What can the Jamaican Dancehall Queens teach us about our relationship with our bodies — and our right to be the powerful women that we are?

Booty shaking asks us to reinhabit our pelvises. Stomping the ground invites us to be loud. Demanding hand gestures say: This is what I want.

Embodying our sensuality calls for safety and self-love. Through dance and somatic sexuality, we explore how our bodies respond as we step into the footsteps of Jamaican women.

Adding a rope between two dancing bodies reveals the inescapable interdependence in relationships.
Being bound together forces the dancers to non-verbally negotiate, collaborate, exploit, give, and take.
The rope exposes the hidden.

How do we respond to the unpredictable nature of play fighting and life?
Fighting asks us to stay alert and responsive.
It becomes a practice of embodied listening, attunement, and presence —
a pathway into a fully awake state of aliveness.

Within your body, an ancient organism is co-living inside of you. With it’s billions and billions of neurons, it forms a decentralized intelligence with eyes in every corner of your body.

- And while you might be asleep, under anesthesia, or simply unaware, it is awake every millisecond of your life — seeing and remembering what happens inside and around you, from womb to grave.

What can the nature around us teach about our nature within?

Our inner landscapes are as wild and independently behaving as weather, ocean, and the volcanoes outside our bodies.

What happens when the hierarchies shift,
and we begin to meet our inner and outer nature as allies and co-creators?

“For every force, there is an equal and opposite force.”
— Isaac Newton

Enjoy when physics becomes poetry, as we dance with the physical laws of life — gravity, momentum, friction, spirals, action and reaction.

Contact Improvisation playfully invites us beyond words, into realms of motion, sensation, and imagination.

If your relationships were a dance,
when are you leading, following, or dancing solo?
When are you being carried — or the one who can lean in?

The poetic chaos of falling and bumping into each other is part of the dance —
and somewhere in between, an opportunity might appear to pause, listen, and take a new and unexplored step.

Connect with how the beauty of music has healed the brutal experience of being alive across all cultures and all times.

In circles with no spectators. No performers. Only participants — actively singing, playing, dancing — gathering to process the human experience in community.