Instructors: Boston Dance Theater
Tuesday - Friday
June 23 - 26
9:30am - 12:30pm
4 sessions
A participatory movement, drawing, and storytelling workshop
Listening Green is an open, community-centered workshop that invites participants to listen deeply to their bodies and their environment, translating observation, memory, and sensation into movement. The process weaves together exploratory movement practices, simple drawing and mark-making, and guided storytelling to generate shared choreographic material.
Participants engage in improvisational tasks that explore space, rhythm, and imagery, alongside reflective drawing and short spoken or written prompts. These multiple modes of expression support a wide range of learning styles and make the workshop accessible to dancers and non-dancers alike.
Across the residency, this process will gently shape a short, collective choreography rooted in the Truro landscape and the lived experiences of the participants. Those who wish to do so will be invited to perform this movement score as a brief opening piece for Boston Dance Theater’s outdoor performance on Friday. Participation in the performance is entirely optional.
Boston Dance Theater Teaching Artists
Boston Dance Theater (BDT) is Boston’s only full-time contemporary repertory dance company. BDT’s teaching artists are core members of the company who tour nationally and internationally while leading community classes, workshops, and residencies across the U.S. and abroad.
BDT’s educational work emphasizes accessibility, creativity, and embodied learning, drawing from contemporary dance, somatic practices, improvisation, and interdisciplinary research. For Castle Hill, classes and workshops will be led by a rotating group of BDT core artists under the direction of Founder and Co-Director Jessie Jeanne Stinnett.
BDT Core Member individual bios: https://www.bostondancetheater.com/dancers