Sleep Activism: A 12-Hour Choreographic Practice Laboratory

Amaara Raheem, with Caitlin Dear and Anabelle Lacroix
Presented by Lucy Guerin Inc

Hello and welcome. Please lay yourself down, and exhale.

Over a 12-hour cycle we’ll be exploring notions of sleep/lessness as a corporeal practice; as sites of unlearning and resistance. Considering relations between standing and falling, activity and passivity, doing and undoing, “Sleep Activism” declares itself first and foremost a choreographic practice in which our bodies become sites of encounter. Here, we unravel the myth that activism and choreography must perform a certain kind of doing.

This workshop is suitable for artists of any discipline who are interested in collective, durational, emergent, and generative choreographic practices. You don’t need to be a professional dancer to engage in this lab but you do need to be open and willing to move.