Class Overview: Join Wild Soma as we explore embodied practices that centre creativity, connection and care. These sessions offer practices to performing artists, supporting and nurturing a fully embodied creative and responsive self. We will explore together across generations and diversity of practices, sharing intentional time and space, extending possibilities for learning from each other through being together in movement, in embodied voicework, and in dialogue. 

About Wild Soma: Wild Soma was formed in 2021 to support the research and practice of embodiment as a world making process. Core members Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger, Andrea Nann and Roula Said are established dance artists, performance makers, movement facilitators and community mobilizers. Their shared interest in embodiment practice as a world-making proposal is the basis of their collaboration. Interested in animating the self-in-the-world relationship, Wild Soma is a platform to research, design, prototype and experiment with interventions that centre new ways of being through aesthetic embodied participatory experience. Concerned with the state of climate emergency and inspired by this time of important social change and growing interconnection, Wild Soma aims to recast the body as self, in specific relationships to the social, cultural, temporal and planetary ecosystems we live within. By illuminating a sense of interconnectedness within the living world, Wild Soma transforms aesthetic processes into a collective world-making practice. Wild Soma’s advisory circle includes Philip Davis, Danielle Denichaud, and Michelle Silagy.