New & Noteworthy

 

Image: Susan Sentler, Dancer: Valerie Lim

The Fold as Somatic/Artistic Practice

a newly minted intensive online curated course

 Susan Sentler & Glenna Batson

7th of September – 9th of October 2020

 

For seven years, dance and multi-media artist Susan Sentler and somatic educator Glenna Batson have been collaborating on the artistic practice of folding – through movement, image, and other materials and technologies.

 

We are thrilled to offer a new course to all enthusiasts of art making – regardless of discipline.

 

The course is a five-week excursion into working with our guidance and curation through a palette of embodied processes and multi-media infusion. Designed as a generative platform for sourcing creativity, the course offers a space to transform playful exploration into deeply honed intimacy within art making….

 

FULL DESCRIPTION  HERE.

APPLY HERE

 

 

Human Origami is

 

An evolving STEAM network

STEAM stands for scientists, technology experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians – a trans-disciplinary network whose collaborations give rise to new art forms and scientific insights. Human Origami invites collaborations around the science and art of folding, offering new ways of envisioning and understanding the underlying aesthetic of life’s processes. Performing artists partner with bioengineers to fashion designers. The result? A new perspective on the aesthetics and logistics of human organization.

 

An embodied process of body-mind transformation.  

Human Origami movement workshops explore how the body folds and unfolds in response to an enriched sensory environment of movement, music, language and multi-media that engage body, mind and ear – a liminal experience that transforms consciousness and catalyzes creativity in movement expression.

 

A window into human development –

Folding is the basic movement repertoire and an archive etched into the history of human development.  Bio-Origami is how we got here, a continuum throughout the lifespan. Folding is how the embryo builds a body without a brain – a brilliance that speaks to the fundamentals of movement dynamics in the ecosystem of life.

GALLERY  – A glimpse of our past events!


 


Pleated Matter

Pleated Matter



Partnering Paper

Partnering Paper



Bio-Origami

Bio-Origami



Folded Sound

Folded Sound



Nested Habitats