Global Blackness Summer School ‘23 / For Wholeness. Black being well
Self-care dance classes for mums & caregivers - a Mother.Lab project
The Nest Space, 23 7th Ave, Parktown North - RSVP here to join! / www.motherlab.me
Every Friday in November is a call for mothers and caregivers to dance, a historically and contemporary act of freedom through movement and a global Black language without words. Mother.Lab presents Mama Slide as a radical way of performing self-love for mothers and those who do the labour of care for small children. Mama Slide is part of a creative research project called Mother.Lab that centralises mothering as a series of complex acts of the everyday - folded into mothering are notions and acts of care, labour, time, defeat and joy. Keeping in mind the rich Black African and diasporic histories of music and dance and the crucial life giving (and survival) role that music plays in Black family life, these four sessions invite carers, especially mothers, especially mothers of colour, to bring themselves, their babes and to dance with them in a wrap or to leave them to crawl or lay and watch. Mama Slide is an invitation to perform radical care work for and with women who rarely think about what that means for themselves. While the space is open to all, the emphasis is on the mothers and or carers to experience release through their bodies, to flow with the music, to get lost in the safety of dance and sound and movement. It is a small moment, a reprieve, to not be a serving body for someone else while communing with others.
Note: Feel free to bring along your own wrap for your baby. Extra wraps will also be available and some dolls, should you not have a baby to strap to you.
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Session I (3 Nov, 15:00) - Dancing with my babe (facilitated by Lakin Morgan-Baatjies)
Session II (10 Nov, 15:00) Dance & discussion – grounding a radical movement in a radical shape (facilitated by Dee Marco & Lakin Morgan-Baatjies)
Session III (17 Nov, 15:00) Dancing with my babe (facilitated by Dee Marco & Lakin Morgan-Baatjies)
Session IV (24 Nov) Mama Slide Cool Down (facilitated by Dee Marco)
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Click here for the GBSS ‘23 programme