LOCATION

Quimper Grange
1219 Corona St
Port Townsend, WA 98368

 

 

DATE & TIMES

October 12th
Workshops: 1:30 – 5:00pm
Dance: 7:30 – 10:00

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.

Lindsay

Private client and long-time Cocréa dancer

DATE
Saturday, October 12th
1:30PM – 5:00PM
 
LOCATION
Quimper Grange
1219 Corona Street
Port Townsend WA
 
EXCHANGE
Limited to 30 participants. Note: The May event sold out three weeks before the dance.
$60-100 sliding scale (pre-register, includes evening dance)
$80-120 sliding scale (at the door until cap, includes dance)
Financial challenges? See the sign-up link for info.
 
EVENING DANCE A LA CARTE (open to all)
$7-15 sliding scale
 
FOOTWEAR

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

 

PARKING
The Grange is in a residential area. Parking is limited. Please consider carpooling. Please DO NOT BLOCK driveways. Avoid loud noise outside after 10PM to respect our neighbors.
 
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.
 
QUESTIONS

Deepening Roots. Expanding Possibilities.

 
Wren LaFeet returns to Port Townsend! After his sold-out workshop series with us in May, he’s back to offer three new intermediate-level fusion workshops followed by a sweet evening dance. 
This workshop series is geared towards those who either attended the workshops in May, or those who have enough prior dance experience in any format (fusion, tango, swing, ballroom, modern, etc.) to be comfortable in an intermediate-level fusion class. Those who consider themselves still to be beginners, but who have a strong sense of dance frame and lead/follow, are also welcome. Not sure if the workshops are a good fit for you? Drop us a line at info@fusioninclusion.org and we will help. 
 

WORKSHOP IS LIMITED TO 40 PEOPLE!

 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS & SCHEDULE
1:30PM Slowing Down: Deep Rhythmic Embodiment
When musicians learn a complex piece of music, they begin practicing at a much slower speed than the piece will ultimately be played at. Slowing down, turning our curiosity and attention to the intricacies of rhythm, syncopation and meter, and playing with how to translate rhythm into our whole bodies so it becomes second nature, is the intention here.
 
2:40PM 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. 
 
3:50PM Oh, You Fancy? Turns, Stalls, and Flourishes

Moving from this higher awareness of specificity, musicality and discernment in our movements, we can introduce specific and more complex movements that bring that “wow” factor to our dances. This will essentially be a musicality class that tunes us into a deeper listening and fortifies our move vocabulary.  

 

5:00 – 7:30 Dinner break (on your own)

 

7:30PM-10:00PM Fusion and Microfusion Dance with multiple DJs (open to the public)
This day of classes is meant to provide a safer space to experiment with bringing your fusion dancing to the next level. With 24 years of experience in partner dancing, and a lifetime background in theater, Wren calls his teaching style, “facilitainment”. “Facil” in Spanish means easy. So combined with the word attainment, he loves to make attaining advancement and understanding both easy and fun. 
 
 
ABOUT WREN LAFEET
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. 
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.