What:
Underbelly is a conscious dance experience and embodied movement inquiry. Explore The Art of Slowing Down with music, movement, presence, and human contact to reveal unique states of connection and authenticity. Invite movement from feeling the intimate spaces of your body, breath and being. Cultivate deeper awareness, listening, and attunement as you relate to self, other and the environment. Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture and dive into a slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, honest and real for you in every moment.
Where:
Little Boxes Theater
1661 Tennessee St.
San Francisco, CA
How to get there and enter the building: https://www.littleboxestheater.com
Admission:
$20 (pay online to Eventbrite, no tickets sold at the door)
Who:
For embodied dancers and experienced movement practitioners (all dance/movement backgrounds welcome). No kiddos/minors please! Wear comfortable clothing for moving/dancing.
Schedule:
Every Friday night, 8-11PM
8-8:30: Arrival and grounding
8:30-8:50: Opening
8:50-9:30: Facilitated initiation
9:30-10:40: Open dance
10:40-11: Closing
Insights/Inquiries:
What happens when you give yourself time/space to intentionally slow your pace?
~Illumining your true yes and no.
~Inviting agenda-less human contact with a focus on nurturance, presence, and appreciation.
~Releasing pre-conceived notions of dance, body stereotypes, technicality, method, and choreography.
~Unwinding habituated movement, unconscious tension, patterns of immediacy and conditioned identity.
~Heightening tactile, kinesthetic, sensory, and energetic faculties.
~Accessing emotional, somatic, sensuous, and subtle/micro inner landscapes.
~Playing with thresholds of vulnerability: witnessing and being witnessed.
~Navigating moment to moment experiencing with curiosity vs. controlling or directing outcomes.
~Asking questions vs. expecting answers. Allowing vs. fixing.
~Feeling into honest/attuned movement vs. socially contrived movement.
~Unlocking permission to feel and express what is truthfully arising, present, alive, real and raw.
~Unwinding the nervous system to restore grounding, receptiveness, listening and balance.
~Rooting into a loving/attentive/empowered relationship with the mind, body, heart, and spirit.
~Becoming intimate with the realms of tenderness, intensity and discomfort.
~Refining the boarders of responsibility vs. projection.
~Examining interpersonal/transpersonal realms of relating.
~Moving from your truth, emotion, feeling, power, and enough-ness.
~Deriving power/choice internally vs. externally
~Inviting pauses and noticing the space between action/movement.
~Attuning the body’s energetic field to the slower biorhythms of the planet: more BE-ing, less doing.
Underbelly Experience Features:
~Opening/Closing together
~Facilitated initiation into the dance
~Pre-curated playlists/soundscapes ranging from beautiful to sensual to ambient to downtempo. No live DJ or front of the room.
~Occasional interwoven musical guests/sound healing/silence
~Witnessing Space: Intentional space dedicated to vulnerability- meditate and witness the dance floor + allow fellow dancers to be witnessed.
~Floor Space: Intentional space dedicated to grounding: floor movement, stretching, rolling, laying, presencing, and anchoring.
Code of Conduct:
~Liability waiver and agreement must be signed before participation in the event.
~Please refrain from wearing heavy scents/fragrance.
~No talking/chit chat on the dance floor. However consent-based/intentional communication (both verbal and non-verbal) is encouraged, but please keep it minimal or quietly take it off the main floor.
~This is a non-sexual/non-sexualized container. Please treat this with care and integrity. Report all/any inappropriate behavior to the Underbelly staff.
~This is a sacred/safe space, please be sensitive/respectful/responsible.
~Shoes off on the dance floor.
~This is a substance free space.
~Please keep valuables at home, we are not liable for your things and will not have a coat check.
~You are always responsible for your energy and choices.
Logistics:
~Ample and free street parking...keep valuables hidden or at home.
~Come on time, we want to open and close the container together.
~Complete payment online, no tickets sold at the door.
~Bring your own water+water bottle/self-care necessities. Water will also be available at the venue. Please keep all food and liquids off the main floor space.
~ We will have a lost and found bin.
~Try to arrive already dressed for dance, we only have one bathroom space.
~If you have feedback/concerns/questions, please message the organizers directly through the Underbelly page.
Building Features:
~Second story industrial artistic community space
~Floor to ceiling windows
~Professional light grid for atmospheric/mood lighting
~8-channel mixer sound system
~Huge 1300 sq ft. sprung dance floor
~Full bathroom and kitchen
About the Creator:
Amy Rogg is a Bay Area based transformational creator and multi-platform artist nurturing the human spirit through holistic arts. She is also a vibrant dancer, yogi, singer/actor/model, voice-over artist, movement facilitator, and professional goofball.
Amy creates permission for people to step out of their own limitations and into greater vulnerability and authenticity by awakening and renewing deep attunement and intimacy with self. She catalyzes people into their emotional inner world and intuitive body wisdom by slowing down, making space, and tuning into the tenderness, intensity, and beauty of every moment.
On the arts end, Amy is a Los Angeles trained actor with a B.A. in television/film production. On the wellness end, she has taught yoga (E-RYT 500) and connective/somatic movement for the past 7 years. She weaves these modalities together creating an integrated experience for the whole body, mind and spirit.
