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Writing for scenario/writing for the love of dancing
Joe Goode Annex, SF

Fridays 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, and 3/21, 2025, 10:30AM-12:30PM
Price: $25-50 sliding scale per class

Writing for the love of it - a journal, a view, a sideways walking, portals and frames, a quadrant as a mountain climb. Exploring writing and perception as dancers, we venture into the cave of dreaming out into opens fields. We then launch our minds in the sky.

Process
Warm up the body - Chi Cultivation, scramble technique for the day.

Tools needed
Pen, pencil paper

practice as performance+
Joe Goode Annex, SF

March 28, 29, 30, 2025 10:30am-1pm
Price: $75-150 sliding scale, $30-60 drop in

Participants train the mind and body to see through the eye of the heart. They listen to the body as our guide and progress through the inner and outer touchstones of breaking up patterns, until they hold a high frequency, knowing where they are, what they are doing and are aware of everything else in the room. The idea of choice and trusting the body seem to be different bedfellows. They are exquisite partners in the path of freedom.

Participants will dance a lot, sweat, laugh, track, use your peripheral vision, reset and set again and fill up your imagination muscles till you relax. It is fun.

Becoming an orchestra of one’s physical, energetic/emotional and spiritual body, any form of dance can be mixed and applied to this practice. Sometimes it can be the most interesting, when one has no prior training in a particular form. Tracking space and geometry will be added internally and externally to the score to increase sensitivity as well as creating instant choices and choreographic momentum.

Spring contact jam with bad goat dance
downtown la and CSU long beach

April 18-20, 2025

Join me at the Spring Contact Jam April 18-20, 2025, Pre-Jam Deep Dive with me in downtown LA and intensives at the CSU Long Beach Campus.

Dancing from the eye of the heart / retreat
”Fool’s Valley,” portugal

May 29-June 3, 2025

Come to Portugal to dance with me two sessions a day plus jamming, labbing, a qi session on the beach, and chances to show your works in progress. This beautiful retreat is located in Sapataria, 20 minutes from Ericeira, the finest surfing spot in Europe.

Basic price includes: workshop fee, 3 vegan/vegetarian meals per day, accommodation in your own ten/van/hammock, access to sauna, five night stay with extra nights possible to book

Early bird special through March 21: 395-695€
Regular cost: 470-770€

For registration, questions, more information, or other room options, contact Franca at via email at chromasoma.pt@gmail.com or via Telegram @Francalejandra

The basics
EDEN Studios, berlin, germany

June 16-19, 2025 10AM-1PM
Price: 160-225€
Limited drop ins available for 45€/day

Explore my introductory practices which are designed to develop technical skill and personal inquiry as a conversation through improvisational methods that I have been developing throughout my career. The research is always evolving. You are welcome.

During the 4 days, we will dive deeply into puzzles and practices. Each day will include Chi Cultivation - A series of movement and breath exercises that articulate the spine, work the muscles, engage the systems and raise your physical energy and your consciousness. It is accumulative, creating long term strength and vitality. You become more aware, have more control, and more joy.

Interested in work exchange? Email saramannworkshop@gmail.com for more information

Movement artisans
Lake studios, friedrichshagen, berlin, germany

June 23-28, 2025

Join me alongside teachers Kira Kirsch, Antoine Ragot, and Nina Wehnert for the Movement Artisans summer residency at Lake Studios outside of Berlin!