Expand your partnering skills in this workshop focused on three simple movement elements: push, pull, and stack. Dancers will experience a holistic BrainDance warm up that lays the foundation for partner work, followed by mini-lessons on weight-sharing, counterbalancing, and lifting. Dancers will have the opportunity to practice their skills in a choreographic sequence, and create their own phrases to be performed for their peers. No partnering experience necessary. Dancers will utilize a consent-based approach to partnering exercises that ensures autonomy and safety. 

Bri Wilson (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in Seattle. Originally from northwest Michigan, her creative work braids the elements of writing, movement, and nature into compelling, curious, and narrative-driven performances. As a performer in Seattle, Bri has worked with The Three Yells, Elia Mrak, and Marlo Martin + badmarmarDANCE, among others. She has presented her own work at 12 Minutes Max, Full Tilt Dance Festival, LAUNCH, Seattle International Dance Festival, and Fuselage Dance Film Festival. As an educator Bri teaches holistic modern and contemporary dance technique with a focus on rigorous exploration and play. She holds a BFA from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California, has received training in brain-compatible dance education from Anne Green Gilbert and Dionne Kamara at Creative Dance Center in north Seattle, and completed the Teaching Artist Training Lab from ArtsWA in 2022. Bri is currently earning her MFA in Dance from Hollins University.