Her greatest dance practices/inspirations: GAGA, Ecstatic Dance, Soul Motion, 5 Rhythms, Fusion/Micro Fusion, Contact Improvisation, Open Floor, Dancing Freedom, and everything Anna Halprin.
https://www.amyrogg.com
What:
Underbelly is a conscious dance experience and embodied movement inquiry. Explore The Art of Slowing Down with music, movement, presence, and human contact to reveal unique states of connection and authenticity. Invite movement from feeling the intimate spaces of your body, breath and being. Cultivate deeper awareness, listening, and attunement as you relate to self, other and the environment. Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture and dive into a slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, honest and real for you in every moment.
Where:
Little Boxes Theater
1661 Tennessee St.
San Francisco, CA
How to get there and enter the building: https://www.littleboxestheater.com
Admission:
$20 (pay online to Eventbrite, no tickets sold at the door)
Who:
For embodied dancers and experienced movement practitioners (all dance/movement backgrounds welcome). No kiddos/minors please! Wear comfortable clothing for moving/dancing.
Schedule:
Every Friday night, 8-11PM
8-8:30: Arrival and grounding
8:30-8:50: Opening
8:50-9:30: Facilitated initiation
9:30-10:40: Open dance
10:40-11: Closing
Insights/Inquiries:
What happens when you give yourself time/space to intentionally slow your pace?
~Illumining your true yes and no.
~Inviting agenda-less human contact with a focus on nurturance, presence, and appreciation.
~Releasing pre-conceived notions of dance, body stereotypes, technicality, method, and choreography.
~Unwinding habituated movement, unconscious tension, patterns of immediacy and conditioned identity.
~Heightening tactile, kinesthetic, sensory, and energetic faculties.
~Accessing emotional, somatic, sensuous, and subtle/micro inner landscapes.
~Playing with thresholds of vulnerability: witnessing and being witnessed.
~Navigating moment to moment experiencing with curiosity vs. controlling or directing outcomes.
~Asking questions vs. expecting answers. Allowing vs. fixing.
~Feeling into honest/attuned movement vs. socially contrived movement.
~Unlocking permission to feel and express what is truthfully arising, present, alive, real and raw.
~Unwinding the nervous system to restore grounding, receptiveness, listening and balance.
~Rooting into a loving/attentive/empowered relationship with the mind, body, heart, and spirit.
~Becoming intimate with the realms of tenderness, intensity and discomfort.
~Refining the boarders of responsibility vs. projection.
~Examining interpersonal/transpersonal realms of relating.
~Moving from your truth, emotion, feeling, power, and enough-ness.
~Deriving power/choice internally vs. externally
~Inviting pauses and noticing the space between action/movement.
~Attuning the body’s energetic field to the slower biorhythms of the planet: more BE-ing, less doing.
Underbelly Experience Features:
~Opening/Closing together
~Facilitated initiation into the dance
~Pre-curated playlists/soundscapes ranging from beautiful to sensual to ambient to downtempo. No live DJ or front of the room.
~Occasional interwoven musical guests/sound healing/silence
~Witnessing Space: Intentional space dedicated to vulnerability- meditate and witness the dance floor + allow fellow dancers to be witnessed.
~Floor Space: Intentional space dedicated to grounding: floor movement, stretching, rolling, laying, presencing, and anchoring.
Code of Conduct:
~Liability waiver and agreement must be signed before participation in the event.
~Please refrain from wearing heavy scents/fragrance.
~No talking/chit chat on the dance floor. However consent-based/intentional communication (both verbal and non-verbal) is encouraged, but please keep it minimal or quietly take it off the main floor.
~This is a non-sexual/non-sexualized container. Please treat this with care and integrity. Report all/any inappropriate behavior to the Underbelly staff.
~This is a sacred/safe space, please be sensitive/respectful/responsible.
~Shoes off on the dance floor.
~This is a substance free space.
~Please keep valuables at home, we are not liable for your things and will not have a coat check.
~You are always responsible for your energy and choices.
Logistics:
~Ample and free street parking...keep valuables hidden or at home.
~Come on time, we want to open and close the container together.
~Complete payment online, no tickets sold at the door.
~Bring your own water+water bottle/self-care necessities. Water will also be available at the venue. Please keep all food and liquids off the main floor space.
~ We will have a lost and found bin.
~Try to arrive already dressed for dance, we only have one bathroom space.
~If you have feedback/concerns/questions, please message the organizers directly through the Underbelly page.
Building Features:
~Second story industrial artistic community space
~Floor to ceiling windows
~Professional light grid for atmospheric/mood lighting
~8-channel mixer sound system
~Huge 1300 sq ft. sprung dance floor
~Full bathroom and kitchen
About the Creator:
Amy Rogg is a Bay Area based transformational creator and multi-platform artist nurturing the human spirit through holistic arts. She is also a vibrant dancer, yogi, singer/actor/model, voice-over artist, movement facilitator, and professional goofball.
Amy creates permission for people to step out of their own limitations and into greater vulnerability and authenticity by awakening and renewing deep attunement and intimacy with self. She catalyzes people into their emotional inner world and intuitive body wisdom by slowing down, making space, and tuning into the tenderness, intensity, and beauty of every moment.
On the arts end, Amy is a Los Angeles trained actor with a B.A. in television/film production. On the wellness end, she has taught yoga (E-RYT 500) and connective/somatic movement for the past 7 years. She weaves these modalities together creating an integrated experience for the whole body, mind and spirit.
Her greatest dance practices/inspirations: GAGA, Ecstatic Dance, Soul Motion, 5 Rhythms, Fusion/Micro Fusion, Contact Improvisation, Open Floor, Dancing Freedom, and everything Anna Halprin.
https://www.amyrogg.com
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1661 Tennessee Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
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