CONNECT
&
COMMUNE

PLAYSHOP AND COCRÉA DANCE

 

LOCATION

Studio Z Ashland
Ashland, OR

 

 

DATE & TIMES

FRIDAY, JULY 24TH
6:00 – 9:00PM

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.

Lindsay

Private client and long-time Cocréa dancer

DATE
FRIDAY, JULY 24TH
6:00-9:00PM
 
LOCATION

Studio Z Ashland

280 E Hersey St Ste 1
Ashland, OR 97520

 

EXCHANGE

Limited to 30 participants.

 

$25-$50 sliding scale (pre-register)
$35-$80 sliding scale (at the door)

Financial challenges? See the sign-up link for info.
 
FOOTWEAR

Please avoid street shoes. Dance or other non-scuffing shoes are appropriate. 

 
WHAT TO BRING

Some suggestions include water, snacks, gum or mints, and layers to wear.

Please avoid strong perfumes or colognes.


PLEASE ASK THE INSTRUCTOR PRIOR TO RECORDING ANY VIDEO AT THIS EVENT.

A Wholistic Fusion

Harnessing the Power of Presence in Co-Created Movement.

Cocréa is Collaborative, Organic Communication, 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 sensuousness to their dance experience
  • Pumped to up their listening and improvisational prowess by at least 2x
No partner necessary.
Come with your beloved, a friend, or solo. All will be invited to dance with each other, and you are welcome to not change partners as well.
 
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
  • Accessing Intuitive Movement and Flow
  • Next Level Musicality
Building on the foundational elements of social partner dance technique 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.
 

SCHEDULE

6-6:45PM Intro to Mindful Partner Dance
With its origins in the Fusion partner dance movement, and giving huge appreciation to Blues, Swing, Hip-Hop and other resistance dances that have massively shaped fusion, the Cocréa practice is to meet one another where we are and engage in an explorative movement dialogue while paying attention, with intention, non-judgmentally. As we hone this dynamic, kinetic toolbox, we emphasize connection, communication and creative expression between two humans within a community of others, and endeavor to make ourselves a safe space for others to express and interact with. Emphasis on consent, breath to support energetic containment and cultivating presence as perhaps the pleasure we are truly seeking.
 
6:45-7:45PM Fine Attunement: Partner as an Extension of Your Body Building on the detailed rhythmic work from the first session, we’ll bring that same level of refinement to our connection technique. Bringing a high degree of awareness to the movements of the body and how they impact our partner, we’ll explore and refine tone and tone ramping, the continuum of connection that happens before we physically touch, and the vast degree of subtle variability that can occur thereafter. 
7:45-9:00PM CommuniYum CommuniYum is an intentionally held and facilitated partner dance focused journey. Crafted using the six lines of the I Ching hexagram, the CommuniYum arc is intended to inspire and support us integrating higher frequencies for embodying a greater sense of communion with life. Listening and responding authentically to what is emergent within the group, Wren guides a somatic relational movement experience grounded in presence, strength, intimacy and freedom as informed by the wisdom of the Gene Keys. Weaving our unique expressions by attuning to the collective, focus and harmonize our embodied awareness through this connected, honest and powerful practice for transforming how we connect in community.
Our time together will be influenced by the 56th and the 31st Gene Keys.
56: Divine Indulgence. Moving from the Shadow of Distraction to the Siddhi of Intoxication through the transformational path of Enrichment
and
31: Sounding Your Truth. Moving from the Shadow of Arrogance to the Siddhi of Humility through the transformational path of Leadership
It’s going to be a rich one friends!
Wren LaFeet

Wren LaFeet

Facilitator • Cocréa Director and Co-Founder

 

Wren is an embodiment guide intent on learning how to be in right-relationship as a 21st century human so he can best serve life. A trained dancer and theater worker, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, watersheds, neuroscience and psychology that support interpersonal connection and positive change. In 2013, Wren co-founded Cocréa with Antje Schäfer as a vehicle for exploring mindful, consent based relational practice through movement and dance.

Channeling this intelligence, he creates brave spaces for humans struggling with disconnection and longing for a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves through the body. Wren’s own many years of seeking have led him through theater and filmmaking, circus, nomadism, psychedelic-informed music culture, yoga, consent culture, decolonization work, permaculture and most presently, addiction recovery counseling and breathwork practice. Along his path, nature, community, relationship, humor, movement and a sense of belonging to something far larger and more unknowable than this seemingly separate self are the consistent threads with which Wren braids meaning and purpose into life.

He is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. Wren is currently in transition from living on the unceded lands of the Awaswas and Amun Mutsen peoples (Santa Cruz, CA) to the traditional unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, BC).

He has been dancing since 1998 and began performing on stage when he was 6 years old. He recently completed working with Embodied Recovery as a substance use disorder counselor in Los Gatos, CA. 

Connect & Commune | Ashland

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PAYMENT OPTIONS

Pre-Sale Sliding Scale 
$25-$50

At the Door Sliding Scale
$35-$80

We try to make our smaller offerings as accessible as possible. 

If you need greater financial assistance to be able to attend, please don’t hesitate to reach out and we will work it out. 

Here’s to living in the better world we know is possible.