April Immersion 2018

Our April immersion focused on falling, consent, comfortability and extensions. 

April 7th, 2018

Ione and Colleen working on extensions

Joanna working with an extension

Nancy and Gabe testing out their comfortability

Nancy working on weight-sharing with different parts of her body

Shana using extensions to explore the environment

Joanna working on weight-sharing

Gabe falling with grace

Intergenerational Parcon Play

Where:  Church of the Living Hope, 161 East 104th St, NYC, NY 10029

When:  2-5pm May 19th, 2018

Who:  An intergenerational Parcon workshop with participants from the Su Casa Residency program and their families. 

What: We explored objects exploring the environment. A plastic shovel sliding along and around a metal railing versus a rubber stopper needing to roll along its surfaces. Then we explored consent in making contact with each other. And we ended by moving our partner as we did our objects, and then found ways to support their exploration in Parcon.

Andrew Suseno is a participant in SU-CASA. SU-CASA is a collaboration among the New York City Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department for the Aging and the City's five local arts councils. This program is administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and supported by public funds from the New York City Council in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department for the Aging. LMCC.net.

April Immersion 2018

Our April immersion focused on falling, consent, comfortability and extensions. 

April 7th, 2018

Ione and Colleen working on extensions

Joanna working with an extension

Nancy and Gabe testing out their comfortability

Nancy working on weight-sharing with different parts of her body

Shana using extensions to explore the environment

Joanna working on weight-sharing

Gabe falling with grace

Stick Stroll

What: Stick Strolls are Parcon explorations with a 6 foot hardwood dowel. Extension exploration can be done with any object: blankets, ropes, cones, books, cushions. It all comes down to how we connect with the world through our bodies and their relationships to others, objects and the world.

Where: 52 Walker St, Church st. Boxing Gym, NYC, NY 10013

When: December 10, 2017

Who: Parcon students drawn from Contact Improvisation community and Movement Creative

Click here to see some footage of the event: 

Testimony:

Black Panther Women Collaboration (Feb 23 & Mar 4, 2018 -Fundraiser)

Testimony:

Dear Andrew,

I had an amazing time at your Movement Through Space workshop, I enjoyed learning about the various ways of distributing weight throughout the body to create an entirely new form. In the long run, your program has made me think of extending the limitations that I have allowed my body to develop over time. Stability, balance & flexibility are things I highly focus to work on a daily basis. I can't wait to see what you will present in the next lesson."  - Maggie Ramos

When: February 23, 2018

Where:: Sanctuary Theater 165 W 86th St, NYC, NY 10024

What did we do? 

Total Play for Empowerment was a workshop that took place before the Black Panther Women show.

First movers learned how to safely Parcon with the church pews in the theater and each other. And then we explored one of the tenants of the Black Panther 10 point program. We chose to project our relationship to "housing" onto the church pews and we made contact with them from a place of abundance, scarcity and then as ourselves. Then we reflected on our experience together. Then with consent, we used Parcon to enter back into the solo experience of one of the movers to support their need for stimulation while engaging in a relationship to housing that felt stagnant for them.

Following the class, some of the participants stayed and watched the powerful performance of the Black Panther Women (BPW) written and directed by Jacqueline Wade. It was fascinating to have a movement experience to embody our sense of justice around the 10 point issues and then to see how these actors embodied the sense of justice that BPW had for the black community in America. 

March 4th followed a similar flow only the location for the workshop was the Soldier and Sailor Monument on 90th and the Hudson River.