About

“If your body could speak, what would it say?”

Using an intermodal arts process of movement, drawing and writing, participants will explore the interplay between the physical, emotional and mental levels of awareness in solo, duet and group improvisation. Our bodies carry sensation, feelings, memory and somatic wisdom that longs to be expressed in a supportive and non-judgemental creative process. In the spirit of personal development and collective care, this is a space to let the body move and communicate in relationship to self, others and the world at large.  The Tamalpa Life-Art Process® is a movement-based expressive arts therapy modality historically rooted in the field of Somatics and the Post-Modern Dance era. It traverses the intersection of mental health, social justice and performance. This peer-based aesthetic feedback and witnessing method serves as a building block to collective liberation, expanding movement vocabulary and dance as a healing art. 

*All levels, backgrounds and abilities are welcome. Ages 18+

*There will be a short break for snacks and rest. Workshop will start promptly at 5pm. There is air conditioning in the studio.

*Wear comfortable dance clothes you can move in, avoid dangling jewelry,

*Socks or barefeet is suggested

*Bring water, a snack and a journal to write in

Where: Village Dance Arts, 111 Harvard Pl, Claremont, CA 91711 (Upper Studio)

When: Friday Aug. 14, 5-8pm

Class Fee & Materials: $80 (materials provided)

MUST PRE-REGISTER

Please email somatic.responder@gmaill.com for any questions and if there is a need for financial assistance. 

Facilitator Bio:

Elizabeth Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT (she/her/ella) is the Founding Artistic Director of the Piñata Dance Collective since 2011 and has led the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) since 2014. She is a second generation Chicana, queer and neurodivergent choreographer, educator, presenter, somatic movement therapist, mother and bird watcher. She builds bridges between several communities by placing value on intersectional identity, adaptive dance practices, collective liberation, care economies, mental health and decolonial solidarity. Elizabeth’s dance practices are based in modern-contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Tamalpa Life-Art Process®, EcoSomatics, Circle Singing and Chicana feminist spiritualities. She has presented her choreography and performance labs in Mexico, San Francisco, Berkeley,  Los Angeles, Germany and Italy and is a signatory of Theater Workers for a Ceasefire and Dancers For Palestine. Boubion holds a BA in Dance from CSU Long Beach, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the California Institute of Integral Studies(CIIS) and is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). She facilitates the El Grito Podcast and has a substack called Somatic Responder. Elizabeth has held adjunct Dance faculty positions at St. Mary's College of California, Sonoma State University and is a visiting dance lecturer at Scripps College, Cal State Long Beach and Lines BFA program. Ms. Boubion has returned to her hometown on Tongva, Gabrielino land in Claremont, Ca. and is establishing on-going classes and a private movement coaching practice. www.lizboubion.org