LA-based artist Emily Mast is offering a free, intensive 8 day experimental movement & voice workshop at Betonsalon art center that explores the complementary roles of personal autonomy and interrelationality through conscious and collective production in precarious times.

As a group, we will engage in exercises that involve physical movement, vocalization, theatrical play, free writing, hypnosis, tantra, dom/sub dynamics, and durational improvisation. Together, we will build a series of consent and boundary frameworks that probe collective thresholds and engage the subconscious, mining it as a tool for creation and transformation.

Workshops will begin with exercises in building intrapsychic and interpersonal trust among participants. We will cultivate a practice of courage and care, learn how to be vulnerable with one another, and develop our expressive vocabulary as a group.

We will share our process with outside eyes during two public “sharing sessions” on two consecutive Saturdays – more in a gesture of humility than of performativity.

Together, we will be asking: what might be possible if we accept to work in constant relation to one another? If existence necessarily means being in relationship, and if authority is decentralized, how might we come up with working methods that can shape equitable presents and futures? And how might we build the necessary structures to manage all of the above with optimism and imagination?

In order to build an atmosphere of trust and security, participants must commit to attending each workshop session in its entirety.

People of all ages, backgrounds, and physical abilities are encouraged to apply. A willingness to collaborate is imperative to this process as it openly demands an abandonment of the ego in favor of collective identity. Participants must be curious and open to experimenting with their body, their voice, and their subconscious. All workshops will be conducted in French. No prior performance experience necessary.