 Good morning everyone. It's morning somewhere. Hope you all are doing well today and welcome back to the virtual weekend of the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation. It is my pleasure to welcome you this morning to our first session of today, Morning Movement with Dora Arreola. My name is Andrea Asaf, and I'm the Artistic Director of Art to Action, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Artist Enclave Studio of Art to Action in Tampa, Florida, which is the land of the Seminole people. This morning, on behalf of Art to Action and Pangea World Theater, it is my pleasure and honor to invite you to get ready to move. For this session with Dora Arreola, you will need something to write on and write with. And a mat if you have one, some comfortable clothes to move in, and some space around you to move. It's really wonderful to introduce you to Dora if you don't already know her. We'll learn a little bit about Dora. She is the Artistic Director of Mujeres en Ritual Danza Teatro based in Tijuana, Mexico. She is also a founding artist collective member of Art to Action and a current board member. And she's a core faculty member of the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation, co-presented by Art to Action and Pangea World Theater, as well here in Tampa, Florida. She is Associate Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of South Florida, USF Tampa campus. So I hope you enjoy today's session and please welcome Dora Arreola. Thank you, Andrea. Thank you, Pangea, and Art to Action for the invitation. It's an honor to be here today. And thank you for the introduction. So we will go immediately to the work. So I would like to invite everybody to just create some heat on your hands just to imagine that we are just changing the energy of the body. So we are going to give a massage. So we started with the left shoulder, just up, up, up, up, going to the end of the arm, to the hands, under. Just to move the blood to the legs, if you're able, changing to the other side. Massage the legs, but it's actually no sign of waking up or massaging it. Love to your body. Right, so we're going to the left, right shoulder, chest, some sound. So if you're still feeling is fine, if you are really standing up, that's great too. We are going to start this moving session with readings. So we are going to imagine that actually it's not imagination. It's real that when we breathe the lungs and ribs and this area of the body, the thoraxic area, it moves to all the directions, right, this is dimensional. So we are going to inhale in eight seconds and we're going to imagine that we are moving lungs and ribs and thoraxic area to all the directions. That is the first movement. Right, so we are going to start with the first movement of the body that is inhale and exhale. So we inhale in eight seconds, inhale, you can place your hands on your belly. Three, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Pose. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Exhale, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We are going to also with the hands to create a movement of the lungs. So it will be then inhale, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Pose, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Exhale, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Excellent. So now we are going to use the eight seconds readings. It's a texture that goes into the body and we are going to open up as much as we can the body with eight seconds with air in heaven. Again, in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Stay one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, change. And exhale, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Stay two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Exhale, breathe in, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Stay one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Inhale, exhale. Great. So that's the beginning of all the class. So through the whole class, we are using inhale, exhale. All the time is a texture, right? It's the feeling, the texture, and also the breathing and the exhaling is the movement. Okay, so we're going to start with that. Actually, it's a very simple routine again about movement. So we are going to generate a kick. Can I hold my hand? Before going into the exercises, I want that you imagine now that actually you are cleaning or washing your body. So go ahead and just wrap your body up like you are cleaning. Imagine that you have water, I guess. So you see these movements. There we go. There is some tension. Check, check, check your body. Check the hands. Check the back. Jump a little bit. Inhale, exhale. Hands to the stomach. I'm going to go a little bit back and I will try to project a little bit more. So feet, it should be in this case, parallel. So we are creating a strong parallel. So they are in align with the knees. The knees are in align with the hip, hip and align with the shoulders. We're going to bring the shoulders up. Inhale, exhale down. Again, tension to inhale. Exhale down. Two more in. Exhale, last time. Inhale, exhale. Hands to the floor. So open up your fingers. Touch the floor. Connect with the earth. Bend your knees if you need it. Hands to your ankles. Hands to your knees. Open up your chest and look forward. Open up your chest. Look at the ceiling. Inhale. Exhale, cool. Inhale again. Inhale. Two, four, five, six, seven, eight. Exhale, two, three, four, five, six. Seven, eight, four, one, two, three, four. Inhale again. Exhale. Last time you inhale. Make it cool with your spine. If you want to catch water, look at the ceiling. Exhale. Connect with your chest. You are hoxies. Feel like a chin. And back to normal. Next area. The knees. So go ahead and give circles to the knees so you can massage knees but also feet. So we're doing around eight. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Other side. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. In and out. One, two, three, four, five. Give massages to other side. One. So long to your knees. Hands to the hips. Small circles to the right. One. Remember to breathe. