Movement, Memory, and the Unconscious Resource Workshop

Description

The body is always listening, recording and computing. This movement-based class will take place over three three sessions at the School for Poetic Computation. We will focus on the body's innate ability to absorb information consciously through cognitive practice, and unconsciously through physical action and proprioception. We will look closely at how we learn with our bodies and what gets in the way. We will consider how creative bodily impulses are expressed and suppressed. Lead by movement teacher, performer, and writer Cori Kresge, this class will cultivate practices that attempt to override the ego constructs that obstruct the innate methods by which the body records and processes information. This allows for more physical efficiency, spontaneity, enjoyment, and creativity. Cori Kresge will collaborate with dancer Cori Olinghouse, SFPC cofounder Taeyoon Choi and Teaching Assistant Maya Man to lead explorations in movement (codes) and body (systems). Through movement activities and presentations, students will examine and express their ideas about the Body, Movement and the Unconscious Resource working collaboratively and individually toward the course objectives.