Image As Action - Movement as Another Way of Seeing - Saturday, 11/7, 12pm

Image as Action

Movement as Another Way of Seeing

With Sydney T Sorenson + Jonah Scott Mendelsohn

Saturday, November 7th, 12 - 2pm

A Collaborative Movement Workshop
All levels · For art lovers, movers, dancers, and actors

Inspired by Electra Gallery’s artists, this all-levels workshop explores how a piece of art can enter our inner landscape, inviting us to transform the way we experience ourselves and interact with our environment.

The workshop will begin with a guided movement warm-up to awaken and embody the impulses that shape our creative response - thinking, feeling, and moving. We will then interact with artworks on display at the Electra Gallery, exploring how they move us - both inwardly and outwardly. The workshop will conclude in a group, weaving our individual experiences together into a shared movement phrase.

No dance or acting experience is necessary, only curiosity and a willingness to notice, explore, and connect.

Tennis shoes (or similar) and clothes that are comfortable for movement are recommended.

About the Faciliatators:

Sydney Sorenson is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and researcher whose work explores the intersection of movement, perception, and awareness. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, she earned a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and an MFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed with L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, NOW-ID, Kidd Pivot, and artists including Helene Fischer, Grimes, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Jonah Scott Mendelsohn is a singer, theater maker, and movement teacher based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jonah is a seasoned practitioner of the Michael Chekhov acting technique – a psychophysical approach to acting that uses movement and imagination in a healthy way to foster bold, truthful transformation in performance.

He is also a Guild-certified in the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education, offering body work and movement classes in Santa Fe and Los Alamos to help all people reduce stress and pain, change habits, and improve agility, balance, & power.