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale to more. Hands to the shoulders. So a little bit of kind of hard movement here. Massage to shoulders. Shoulders, blades in and out. Other side. Give breathing. Relax. Relax the knees. Relax the arms. Breathe up. Exhale. Again. So we breathe up. And exhale to the side. We change directions. We are going to open the hands side to side. Bend the knees. Breathe. Exhale. Change the arms and the hands. Bend the knees. Look forward. This is not the exercise to realize. The head here is to look at your eyes. I'm saying something short for you. So observe if you're able to see. I'm moving my hands. Each time that I go down my hands go forward and each time that I go up my hands up side to side. Looking to the sides. Again, three more. Inhale. Exhale. Exhale. Last time. Exhale. And then we stop up. Turn the hands up. Drop your arm and the right side of the body is fully released. Put your hips if you're able. Make a corner with your spine and the arm. The end. Exhale. Return to center. All the arms up. Grotso. Drop left arm. Push the hip in. Back sent. All the arms. Both arms are arms are political. Hips forward. Relax the head again. One, two, three, four, and two, three, four. And from this we're going to create and body a five point position. You can see it for picture. So I'm going to inhale to grow exhale to ground. Stay here for this position. I call it grounded position. Earth, soil, rock, goddess inhale. Open a little more. Chest and back to ground. Goddess Earth Rock Position. Last time to five point. Open up the chest. Ground Arms slowly going down to the floor. One hand going up. Slowly up. And we are going to start movement with metaphor. Again, from this position here that is the five point start. Going to grounding going to floor and we are going to pick an imaginary bird little bird. We are going to move the bird to the right, starting with the hip we are going to expose the little bird, maybe it's her to the sun, back to center stay low as much as you can inhale change to the other side exhale go farther can be both arms or one change to center stay low to the floor. One, two, three after here we are going to paint the wall, imaginary wall with hands. We are painting the wall so we move the hands and fingers freely up and down great. Four more one but it's like the air wind. Last time we stop up low left hand become scoop so we are going to scoop the ground. One up low left two, open up five points again so we know it now do it. Same thing bird the bird, the painting and the scoop five points down two, three, four one, two, three inhale one three, four to the bird one, two four and pick up the bird three, four to the right one, two, three four, five, six seven, eight more in that eight seconds three, four, five six, seven change one, two, three four, five, six seven, eight change left one, two, three four, five, six seven, eight deep one two, three, four, five six, seven change again one, two three, four, five six, seven, eight floor one two, three, four paint one, breathe remember to breathe stop the hands become the scoop four, again two, three, four grounding one two, three, four relax for a moment so we did the bird utilizing the imagination of a bird moving a bird with hands the next part will be moving fire with the arms with hands so we are going to go to the floor grab fire and moving in eight seconds to the right push it with energy change it to the other side et cetera it's fire now so we are going to look at how the body responds how the body embodies elements objects imaginary oh it's not it's not the class about that but I want to use metaphor and symbolism and actual ideographies also for these movements so we are going to start with the five bones going to the fire now one, two, three, four and two, three, four and one, two, three, four fire one, two, three one, five, six seven, eight push one energy five, six, seven change fire one, two, three four, five, six seven change on the side one, two, three seven, eight push one, two, three a little harder here with your hands pushing with energy change one, two, three four, five, six, seven eight, four, one, two, three four and paint with the up here left hand scoop one come to the center of your mat or to the center of the place that you are hands right hands up the sky inhale bend your hands pull for the shoulder and elbow, relax the elbows relax the arms relax the head slowly going down once you are right here let it go allow yourself to make a sound relax the head you need to bend the knees go ahead and bend the knees inhale exhale grab your arms or let them go but move the arms side to side like the breeze moving them like the breeze of the ocean moving them side to side attention of the shoulders swing your arms side to side allow gravity works for you relax the neck relax the shoulders touch the floor and sit in a comfortable position so you are comfortable you are not it's not difficult for you to sit in this position that you find right for the body you can support with anything breathe out the arms out to the sky let's go on top of the right knee right arm becomes second spine and we breathe a little here like you want to let it take or to let it inhale exhale to twist to the right breathe to grow exhale to twist to the right inhale to grow exhale right arm up and exhale bend to the side breathe here remember inhale bend to the arm exhale wonderful other side inhale both arms out to the sky grow taller than you are right arm on top of the left knee left arm becomes second spine we grow taller inhale grow exhale twist inhale grow twist left arm to the ceiling and side bend to the right breathe there inhale exhale good and both legs then if you are able in a better bow position inhale exhale and if you are able you can touch the front head but if not that is fine too immediately going in I will say four legs let's start it by that this is the table right four legs table inhale exhale cool the spine inhale open up the chest look up to the ceiling again cool the spine and relax for a child close and then you go to the tensions of your head your neck slowly return to the center of the body and automatically you will be in this position let's call it hero noble anyway it's very comfy grab your arms open up the chest inhale touch the floor with your head you can lift your hip and back to center awesome we are going to again hands to the floor for four legs inhale so be prepared for facing down go for more exhale cool inhale again just to fix the spine feel your feet and bring your hip up for a facing down inhale exhale sigh walk or jump how you wanted you can feel your hands back or you can walk forward or you can jump as you wish have fun with that to return to