floorwerk: A weekend workshop exploring contemporary floorwork technique with gizeh muñiz vengel
Atland is hosting a dance workshop (May 3 & 4, 2025) facilitated by San Francisco based dancer gizeh muñiz vengel, who will be in residence at Atland this spring. The workshop weekend will kick off with a somatic based conditioning class taught by local dance artist Ellie Goudie-Averill, followed by a Sat and Sun contemporary floorwork technique class taught by gizeh muñiz vengel.
The 2-day contemporary dance workshop is open to locals who live in/near western Massachusetts as well as out of town folks who need lodging/meals (lodging options are private or shared rooms at Atland). The workshop is taking place in the beautiful new 33 Hawley Workroom located in downtown Northampton, MA. Out of town participants can take the Amtrak to the Northampton train station and walk one block to the 33 Hawley studio. For those flying, we suggest coming into the Bradley airport in Hartford, CT (let us know if you need an airport pickup).
A B O U T F L O O R W E R K
This is a dynamic floorwerk technique workshop that invites dancers to move from their fluid body. It focuses on the somatic process of learning (or remembering) and embodying movement, which allows us to not only train the body for aesthetic and performative purposes, but for building neural pathways that can help us expand our awareness of space, time, and connection to the land. Through breath, warmth, stillness and movement, this workshop explores a rigorous and buoyant physicality that embraces pleasure and tenderness, through phrases, somatic practices and improvisation. This workshop is ideal for all curious bodies that are interested in deepening their movement practice beyond form. Open to all levels.
A B O U T G I Z E H ’S T E A C H I N G:
I carry within my body my work with Kathleen Hermesdorf, Sara Shelton Mann, and a decade of study with dance, music and theater teachers throughout México. My dancemaking is deeply influenced by my study of the role of the body in holistic human development, which includes Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and close work with infants and young children who have not yet forgotten how to be in their bodies. This class carries the lineage from many dancers and movement researchers from Colombia and Mexico: Piso Móvil - Cortocinesis, Colombia; Continuum - Omar Carrum, México; Piso Articular - Ángel Arámbula, México; Humanimal - En Ningún Lugar, México; Ilse Meza; Octavio Dagnino; Humberto Vega; Yansi Méndez; Sergio Vázquez
A P P L I C A T I O N
Register before March 15, 2025. We’ll send you other forms to fill out once you register. Email us at info@torilawrence.org if you have any questions.
D A T E S
Sat. May 3 - Sun. May 4, 2025
Arrival on Sat the 3rd at 11:30am or arrival can be Fri the 2nd between 4:30pm-6:30pm (for those coming from out-of-town and who select to lodge with us). First workshop session is Sat at Noon, with a snack break at 1:30pm, and workshop resumes at 2pm. The last workshop session is on Sunday 11:30am-1:30pm and participants can depart afterward anytime before 2pm. There will be home-cooked meals Fri night and Sat/Sun mornings at Atland for an additional fee (this is included in the lodging option). A full schedule will be sent to participants prior to arrival.
S A T U R D A Y S C H E D U L E
ARRIVAL & BREAKFAST (11:30AM) // out-of-town folks are welcome to arrive on Fri night between 4:30-6:30PM if you are lodging with us with a 7PM dinner
MORNING WORKSHOP W/ ELLIE @33 HAWLEY (Noon-1:30PM) somatic conditioning with Ellie Goudie-Averill
BREAK & SNACKS (1:30PM-2PM)
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP W/ GIZEH @33 HAWLEY (2PM-4PM) floorwerk technique workshop with gizeh
DINNER ON YOUR OWN (folks staying at Atland can communally cook in the kitchen or go out to eat at our local Goldenrod Country Inn)
DRAG SHOW AT THE GOLDENROD INN (evening; optional)
HOT TUB CLUB @ATLAND (8:30PM-10:30PM)
S U N D A Y S C H E D U L E
BREAKFAST @ATLAND FOR THOSE STAYING OVERNIGHT (8:30AM)
WORKSHOP W/ GIZEH @33 HAWLEY (11:30AM-1:30PM) floorwerk technique workshop with gizeh
DEPARTURE (1:30PM-2PM)
T U I T I O N + M E A L S + H O U S I N G
Tuition: $150 (drop-in rates available, $50 per workshop)
OPTIONAL Housing/Meals @Atland: $150 (includes Fri & Sat night lodging; Fri dinner, Sat breakfast, Sun breakfast) Arrival can be Fri between 4:30pm-6:30pm or Sat at 11:30am. All participants must check out of their housing by Sun at 2pm.
OPTIONAL Train station pickup at Amtrak in Northampton, MA: $10 each way (Uber is also an option)
gizeh muñiz vengel
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gizeh moves, teaches and performs. She is from Mexico and is currently co-existing in San Francisco / Ohlone territory. They recreate body stories through touch, relationship, movement and stillness to explore new paradigms of temporality, relationality and intimacy. She is an improviser and composer devoted to witness beauty and the cultivation of wonder and curiosity. She listens to the dialogue created from, with, and through their body and her movement practice is fluent in floor work, somatic practices and deep listening.
Her choreographic and teaching work has been shared in the United States, Mexico and Europe in festivals such as Improspeckje in Croatia, GUSH in San Francisco and 4×4 in Tijuana, to mention some.
gizeh has been an artist in residence at: CounterPulse, PUSH, BANDALOOP and in The Community Engagement Residency with Bridge Live Arts, and the 2023-25 Radiate fellow of RAWdance.
gizeh is curator and producer of KH FRESH Festival, Performance Primers and Gatherings class series in the Bay Area.
ELLIE GOUDIE-AVERILL
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Originally from the Midwest, Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator who works with dancers of all ages on technique and performance. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, the University of Kansas, Franklin & Marshall College, Keene State College, and Connecticut College. In the past, she has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, Group Motion, and Sara Shelton Mann. Ellie is currently working on new projects with Beau Hancock and Barbie Diewald and is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works. She teaches ballet and contemporary at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges and at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. Ellie's dance reviews and other dance writings have appeared online at thINKingDANCE and Baryshnikov Arts Center.
