Magic Maids: Broomology 101 with Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera

Call for Participation:
Magic Maids: Broomology 101
with Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera

Movement Workshop
7th July & 8th July
10am – 1pm 
With a Lunch Break discussion on the 8th hosted by the Society, Work and Politics institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand from 1:30pm – 3pm

The workshop will be held at:
Moving into Dance Trust,10 President St, Johannesburg

RSVP by 25 June: landlabourlife@gmail.com
The workshop is free, however booking is essential as space is limited

About the workshop: 
Physicality & Utterances In this workshop, we use the broom as a central axis connecting the archetypes of the witch and the housemaid. It serves as a tool for playful transformation and somatic exploration. We will: – Explore what it means to extend oneself through the broom, becoming one with it, becoming wild – Reclaim gossiping as a practice of female solidarity and knowledge – Use laughing and howling to release, reclaim, rejoice and reconnect with the primal – Explore the power of intention through movement and collective utterance.
No experience required. Bring a broom!!  

About the Lunch Break:
The lunch break marks a pause in the working day … a time for rest from production … for forms of exchange not, yet, for-profit… for relations to be, but, in common, often shaped by reciprocities … learned at home … not work … but, yet work that matters to be … differently …

Hosted by the Society, Work and Politics institute, the Lunch Break will take place on the 8th of July, with participants of the workshop. Linking the experiences of colonisation, capitalist forms of the gendered division of labour, the production of the migrant labour system and witch hunts is the dispossession of land and enclosure of the commons. Centring the work of Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera and the themes of Magic Maids, the SWOP lunch break will be a space of open discussion with choreographers and the workshop participants around ongoing forms of dispossession, the possibilities of the common and a different yet to come… 

The workshop is hosted in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is supported by the National Arts Festival, Moving into Dance and the Society, Work and Politics institute.