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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

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.
Beautiful night for Parcon Resilience at Nelson A Rockefeller Park in NYC. We supported one another in embodying our values! Come join us Wednesday nights! For more info see the link in the bio!
Colleen, Ione and I will be going to Toronto for the Ontario Contact Improv Jam, where I have taught Parcon for the past few years. It has been the biggest jam in North America, maybe still is? This will be Colleen's first jam! Exciting! We leave Thursday for a 12 hour Megabus ride!
Lutfi! It was so good to reconnect with you after so many years! Your pride, knowledge of history and search for truth of yourself and for the indonesian people is so inspiring to me. You live and breath as a collective We. I am excited to be part of your We and to explore and develop Indo community in NYC!
My son and I went to go watch ZCO/ Dance Project share their work in progress at the Mark Morris Dance space in Brooklyn. It was so nice to see them again! Before I started Parcon I used to dance, create and perform with ZCO. Their heart, love and fire became the foundation for me in understanding physically integrated dance as possible. Good luck with the amazing opportunities coming your way like Judson Church in the fall, and I look forward to creating some more material together in the future! Readers please go to www.zcodanceproject.com to see more of their events AND SUPOORT THEM BY DONATING! 🙂
Rocking the stick today with the seniors at the Jefferson senior center in East Harlem. Special thanks to the Su Casa program administered through the LMCC with public funding from the New York City council, the dept of cultural affairs and the dept of aging. LMCC.net
Thank you Charlotte and Zach for helping to admin and make the Oberlin workshops (apr4-7,2019) run smoothly behind the scenes! I am excited with the clarity and momentum generated in both the white and poc communities and look forward to seeing and feeling the power of these collectives to support community and transform physical and psychological spaces! YES! 🙂Andrew
People of Contact!!! Much love to my POC in all of your fullness.
 
 
 

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!