center hand side to side we inhale and slowly fly up like birds flying to the sky like an eagle flying to the sky we take the time for this to return hips forward open up the chest and back closing here this session but this is one session and the continuation is a continual breathing continual using metaphors for the movement and continual using ideographies elements of the nature it can be wind it can be water it can be fire so I'm going to change a little bit to go a little further with the idea of symbolism, metaphor iconography or ideographies with the body because that's my area of interest so again we are going to start with this idea of that movement is about I mean acting sorry it's about transformation and when I say transformation I'm talking about not only the process and creativity that we end up from zero to a show from zero to a change in the community it's exactly where I'm going I'm going that this transformation that I start here that I start with creating an object and transforming it and sending it and taking this taking this giving, this balance so that in between this is transformation and is transformation of our communities when we are working here we are doing a key we are dealing with fire with water with heat with everything we are thinking about transformation so that is the point so we are going to start doing a movement thinking about transformation so we started with the idea again to create a heat and if you were with me in a room I would say that right hand is going to give basically like that so give and left hand it will take right so one hand is, what is this giving I would change, I would be right right it will take right take left will give so we open the hands for now like that like if we are carrying two great fruits right so we move the hand to the center and we are going to grab something here we are going to cash something here but and then with the left we are going to give voila take give take give and I take and I give let's repeat this movement so right left and we can start to cash and give several things like infinite things water transforming into flowers we cash in the air transforming into a ball et cetera so right again one two three four Espíritu del agua Espíritu burlo Espíritu del agua Espíritu burlo Espíritu del agua Espíritu burlo and take give right Espíritu del agua Espíritu so that's a combination of movement with method so I will know immediately from what we already been creating around us all the elections and we are going to continue but a little bit more into kind of a game our own movements and imagination so imagine that to any size I will pick this size of me or I can pick this any size you will cash or receive any object for example somebody send me this object here I write to me and I transform it so I transform it the object and something else come from the first object that was sent it and then I give it I didn't stay with it immediately after that put another object I have another object and immediately I will start to transform it transform it change it so that's my second so I will do that that's an instruction ok so I will go and do it almost in silence but it's for you to explore that idea of receiving transforming and giving receiving transforming giving sending so that will be in a row three times so we will be ended with six objects oh what you can receive it can be from objects like rock, flowers, fish through wind to an idea change you can transform it a history it can be as big or as as a general or as specific if you want to go it can be from a mountain to a feather is your own stuff is your own game so we are going to start doing it I will do it slowly but feel free to you know to not see me in this moment but things that you need to come up with six moments of receiving I mean six things six objects for example I will show actually I can show it to you my six movements in this moment those were my six movements ok so in terms of time is for you to do it I will do it again but you do it on your own it will take us one minute to do it alright so they started by I would say get ready to receive breathe to be available exhale to open up and go for the first one transform transform it transform it transform it so that is the idea of these objects coming and being transformed and being given away so between this little structure of take it transform it send it you will create a body sculpture so you will end it with three body sculptures that body sculpture for today please do not fix it it's an improvisation but what I want that you fixed this time is your six objects fix it and memorize it I mean for process and I will take I will take the advantage of this moment to be with you here to tell you that do not judge the objects or the the things that arrive in this moment welcome them do not judge them they will be transformed even if you do not agree with what you're getting you can get you know like a lot it's like the part that is a corn without the grains and I will not know I don't want this a lot I transform it and I transform it anything that I want to transform and send it I don't judge in this part of the exercise I'm not judging anything later I will select things so six objects you need to come out six objects and three sculptures I will start kind of doing the movement for us to know the timing of the exercise places exhale to open inhale to be available exhale to receive inhale to transform exhale to give first thing with object is coming transforming sculpture eight seconds come out of the sculpture continue and finish the exercise kind of in the middle of your transformation find a place to stop to freeze eight seconds continue the story create a new object and send it there, freeze for a moment continue and freeze transform that's the three if I if I'm okay and I think that is the three, okay so the next part of this movement that we're doing is to actually to grab a paper is not that we're going to write a poem not at all, I will have time but what you will write is the sequence of your object my first object was rock and I transform it into bird my second object that I took was flowers and I transform it oh it's in the other way no it's fine is fish the other object was hot and I transform it into a basket so those are my objects so so in this way I would like to invite you to write down the six objects don't worry about the sculpture it's improvisation the body status it can be there all