Tending and Tuning
Tending: taking care of our own bodies and others.
Tuning: finding diverse kinds of commonness with others, and noticing the vibrancy of the places we inhabit.
For Tending and Tuning, Linehan and Helland draw upon 15+ years of shared performance experience, reflecting and elaborating upon diverse dance scores and physical practices.
Favorite pre-performance rituals become a playground for cultivating both subtle and robust forms of attention and engagement with ourselves and our surroundings, as we connect with our immediate environment to inspire new ways of moving and being. From theater to gallery and beyond, we explore performance as a hybrid medium to discover the edges of bodily consciousness, shared physical presence, and sense of place. We return to the fundamentals of the body in motion: breath, circularity, vibration, and waves of catharsis.
With an eye on longevity and vitality, we work to embody radical resiliency through creative care-taking and otherworldly movement-based adventures.
Anyone can participate, as long as you are curious and willing to move the body. Whether you have danced before or not, whether you are an artist, an amateur or a professional dancer, whatever your physical abilities are, you are very welcome to join this workshop.
December 2020
January 2021
January 2022
June 2022
November 2022
July 2023
February 2024
With and by Daniel Linehan and Michael Helland
