This series of workshops, threaded through the year, will ground our explorations in The Axis Syllabus (AS) and Dynamic Partnering Practices. The AS explores details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. The intention is to encourage healthy patterns that support choice and longevity of the body’s tissues while increasing our aptitude to harness and play with momentum and offer resilient support. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice.
This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of ourselves and with other humans in contact improvisation and dynamic partnering practices. We will identify boundaries and limitations as building blocks of resilience. We will explore ourselves and our shared dances as tensegrity structures, cultivating our integrity through tensile resistance. We will investigate the self within interconnected networks and interconnectivity within the self. And we’ll do a whole lot of dancing.
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SCHEDULE
Workshop: 3 – 6pm
Potluck: 6:15 – 7:15pm
Jam: 7:30 – 10pm
3 Class Series
June 8th, 2025
September 14th, 2025
November 9th, 2025
PRICING
Workshop: Financially Strained $30 to Financially Abundant $150
Potluck: Please Bring a Dish to Share! (Or, contribute $10-$15)
Jam: Financially Strained $15 to Financially Abundant $100
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 10 days before the workshop less a $15 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 10 days from the start of the workshop.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
COMMUTERS: We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other jam participants.
Earthdance’s buildings are ADA accessible. More info here.
HOST BIO
Daniel Bear Davis
Daniel Bear Davis (MFA, SEP) is a Movement Educator, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and interdisciplinary performance maker, dedicated to support humans to step into greater aliveness so we can more fully inhabit the details of our lived experience. Daniel has taught Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation, contemplative movement practices, and embodied anatomy throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East. When not teaching groups, he has a private practice as a somatic coach, using tools from Somatic Experiencing® to re-negotiate trauma and support resilient nervous systems. His work is also influenced by cultural somatics – the recognition of the larger web of human and non-human relations in which our somatic experience is situated. Daniel’s work seeks to thread the personal within the larger webs of ancestral lineage, nature, culture, and so much more. Whether teaching movement skills, nervous system regulation, or compositional practices, his intention is to foster informed choice and increased possibility through cultivated curiosity and exploration.
Daniel has worked with veterans and non-veterans in collaboration with Krista DeNio and EchoTheaterSuitcase project, and in San Quentin Prison with The Artistic Ensemble. His original performance, On Contentious Grounds, explored intersections between the experiences of students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and the experiences of oppression expressed in interviews he conducted with Palestinians in the West Bank.
His performance work has been presented at Performaticá (Mexico) in the Imagining Bodies Symposium (Estonia), Dancing in Place Festival (Malaysia), SummerWorks (Canada) the San Francisco International Arts Festial, SoWat Now Contemporary Performance Festival, and Looking Left Festival in California, the SEEDS Festival and E|MERGE Residency at Earthdance Center, MA, and at danceh0l0 in Brooklyn. He has been blessed with opportunities to perform with Guillermo Gomez Peña, Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little, Pipaluk Supernova/Live Art Installations, Felix Ruckert, Kira Kirsch, Erika Tsimbrovsky, Scott Wells, Cid Pearlman, and many other inspiring body/minds. danielbeardavis.com