​The Evolution of Art Creation

Thursday 28th June ~ OPEN DAY

Sixteen people have been working with Javanese movement artist and teacher Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto) over the last week. They have been exploring – in movement – his approach to the evolution of the creative process. In particular, they have been exploring creativity in terms of ‘impulse/expression’ and ‘organisation’. They have also worked with the idea that ‘sitting has movement’ and watering cans.​ ​

​Westhay Farm is the home of Move into Life with Sandra Reeve. Move into Life offers a way to transform our attitudes and values through environmental movement art.​

Thursday 28th June ~ 2.00-5.00pm – at Westhay Farm DT6 6SD

​Please join us in the garden at Westhay to witness our work and for a chance to join in a free movement session with Prapto. Please park in the National Trust Stonebarrow Park and take the footpath down to Westhay Farm. Arrive any time after 1.45pm. Lifts up and down can be arranged – please contact Sandra. If you want to join the session with Prapto, please bring a watering can.

Thursday 28th June ~ 7.30-9.30pm – 
​at Wootton Fitzpaine Village Hall DT6 6ND

The Open Day continues in the evening at Wootton Fitzpaine village hall. Prapto, with colleagues who have worked with him for many years, will offer a number of short pieces. Please arrive any time after 7.00pm.
Prapto:                            Sitting in Time
Frances Mezzetti          Whose Feet Anyway? Lucia (Joyce) in Broad Daylight
Pam Woods:                  Unforeseen
Sandra Reeve & Joanne Woolgar        Are You Endangered?
Ibed Surgana Yuga:     Fossil Garden
Judy Cole                        Olayherlay

Both events are free of charge. If you can, please email to say that you are coming or to arrange a lift in the afternoon:
Move into Life with Sandra Reeve ~ 01297 560511 ~ [email protected]

See the pdf of the poster for this Open Day.

Workshop details

with SUPRAPTO SURYODARMO
Creator of Joged Amerta Movement

24th-29th June, 2018 ~
​The garden at Westhay, Charmouth, Dorset 
The Village Hall at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset

This is a wonderful opportunity to work with Prapto in Southwest England. Prapto pays attention to movement as your being rather than as something you do and this refreshing perspective offers new insights into movement as an approach to life and as an art form.

​The workshop will take place in a wild movement garden on the cliffs above Charmouth and in a local Arts & Crafts village hall.
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As Prapto says:

"Joged Amerta is a movement practice that arises from the view of art.

My whole approach in Joged Amerta is one of relax, of the Being Breathing and of giving time and space for blossoming.

Creation is never-ending and has the quality of blossoming in the garden. I put myself in creation itself as evolution, rather than creativity being one part of evolution.

Joged Amerta exists for each person to find through movement their own Being-in-Creation in the pool of life and sharing what they have, like Sharing Garden Movement."

A movement question to prepare for this 6-day workshop:

"Sometimes movement is flat - it has no nuance, no sensing, no impulse and our receiving of the world and of the other remains flat. How can we wake up our recognition in the pool of life, wake up our understanding, our awareness and our sensorimotor life so that we can feel not flat?"
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This workshop is open to all. 

Maximum: 12 people.

Workshop Fee (excluding food and accommodation): £375 approx. (Deposit to secure a place £100; balance due on arrival.)

Accommodation:  If you would like to share self-catering accommodation, you need to send in a deposit for the workshop and let me know your preference: twin or single room - by the end of February at the latest as cottages book up quickly. Sharing accommodation is the cheapest option (about the same as a campsite) - and will cost around £100 for the week.

I can also provide you with accommodation lists (including campsites) - or check airbnb and the Charmouth accommodation website.

For further information, contact Sandra Reeve.

Prapto’s full international programme can be found here. 

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