RHDT Winter Intensive/Workshop with Rosie Herrera and Loren Davidson
December 12-16, 2024 @Barry University
10am-4pm EST
Put your parka away and pack your bikini to join us in Miami for RHDT ’s second ever Winter Intensive as we invite 30 lucky dancers into our creative process for a uniquely intimate/uniquely tropical dance experience.
Classes will be taught in the mornings by Rosie Herrera in partnership with long time collaborator Loren Davidson, and will focus on composing rituals for performance. In the afternoons, we will learn excerpts of RHDT repertory spanning the last 15 years of the company’s history. Hosted by Barry University, this workshop will feature live performance opportunities in collaboration with local composers and improvisational scores to be performed along the South Florida coast line.
Limited capacity so register now!
Workshop Fee: $550
After registration is complete, you will receive an invoice.
Reservations are not valid until payment is received. All purchases are non refundable.
Participants are responsible for food, travel and accommodations.
For more info please email Hotandheavymiami@gmail.com
Hot N’ Heavy is sponsored by the Barry University Department of English and Foreign Languages, and the Department of Fine Arts.
MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Celebratory Healing Remixed: Provisions for the Creative Practice
The creative practice requires our full attention every time we meet it, even in the midst of total unraveling. When we’re required to show up for creativity feeling crinkly and mal-nourished, we’ve got to call on reinforcements made by none other than YOU (with a little help from your friends). The beauty of creating is entering that space of mystery and magic and reveling in the moments where we feel “in living color”- charged up, fully full, and connected in a way that feels like a celebration. Never excluding who you are in the moment, but instead building practices that will support the YOU you in the NOW now with the US us. We’re all healing from something. We’re all unraveling and a bit chaotic. We’re all also in awe of it all- always seeking meaning as we are the ultimate meaning makers.
Some of the PRACTICES we will be in together:
The Station Exercise
Rituals On Site
Daily Practice for the Bewildered
Finding our Edges (“In Living Color”)
Hide & Find: sneaky secrets in the shadows
Asset Mapping
There will also be movement practices from the lineages of and inspired by: Pilates & Pema Chodron, Gyrokinesis & Walking the Labyrinth, Good ol’ Modern Dance, Somatics & Sunshine, Centering & Rev. angel kyodo williams, Brain Dance & Anna Halprin, The Imbodied Method, and supporting your pelvic hammock (formerly known as the pelvic floor)
ABOUT LOREN:
Loren Davidson is living a life of movement in multiple forms. The relationships built and stories shared through movement-based modalities such as Pilates, contemporary dance, improvisation and somatics-based practices are all included in the making and teaching container. These moments inform a durational practice named, healing duets, which is an ongoing project informed by grief, celebration, repurposing memories and breaking bread.
Loren works as a Pilates instructor and mentor at Polestar Pilates (Miami, FL) where she continues to develop healing rituals alongside strength and mobility programs. She is also a new instructor at The Space Between and ABSea Pilates in Naples, FL. She continues to work with all demographics of folx including a few of her specialities: Neuro clients, Professional dancers, Joint rehab and recovery, and Trauma clients.
Loren has most recently performed with Houston Grand Opera via Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers and Roxana Barba.
She has an MFA from Florida State University with an emphasis in Dance Medicine and Science and holds certifications in the Pilates method (Balanced Body and Polestar Pilates), Gyrokinesis, Trauma Informed Yoga and Somatics, Yoga and Pelvic Health, and Brain Dance (Anne Greene Gilbert).
Click thru the gallery below for more pics of Loren in Rosie’s work:
