We seem to be living in a time of near-continuous crisis—both actual and existential. In the absence of guidance that might help us make sense of these conditions, or meaningfully mitigate them, what is the individual to do? This workshop explores how we move through and within the world, engaging in a shared physical practice that creates space to reflect, to feel, and to remain present within complexity. Together, we cultivate an embodied way of staying with the trouble—not by resolving it, but by learning how to move within it.

Bill Coleman draws on a movement methodology developed over a lifetime of dance practice. This work accesses an embodied cognitive state—one that supports both movement exploration and approaches to performance and technique. Participants are guided toward a deeper physical awareness, strengthening their connection to sensation, presence, and action. The practice cultivates heightened sensory awareness, enabling both refined physical control and a sense of freedom—opening pathways into new territories of movement and perception.
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This work invites a softening of habitual patterns of thought, image, and muscular control. Rather than directing the body through large, effortful actions, attention shifts toward subtler internal dynamics. We begin to sense and follow the body’s internal rhythms—its waves, impulses, and self-arising movement—that are present within us at all times. From this place, movement emerges not as something imposed, but as something discovered.