Registration is rolling until April 16 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due April 11 at 5PM EST).

$250 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

4 week class: Tuesdays 6-8PM EST, April 23, 2024- May 14, 2024

Students will examine how movement, performance, and dance enrich the poet's capacities as a writer. We will work with media (writing, performance, moving performance, etc) that utilize dance and corporeal translations to bring narrative worlds forward. This workshop is for anyone who wants to practice active embodied writing, for writers who crave a deeper relationship to their body in motion but struggle with direction, and also movement artists who struggle to write about their practice or struggle to write in general. Participants will complete one written work and one movement practice that is derivative from our time together in this workshop.

ANGEL SHANEL EDWARDS (they/them) is a blackqueerandtrans first-generation Jamaican and Philly-rooted artist. They utilize the creative modalities of movement, poetics, filmmaking, and photography to witness and re/member blackness as it moves through daily life, love, intimacy, and transitions [*gendered and otherwise]. angel is being moved and led by the cartographies of black life. They have learned from and worked alongside of many artists from around the world: Makini m Poe, Kameelah Rasheed, Yuchen Chang, Yolanda Wisher, Arielle Julia Brown, Marguerite Hemmings, Ishmael Houston Jones, and Jonathan Gonzalez, to name a few. These artists have shaped and informed the work they put into the world.