Process + Express
HOLDTIGHT Company presents Process + Express: a composition workshop. These open-level creative workshops guide attendees through an abbreviated version of HOLDTIGHT’s unique creation process, offering meaningful and connecting ways to express oneself and shift ideation to action. Workshops utilize pen and paper, body and voice, heart and mind, and the natural environment around us to better tune in and explore ourselves. Workshops incorporate writing, physical movement, speaking, and sound-making to find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from your personal, lived experience and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world. These workshops are designed for bodies who want to move and explore, for individuals interested in developing new tools to use in their creative practice, and for those wanting to dive into the intersection between art, personal narrative, and nature. All are welcome.
Attendees can expect to engage in:
- meditation
- prompted journaling
- discussion
- physical and vocal warm-up
- somatic movement
- guided improvisation
- storytelling and composition
- ritual surroundings
- forest bathing
- tea ceremony
to explore topics and questions such as:
- climate change
- interdependence
- reciprocity
- sustainability
All workshops are created and led by HT’s Artistic Director Gwendolyn Gussman, at times with assistance from HT’s renowned multi-disciplinary collaborators.
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In addition to being Artistic Director of HOLDTIGHT, Gwendolyn Gussman is an experienced teacher, facilitator of experiences, choreographer & performing artist. Gussman is a certified Pilates & Yoga instructor and has extensive teaching experience of pilates, yoga, dance, and somatic practices to a range of bodies, abilities, injuries, & ages 13-85 years old. She maintains a thriving private practice as well as teaching at prestigious studios & schools.