A workshop by Vancouver-based dancer, choreographer and facilitator Lee Su-Feh.
Radical Tenderness introduced participants to Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a somatic approach to voice that invites an integrated experience of self in breath, body and voice. It combines adaptations of classical voice training techniques with modifications of yoga, bioenergetics and many other body-centred disciplines. This integration serves to harmonize the voluntary and involuntary aspects of the nervous system and breath; leading to voices that can communicate intention and feeling without excess effort.
The workshop also introduced participants to an algorithm or set of instructions Su-Feh has been working on in recent years called Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go (TMHMLMG). As she describes, "TMHMLMG is an algorithm for dancing with the planet... I use the word algorithm as a way to provide an alternative to the more opaque algorithms in our devices and on the internet; algorithms that increasingly mediate our relationships to one another. I offer TMHMLMG as a reminder of the older technologies and wisdoms in our bodies. I offer it as an invitation towards relating to one another and to non-humans in ways that are gentler and hopefully, more sustainable than the ways of the current world."
In conjunction with the workshop, Su-Feh also presented a lecture performance of TMHMLMG at Five Arts Centre in February 2023.
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