Facilitation

The Open Practice Lab is a series of no-pressure, movement-led sessions that invite artists from across disciplines to come together in a shared space of creative risk, curiosity, and experimentation. Each session explores the very beginnings of collaborative creation—before ideas are fully formed, before outcomes are expected. Through spontaneous collaboration and guided exploration, artists will test ideas, ask questions, and work side by side, all anchored by movement-based practices.

These labs are not about polished results—they are about the raw, generative, uncertain parts of the process where artistic growth truly begins. Early-stage development is essential.

It’s messy, generative, full of risk—and every artist deserves the space to explore that part of their process.

We need more spaces that call for real artistic exploration. Not the ones with long application processes. Not the ones where you have to deliver a polished outcome. We need more spaces that welcome uncertainty. That invite curiosity, failure, risk, and discovery. That hold artists—of all disciplines—with openness and support. Because when we experiment together, new forms emerge. Unexpected connections spark. It’s raw, alive, and full of possibility. This space isn’t about outcomes. It’s about process. And in a world that constantly demands we have it all figured out, we’re choosing something different. 

Performance, sound, visual, crafts, digital, text, narrative—whatever the medium, this space is for artists open to spontaneous, cross-artform collaboration, using movement pracices as the creative medium.

This space is about building a bridge between movement artists and artists working in other art disciplines—something we believe is currently missing. Participants don’t need any experience working with movement practices to take part—just curiosity and a willingness to explore. This is about creative exchange, not technical skill.

Artists will bring an idea—a concept, a question, or just a feeling—and see what happens when it’s interpreted through movement in dialogue with other art forms. 

Artists are also welcome to join as collaborators—responding, improvising, and offering their practice as a tool for someone else to test theirs. 

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