June 2024: Anchor Workshop: The RIGHT to Play with Amrita Dhaliwal

Play is a state that has been discouraged throughout life based on our identities, and for social and economical reasons as well.

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In this workshop, we explored our beliefs and conditionings around play. To be in a state of play, is to be in touch with your pleasure and joy. However, when that has been discouraged, to then dive into our play can provoke a fear response.

In this workshop, we further explored how to increase our capacity for play by regulating our nervous system. Our identities (visible and invisible), play a role in our sense of safety. So we worked with an understanding that power dynamics are always at play and different bodies have different stress responses. This workshop was designed for seasoned performers, as well as folx just beginning.

Amrita Dhaliwal (she/her) is an award-winning Punjabi American comedian, arts leader, educator and devising artist based in Los Angeles, whose work spans multiple mediums, from stage to TV & Film. Her work explores the core themes of humanity, like death and love, through a lens of the current social-political climate.

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