SERPENTINUUM: Embodying Spirical Movement In Partner Dance at – Portland, OR
Get your tickets to see SERPENTINUUM: Embodying Spirical Movement In Partner Dance in Portland, OR. Happening on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at . Doors open at .
In honor of the year of the snake and our ever spiraling, undulating existence, Cocréa invites you to Serpentinuum!
Designed for previous Cocréa attendees and movers with some experience in partner dance, this half day workshop will breakdown the physics of spirical movement, deepen understanding and perceiving of vectors, give you greater comfort in off-axis rotation, refine your balance and tap us into the numinous realm of spin.
Plenty of attention will be given to both leading and following the infinite array of serpentine movement along this beautiful continuum of play. All held within the context and vision of Cocréa as teaching and holding space for mindful movement that connects and transforms, this day is an opportunity for movers to deepen your practice and somatic presence, broaden your movement vocabulary and refine your listening both to partner and music.
One thing I love about snakes, is they are very patient, and very precise in their movements. They don’t spend energy frivoulously. So while we’ll be opening up the spine to move fluidly in delight, we’ll also be cultivating this quiet attention that facilitates the snake’s graceful flow through its world.
LOCATION
SomaSpace4050 NE Broadway StreetPortland, Oregon, 97232
EXCHANGE
$50-$100 sliding scale (pre-register)
$60-$120 sliding scale (at the door)
WORKSHOP CAPACITY is 40 PEOPLE!
We encourage you to preregister if you want to attend!
MEET THE FACILITATOR
Wren LaFeet
Wren is an embodiment guide intent on living in right-relationship as a 21st century human. Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, watersheds, neuroscience and psychology that support interpersonal connection and positive change. After initiating his own partner dance facilitation practice in 2011, Nomad Dance, Wren began the cultivation of partner dance as a vehicle for transformation through exploring mindful, consent based relational practice with Antje Schäfer. Cocréa was born in the fall of 2013.
Drawing from 2 decades in the theater being driven by the exploration of conflict, Wren wonders at the idea of all human problems being relational problems. Based on feedback from students and clients over the years, he hypothesizes that, if approached with honesty, vulnerability and courage, a dance encounter with another human can have as much healing capacity as talk therapy within a fraction of the time. The healing potential of the encounter seems dependent chiefly on the possession of three qualities in the practitioners: intention, integrity and presence. Thus informed, Wren creates brave spaces for humans struggling with disconnection and longing for a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves through the body.
Wren’s own many years of seeking have led him through theater and filmmaking, circus, nomadism, psychedelic-informed music culture, yoga, consent culture, decolonization work, permaculture, addiction recovery counseling and most presently breathwork.
Along his path, nature, community, relationship, humor, eros, movement and a sense of belonging to something far larger and more unknowable than this seemingly separate self are the consistent threads with which Wren braids meaning and purpose into life. He is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner, HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator and is in training to be an official Gene Keys Guide.
Wren currently splits his time between the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver), and the still yet federally unrecognized Nisenan Nation (Nevada County, California). He has been dancing since 1998 and has been presenting to groups since he was 6 years old.
COCRÉA
At its core Cocréa is a somatic methodology for working with life’s changes and adapting with them for a more regenerative, nurturing and harmonious world. Its presentation is that of a weave of Blues-inspired Fusion partner dance, contact improvisation and expressive dance. We build resilience by holding an attitude of curiosity and interest, pausing with depth of breath, listening into what’s needed and true when offering new ideas, and before saying yes or no to invitations.
Cocréa was co-founded by Wren LaFeet and Antje Schaefer amidst the Muse, Beloved & OneDoorLand community in Portland between 2012-2016. It is a Fu deeply infused with multicultural and polyrhythmic influences, and inspired heavily by the Gene Keys, Taoism and relational practices such as Authentic Relating.
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