LOCATION

Rattlesnake Studio
Missoula, MT

DATE & TIMES

March 29th – 31st
Friday 7-9pm
Saturday 11am-5pm
Sunday 10am – 1pm

Register Here!

My key take aways from Cocréa are the power of listening, invitation (consent tools), conversational dance, and EMBODIED dance.

Ashé Jordan

Pro Zouk Dancer and workshop participant

I’ll never forget when we first met and danced for hours. That one experience helped heal a lot of brotherhood wounds and I never felt that safe being held by a man.

Apollo

Workshop participant

You are a wizard! You make incredible magic happen between people (individuals and groups). You have x-ray vision right into the heart of what’s needed and then you offer the exact medicine for whatever that thing is and the medicine you share is playful, juicy and sweet, so it’s a joy to receive.

Linsday

Private client and long-time Cocréa dancer

A Wholistic Fusion of Partner Dance
and Mindful Connection

 

Harnessing the power of Presence in co-created movement.
Cocréa is Collaborative, Organic Connection, Revolutionizing Embodied Awareness.

Cocréa engages us in the practice of moving in intuitive, kinetic dialogue with one another to just about any style of music and serves as a means to take your dance to a new level of artistry and authentic connection with others.

This Playshop (same as a workshop but more fun) is for people who are:

  • Excited to explore new ways of dancing with familiar people
  • Curious to discover ways to seamlessly transition between styles
  • Opening to different musical inspiration in their dance
  • Wanting to meet new dancers in their community
  • Ready to welcome a new level of presence and sensuism to their dance experience
  • Pumped to up their listening and improvisational prowess by at least 3x

No partner necessary.

We’ll learn how to wield creative expression with consideration to another body and practice nuanced responsiveness to one another in improvisational, co-created dance.

In this playshop we’ll explore:

  • Core Stability & Balance
  • Lead-Follow Dynamics within Conversational Play
  • Adaptive Listening Techniques
  • New and Versatile Shapes for Expanding Connection
  • Accessing Intuitive Movement and Flow
  • Jedi Level Musicality
 
Building on the foundational elements of social partner dance technique from Blues, Swing and Tango as our common language, Wren’s playful and sincere guidance teaches how to wield creative expression with consideration to another body and practice nuanced responsiveness to one another in improvisational, co-created dance. Cocréa is a gateway to accessing the body’s wisdom to deepening Self and relational attunement. Our intention is to explore form and play creatively from our heart, body and spirit, in full support and appreciation of ourselves and one another.

 

General Schedule

Friday
  • Mindfulness in Fusion Dance Primer – Groove (Rhythm), Frame and the Physics of Connection
Saturday
  • Core Stability & Balance
    • Practices for making you a more resilient, adaptable and forgiving dancer
    • Posture for strength and flexibility
    • Floorcraft practices that expand awareness
  • Lead-Follow Dynamics within Conversational Play
    • Awareness to polarity
    • Releasing attachment to roles and following flow
    • Being danced
  • Adaptive Listening Techniques
    • Attunement practices that translate off the dance floor as well
    • Refining and sensitizing the body’s dance frame to subtle change
    • Reading our partner’s body and seeing vectors
Sunday
  • New and Versatile Shapes for Expanding Connection
  • Accessing Intuitive Movement and Flow
  • Jedi Level Musicality
Wren LaFeet

Wren LaFeet

Facilitator • Cocréa Director and Co-Founder

 

Wren is celebrating the exquisite privilege of getting to dance in partnership for almost 25 years and loves serving humanity as a somatic permissionary. Teaching partner dance internationally as a practice for mindful, authentic living, and enlivening communities by facilitating his signature modality, Cocréa, has been his joy for over a decade. Wren guides humans curious about embodiment towards right relationship by exploring the realms of Self, Earth, Music, Sacred Other, Community and Whole through listening and responding, and inviting, allowing and embracing change. He is a celebrated TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village” and ardent proponent of pioneering a new renaissance through authentic connection and consensual touch. 

 
Wren is an able bodied white male residing in Awaswas Ohlone territory (Santa Cruz, CA). As a non-binary identified, 11th generation American descended most recently from artist and blue collar working class parents, Wren is in a deep reckoning with the numerous and nuanced aspects of self that influence how we navigate interpersonal relationships and cultural identity on the journey into right relationship.
 
Wren promotes dance as an embodied approach to spirituality that spans the chasm between false refuge and celebration through surrender, and as medicinal salve for our modern ailments of disconnection and dislocation.

CREDENTIALS
  • BA in Drama and Dance, University of Washington
  • 12 years experience offering movement and embodiment facilitation professionally
  • Author in the published work, “Reinhabiting the Village”
  • TEDxBend speaker, “Pioneering the New Renaissance through Movement”
  • HeartMath Certified Trauma-Sensitive Practitioner
  • RADT-1 Substance Abuse Recovery Counselor, Embodied Recovery
  • Graduate of Embody More Love program, Do Good Things With Power, Zahava Griss
  • Certified Attunement Therapy practitioner, Tristan Bray
  • Awake at Work Facilitator Training Graduate, Anakha Comen
  • Certified Danyasa Inspired Yoga Instructor, Sofiah Thom
  • Co-Creator of the Momentom Collective Green Residency
  • Featured Presenter: Abundant Leadership Retreats, Embodiment Conference, Body Intelligence Summit, Conscious Dancer Podcast, Beloved Festival (4 years), Oregon Country Fair (5 years), Envision Festival (5 years)