For this workshop I will offer an embodied way of working that continually asks questions without seeking answers or solutions through decolonizing and decomposing our expectation of dance making, vocal expression and choreography. What is dance composition and dance (de)composition? How can ecological systems such as compost or the whale fall offer an example of (de)composition that give way to radical creative processes? What kinds of rebellion can the body and the voice enact through play and chance encounters? What does it mean to surprise oneself while dancing, singing, choreographing? What does it mean to (de)compose expectations for performance? What kinds of choreographies show up in everyday life? What choreographies liberate, what choreographies dominate, and how can these binaries be challenged, changed, decolonized, and (de)composed? This method has been developed through my ongoing art/life/movement project, Improvising While Black or IWB which came to be after my experience of being racially profiled when driving while black. IWB invites lived experience, personal story, ancestral healing and radical experimentation into our movement practices.

All are welcome. Let's catch the spirit together! ~mayfield