FEBRUARY 23rd, 2020
MAKING THE MOST: A workshop for women exploring aging through movement
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Come join us to collectively and creatively explore through movement themes related to the last third of life. This workshop meets about 8 times a year, approximately once a month. A group member collaborates with co-facilitators Greacian Goeke and Kaethe Weingarten to choose each workshop’s theme, select music, design the session and facilitate. Workshops include movement and music with open prompts, discussion, partnering, group formations and reflection.
Mostly movement!
This month, we are colliding our celebrations of Valentine’s Day and President’s Day to address longing, regret and passion in politics. Liz Ingersoll will co-facilitate with Kaethe.
Previous themes have included: Why Wait?; Spring Forward; Thresholds; What Really Matters?; The Things We Carry; Playing with (Our) Blocks.
Here are some comments from past workshops:
- Moving now puts me back in touch with the child I was who danced all the time
- Moving integrates me, body and mind
- Puts me in touch with joy
- A dance partnership with life as it is
- Dignify my body
- What am I waiting for?
NEXT DATES
Sunday, February 23, 3 – 5 pm
Sunday, March 29, 3 – 5 pm
We have a limit of 20, so RSVP is recommended. You are welcome to bring a friend—please let us know.
Workshops are free but we ask a $10 – $15 sliding scale donation toward the studio rental.
We look forward to moving with you soon!
RSVP to Kaethe at kaethew@gmail.com or Greacian at ggoeke@mac.com
Greacian Goeke is a music and dance educator and T’ai Chi practitioner whose passion is opening the horizons to movement to all ages. She founded and directs the elder movement ensemble Impromptu No Tutu of Albany (CA). She and Kaethe first collaborated to create Walking in Witness, an outdoor movement project in Mountain View Cemetery, which inspired the Making the Most series.
Kaethe Weingarten is a clinical psychologist who directs the American Family Therapy Academy’s Witness to Witness Program (afta.org/w2w). She has been collaborating in movement, dance and choreography with Greacian since 2015, having moved to Berkeley in 2013 after living in Boston for 48 years. Her five grandchildren live in the East Bay and she dances with them.