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Gender Bender Recess Workshop Weekend
Paradise Ballroom
Portland, OR
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Gender Bender Recess Workshop Weekend
Vision Statement: At the Gender Bender Recess Workshop Weekend we are not only challenging, encouraging, and empowering social dancers to step outside of their normal gendered role on the dance floor, but by introducing new techniques and concepts we will bring into question the very need for a gender-binary in partner dancing.

Rather than creating Leads that follow, Follows that lead, or Fleads and Lollows (insert your colloquial binary-driven pronoun of choice) we will develop partner dancers who have the ability to be both speakers (traditional lead role) and listeners (traditional follow role); or even better to be receptive speakers and listeners, interjecting and affirming.

Many of the workshops will be led in like-gender groups. This will allow primary leads to perfect follow/listener-specific skills with an experienced lead, and similarly allow primary follows to hone lead/speaker-specific skills with an experienced follow.

Time for group discussion and processing will be available in the "Activist Track" as we work on ourselves as dancers, as a community, and as people attempting to cultivate a less-gendered world.

Curriculum: For most of the weekend, there will be three workshops, one in each of the following topics.

   Following Workshops: Designed for primary leads developing following skills.
   Leading Workshops: Designed for primary follows honing leading skills.
   Activist Workshops: Discussion and interactive workshops addressing larger cultural and community issues such as homophobia, consent, and the sexualization of dance. There will also be personal sharing sessions as well as breakout action groups with a trained facilitators.

Additionally, blues-lab/peer-review style workshops will be offered during the course of the recess.

The curriculum is formatted so that the dancers can shape the weekend as they like. If someone wants to focus on their non-dominant dance role all weekend, they can. If someone is more interested in enacting social change within the dance scene, they can do that as well.

Environment: We will dance until the early morning hours Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights and workshop all day Saturday and Sunday in cool Portland venues. Out-of-towners will hosted by local Portland dancers, and community events will be planned to help make the Gender Bender Recess Weekend have the community-centered feel of other Recess events.

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Paradise Ballroom (View)
826 SE Belmont St
Portland, OR 97214
United States
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Carolyn S.
merion, PA United States
May 20, 2012 1:22 PM
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Seattle, WA United States
May 17, 2012 10:57 PM
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Seattle, WA United States
May 17, 2012 10:08 PM
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Youngstown, OH United States
May 17, 2012 9:07 PM
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Kingston, WA United States
May 17, 2012 6:40 PM

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