***THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL & CLOSED!***
You are welcome to join for the other workshops during that week with Jules Beckman or Mary Pearson and take part in the witch camp activities that are open to everyone. Witch Camp Week 2 is still open!
WEEK 1
Meg Stuart and special guest Lexa Roséan
Witch camp is a research meeting for performers/ artists interested in questions about alchemy, ritual space, clear energetic transgression, the magic of the performance moment, pagan basics. We will be improvising and dancing as well as guestioning our research and findings. Be prepared to be pushed beyond your limits, for some durational experiences( early early morning rituals or late night gatherings). You should be able to translate the witch work/ research into choreographic or performance principles.
It's witchcraft! Wonderful Wicked and Wise!! Healing and Hexing-positively Sexy- Insightful and perplexing. Fly the broomstick (learn what that actually means) stomp in the mud of the Mother Earth. Explore the elements (earth, air, fire, water) Invoke and channel God and Goddess into the body. Infuse the Divine Spirit into your veins. Witches All - Hear the Call of the Sacred Dance!
Dance has always been sacred to the Witches - a form of spell-casting, magic, energy raising, invocation and/or prayer: The Spiral Dance, The Dance of Demeter, Dance of Dionysus, Jumping the Beltane Fires, dancing around the Maypole, dancing under the full moon… "and as a sign that you are truly free - ye shall be naked in your rites" or robed as the case may be :-) Do what ye will and harm none. Let's have fun exploring all our magickal possibilities.
Lexa (Lady Venus) is a High Priestess and Witch of the neo-Gardnerian and Minoan Traditions of Wicca and was initiated as witch in 1982 although her association with the Goddess goes back much much longer. She is the author of the Supermarket Sorceress series (Das Hexen 1X1), PowerSpells, ZodiacSpells, TarotPower, and The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients. Lexa was voted "Best Witch of NYC" and she will be joining witchcamp as the main witch guest (thrilled at this invitation :-)
I have some specific witchy wonders in mind to initiate you into but I am here for your needs -
Would you like to make a Witches' Bottle? Astral Travel? Get a cleansing? A Tarot Reading? Find out where your artistic points are in your astrology chart? Learn how to cast a spell or find your (familiar) animal spirit? Don't be shy but let your questions fly. Initiates of the Wicca must swear to keep silent and protect the secrets of their craft. They may be revealed only to those properly prepared and within a sacred space. You will be properly prepared and the Ponderosa is our sacred space. I look forward to a magickal embrace of minds, souls, and bodies.
World card is the card of the dance
blessed be
Lexa