a nomadic Pandemic existence.
Her own work has been shown at GenezeratheKirche/PioNear, Moos Space, Petersburg Arts Space and Studio 37 in Berlin, AUNTS is Dance in Brooklyn, UpperJay Arts Centre, Dixon Place NYC, and Wonderland New Orleans, She was a company member of Alexandra Beller/Dances, MotleyDance and the site-specific collective The Space we Make. Other performance projects: Andre Uerba/Short Hope, Faye Driscoll, Jillian Pena, David Dorfman, Raja Feather Kelly, Shannon Stewart, Jessie Young,and the work of immersive theater company Third Rail. She was a NYC Center for Faith and Work Artist in Residence in 2017 and a recipient of the Upper Jay Arts Commission in 2020. She is a Dynamic Embodiment practitioner and holds a master’s degree in Movement Therapy and Trauma Studies from the State University of New York.
NICO WOLF
Nico Wolf (Nicole Haciba Burke) is a healing practitioner, trans-disciplinary artist, writer, guide and facilitator of dreamwork, ceremony, embodiment practices, Earth wisdom ways and animistic-based healing work. Her work incites rebellion against the status quo and invites fellow humans toward endless curiosity, courageous authenticity, compassion, and connectivity.
For 10 years, Nico and her husband Ryan stewarded Golden Well Sanctuary - a retreat and regenerative farm in central Vermont devoted to re-potentiating our relationship with the living Earth through cultivating deeper and more meaningful connections between Nature, Spirit, Self and Community. After selling their farm in 2021, the couple moved to the wilds of Brooklyn, NY for a year where they transitioned their work to School of Liminal Arts - a platform to house not only their offerings, but to expand into more creative collaborations. They explored Europe for a year and have recently returned to New Mexico where they plan to settle for a while.
Born in Hong Kong to a Moroccan/Algerian mother and an Irish/Polish/American father, Nico’s work is influenced by a life of multiculturalism, travel, adventure and seeking new perspectives. In addition to nearly two decades in the healing arts, her experiences range from artist and fashion designer to beekeeper, organic farmer and ceremonialist. Nico has undertaken several formal apprenticeships in Japanese medicine and acupressure, Classical Shamanism, and Shamanic practice based on the wisdom of the serpent and the honeybee.
Nico’s diverse background and multi-faceted worldview has inspired her to create spaces that elicit a deep sense of anything-goes-ness, belonging and freedom where the full palate of human expression and creative impulse comes to the surface. Through her group and private sessions, she ushers participants towards the transformation that can occur when finding oneself in unexpected and non-dual realities.