the time but what is more important for us today is this object so once you have it I will give you 30 seconds it's very easy grab your pen your paper anything to write on and list it one coming take it transform it fly don't jash you okay with those things we are working together and we are supporting this process right once I get my list then I say okay I have my objects that appear today and I created but I am working on immigration and the disappeared teenagers of indigenous so I'm working on that it's a project that I'm developing so so I get my stuff and I say okay I want to put if I'm working in immigration I want to put ah muscle men okay so I show you already this and that's the idea of enlisting for this moment since I I'm working on the teenagers who were disappeared in Ayosinapan and migration I will look at these objects and I will change some of them to go more close to what I'm working on so what I did based on the topics that I'm working in immigration and los desaparecidos I come out with a very similar list it's almost the same but instead of rock I put water instead of bird I put butterfly I keep the flower and I keep the fish and then instead of hat I put a basket but because one of the cantos songs of the desaparecidos say and I remember that it was very popular phrase during that protest in Mexico quisieron enterrarnos pero no sabían que eramos semillas they wanted to barren a s but they didn't know that we were zits so my last object is zits so in that way I have a kind of structure that have elements of the topics that I'm working the iconographies the ideographies of border and butterflies that is migration, flowers fish that is the water basket and seeds in the connection with the desaparecidos so now my movement it will have another texture and another input because now I'm working with a purpose with intention and I am in day one of exploration so I will like that you take 30 seconds to think in a topic about the project that you're working and what image are you process of your project or you work what image is this iconical or meaningful for you to use I wish we can have more communication so we can share that and to know more about your projects and if you want to explore more for example I know I'm working on women's and what is age so what it will be so you can just chat and you want to share what elements now you are changing in order to accommodate your work your project into this exercise movement exercise that you can do every morning right so I give you 30 seconds and I will continue with this while you're doing that I will take my place also by putting the border here I'm kind of reaffirming that this exercise is not limited to just catch an apple or a ball or but you can catch everything you can receive everything it's your imagination actually I want to take advantage of this time that my work is based on Tadashi Suzuki from Japan that is my technique Jesse Grotowski from Poland but especially rituals from Mexico that's my foundations and I want to appreciate those creative ancestors and a lot of people that I've been working with to develop these exercises and these processes so all right so I think that is time for me to go and do a little bit of exploration that how it's going to be the border instead of rock, butterfly instead of bird and seeds instead of hat so probably it's going to bring me to the poem of they wanted to bury us but they didn't know that we were seeds seeds so I'm going to explore that I will do it in two minutes and then come back so I was telling you that the sculpture is 8 seconds and it can be in the middle of that moment of receiving and giving but not not the last one I would recommend it in the middle get more get more we say empapado con el trabajo creativo not with the ending but with the core of your movement so here we go I will change try to focus on that and I will I wish I can put music today in Spanish that is, my favorite indigenous music from Mexico but I will do it imagine and give music So that's my exploration with the topic, and by including the new elements, it changed completely. So I started to use the poem, I changed the song, lyrics of Espíritu de la Agua, Espíritu Lón, to the poem, Quisieron enterrarlo. So I can do everything, but what I'm offering today to you was structure. And it's when I am finding freedom, it's when I'm free, I am free. When I have this kind of, it's like the borders of a river that give form and power to the river. That's the structure for me. And it's movement, and it's fun, and it's discovering and creativity. I want to just to take a minute to breathe back, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Right hand to the side, last time hands together, I mean this way. Thank you very much. We are closing, and I want to say thank you again for being there and doing it, and also to Panjia into Action and all the, everybody on the team that is working behind the screen. Thank you very much. Thank you. On behalf of Arts Action and Panjia, I hope you all join me in a plazo para Dora Arreula and that incredible workshop and teaching of both warm up, grounding, creative process, devising, and so much wisdom and beauty shared in that. Thank you so much to Dora and to everyone. We're going to close out, but encourage you to stay with us for the rest of the day and join us for the next session, which you're seeing on your screen right now. Please join us for the next session starting soon. Masterclass with Sharon Bridgeforth will continue the devising process, including some writing prompts and another approach. So we hope that this whole process and experience with us this weekend at the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation with Hal Round, thank you so much, is giving you tools and creative practices and new approaches to creating your work and thinking about the creation process, as well as the issues that we're discussing in the panels today and tomorrow. Also want to shout out that there's an open mic tonight, and we want to say thank you to our funders. I'll go off screen so you can see them. Thank you to funders and partners and to all who make this work possible. And if you would like to support Art to Action and Pangea World Theater, we're both celebrating birthdays and anniversaries this year, Pangea and Art to Action, and a long and fruitful partnership. So we hope you'll join us. Hope to see you again soon for the next session. Thanks so much.