Perceiving, Perceiving + Perceiving
Learning to stay when the images shifts...
The following is an excerpt from some writing I am doing in preparation for class tomorrow night:
…I get curious about this in day to day life, in a cafe, encountering a crush or in the moments before a heartbreak. I become aware of this most viscerally in moments when orientation happens faster than understanding. Can we translate this into improvisation? On to the stage, where an image is made and then it unfolds. We begin with an image. A sense, a projection, a quiet story forming before anything has actually happened. I notice how easily I can see another person through what I am longing for, fearing, or imagining. In these moments I am learning as much about my own interior landscape as I am about the person in front of me.
Relational space becomes a negotiation between what I perceive and what is real. When I allow another person to reveal themselves beyond my initial image, something has to shift. Sometimes this brings tension, sometimes relief, and often disorientation. The practice becomes staying present as the image changes.
Two or more inner worlds meeting, adjusting, finding rhythm. Encounters unfold gradually. One can track the speed of the imagination as something different from the speed of the nervous system and trust. For me, resilience is living as closely to reality as I possibly can, while also allowing hope, dreaming, and imagination. But only to the extent that when it is met with the world and the universe of other people, and undoubtedly deviates, the disorientation is temporary and not so painful…
If you want more access to what is being shared in Improvisational Practices + Techniques, email me directly for syllabus. Drop-ins are determined by a case by case basis. If you could not register and would like to come to class, reach out.
Whats Next?!
GROUPSHAKE
Friday , March 27th 7:00 pm @ Eno House in Durham
(More info about parking on @undercurrentnc the day of)
Group Shake is a collective solo durational practice. We come together to tend to our own bodies, in community. It offers an alternative to ecstatic dance for those interested in movement without touch or interaction with others. We shake and move to music over an extended period, focusing on shaking and rocking, allowing the body to move naturally—free from concerns about appearance, skill, or rhythm. While it may resemble dancing, the true intention is to release tension and energy. This practice promotes circulation, supports the nervous system, enhances overall health, and fosters a sense of community.
Hosting the UNDERSCORE
Saturday, April 4th, 10:00 AM -2:00 PM
Virtual talk-through on Thursday, March 26th from 7-9pm (replay will be available)
The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation practiced developed by Nancy Stark Smith that is guided by compositional imagery, unfolds through a range of dynamic states, and concludes with a gathering of community harvest.
Somatic Coaching - New News!
I am a certified Somatic Stress Release Practitioner through The Embody Lab. I am excited to share that I have completed the process. Thank you to all who took part in my practice sessions.
This work is moving, to say the least.
If you are at a point where you are ready for support around a specific topic, pattern, or tendency that you would like to look at and move through, this is the work for you.
I encourage a multi session experience where you will move through your days in between sessions with a heightened attunement toward patterns and tone. The work happens just as much in your day to day life as it does in session. Turning toward yourself happens in small, simple, but not always easy ways that make a huge difference in everyday embodied experience.
If this sounds supportive to you in a kind of scary but compelling way, let’s start.
Let yourself be supported in learning to hold yourself.
Ways to do session:
15 minute phone call.
1h or 1.5hr sessions - On the phone, On zoom or in person.
Also after doing one or two sessions, I can do text message support in acute moments of processing.
To schedule a session email me directly, or send me a text.
anna.maynard@gmail / nine one nine nine three one two six three zero
Photography - Spring is here!
Book a session for the blooming.
Family, Portrait, Solo, Business, Workshop, Community etc. I do it all .
$250 1 location 1 look
To schedule a session email me directly, or send me a text.
anna.maynard@gmail / nine one nine nine three one two six three zero
Web Design & Development
If you or anyone you know are ready to bring your website dreams to life we are so excited to take care of everything from logo and branding to copy, to the building of the site.
This is a concentrated two week process from start to finish. I take two clients a month.
I love this process.