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What world do you want to move through?

Parcon Resilience: Getting in touch with a moving collective you.

CO-CREATE A MOVEMENT!
WEDNESDAY NIGHT Parcon Resilience Class
WEDNESDAY NIGHT Parcon Resilience Class

Get in touch with a moving collective you!

Open for all abilities and ages — teenagers and up.

BIPOC Contact Improvisation Jams and Long Table
BIPOC Contact Improvisation Jams and Long Table

Special Thanks to Eva Yaa Asantewaa for curating us to develop the conversation at Gibney

Across Generations: Seniors
Across Generations: Seniors

Parcon Resilience with Senior Centers in East Harlem, NYC, NY 10029

ACTIONS and Activist Support
ACTIONS and Activist Support

@ the Marion Sims statue in East Harlem (white gynecologist who experimented on slave women).

Liberation practices for Dance and Theater companies
Liberation practices for Dance and Theater companies

Joya Powell and Movement of the People Dance Company .Nov 2018

 
 

Lean into possibility, listen with your moving self, and create with the community

Parcon Resilience

 
 
 
 

Stay in Process with us @andrewsuseno & @Parconworld on IG

OUR NEW LOGO!!!!!! I am so excited. Special gratitude thunderclap to Kimberly Tate and Victoria Lee for their amazing design work! Awesome! YES!!!! This will lead us to take our outreach to the next level!
Thank you Nelson Gutierrez(the tall guy) for your tireless support of seniors at La Corsi center.😃 You are the one who took the risk to have Parcon at La Corsi when others were hesitant. And we have had so much fun since!!! Thank you for your continued love and support! And you passion and dedication!!! We are sad 😢 that you have to leave La Corsi. Good luck and may you find resonance in your next locale of work! Keep in touch!
Offered a piece of mango and water to the ancestors today with my son. Remembering Opa Malang's laughter and his huge avacado tree in their backyard with avacados the size of a head...no joke! Black and indigenous and any person of color contact improvisation jam is Sunday, tomorrow night at 208 n 8th St in Williamsburg , 11211. We will make an altar and dance with our shared energies. Please bring a small item, photo, offering or oral story to place on the altar. For more info please visit the link in the bio.
Thank you Kimberly Tate for opening up your wonderful teaching space at the New School for us to practice Parcon Resilience on this rainy stormy night!!! And thank you Darryl Padilla for filming us! I am excited to see what you create!
We went to see STOMP with my Jefferson Seniors today as a field trip through the Su Casa, LMCC program. Anything can make music, even the kitchen sink! Literally! And what teamwork! What an awesome show!
POC affinity group is a critical space for building trust, vulnerable sharing and letting go! I learned how to protect mine and our energy and time this week while digging into the embodied somatic justice work together with white allies at Earthdance through Fissure. The next BIPOC NYC jam will be Sunday June 2nd (6:30-8:30pm)@ MNDFL- 208 N8th street, 11211
Began working with Sebastian Rojas Thursday as a pilot trainee for Parcon Resilience in working with seniors. They loved you Sebastian! I am looking forward to seeing how your connection with them grows.
Come jump around with us! Wednesday 6:30-9:30pm @ the Nelson a Rockefeller Park, NYC. Our theme for exploration this night is chosen and imposed racial identity grouping through the practice of Parcon Resilience. In particular POC vs BIPOC, but we will explore all. www.parconrc.org or message me to join
Special thanks to Eva Yaa Asantewaa for curating me to host a BIPOC Long Table Dec 4th, 2019 @ Gibney. The event is open to BIPOC only (see the bottom of the flyer). And the topic is where are we as people of color in relation to contact improvisation. I am excited to build and support the community through Jams over the next year with my fellow Long Table core participants: Mayfield Brooks, Julianne Carino, and Ishmael Houston Jones! If you are BIPOC or know of others, please share energy and love with us, wrestle together in our collective self-determination around CI, and most importantly, come and dance!
At the heart of the power fist is people in relationship! Tim Otterness scupltures @ Nelson A Rockefeller.
This Wednesday (5/8), from 6:30-9:30, Parcon Resilience has a special focus on the lenses of Body and Touch with a shout out to bodyworkers and those interested in integrating their healing touch toward collective consciousness building and  social justice. The location is 100 Grand St, the Bill Young Dance studios, NYC, NY. Please click on the link in the bio to register.
 
 
 

Parcon Resilience is an organization dedicated to undoing racism in the world by starting with concrete relationships in the body through movement and touch to one’s own context, to others and to the environment. The work is funded by grants, workshops fees and donations from friends and community like you. We are dedicated to making Parcon Resilience a vehicle for all people to transform their embodied realities to the world. Your contributions help us to build the work with marginalized communities. We are currently fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Thank you! 

 

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Movement

   By Ione L. Lewis
 

Moving around not sure where my body is going to take me

Trusting myself and not having to worry about how I look

just focused on moving to the groove of my on beat

Not having to worry about boundaries within my walls

For the longest time I felt restricted and powerless in my own body

Not feeling that I had the strength or the ability to move the way I wanted

Now I feel strong, free and alive

Adding a person to my movement is kinda of scary

I have to trust them, I don't trust easy

We have to move together and listen to each other's rhythm

My balance is not so great, I may need some assistance

Will they hold me up and catch me before I fall

This awkward C.P. body, who will understand the way it moves

Who will be able to move with me and pick up my rhythm

It actually happened I was able to move with other people and trust myself

as well as them, I let go and let my my body lead me

Rolling around on a rough surface of earth, afraid of falling on my face or head

as I gripped onto the rock

Pushing my body up at first I stumbled, that's normal on unfamiliar surfaces

Finally I'm on my hands in knees 

Wow, now someone is holding me up and I'm flipping over their back

Up in the air I never felt a rush like this

moving together side by side, feeling each other's energy and movements

Communicating through touch is amazing

Feeling what we may be thinking without a single word

Knowing when to start, stop or continue with just moving my body

Feeling free and alive, now I can not stop 

Moving!