feral teaching-> to be a teacher for me means searching, just like we (students) do. Looking for extremes to find new ways of seeing and feeling things.

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WORKSHOP: Emergent Naturecultures: Getting Physical at the Feral Edge, Aug 14, 6:30-9PM, 2018, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 

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We will explore the complex web of relations between the spontaneous life at the feral edges of Red Hook, made up of weeds, dust, discards, and detritus. The edges are traumatized and exploited yet they tend to be places for active interspecies collaboration. How might the sociality of weeds inform our physical presence? If we act as an embedded collective body, do we become part of the topography? We will find sources and resources through our labor, sweat, and the heightening of our senses as choreographer, somatic movement educator and artist Andrea Haenggi initiates movement situations for our bodies to come in contact with non-humans.
All are welcome. No training needed, just a willingness to be physical with the land and possibly each other. We will sit and lie on the sidewalk. Wear comfortable clothes that can handle a little dirt and dust. Workshop Series Curated by Maris Prefer

WORKSHOP SERIES: COLLECTIVE WEED IMPROVISATION JAM/MONTHLY FROM SEPT 2016-MARCH 2017

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andrea haenggi started in fall 2016 in her studio the Collective Weed Improvisation Jam. Every 4th Tuesday of the month, the dance floor of the Urban Weeds Garden at Haenggi’s artist studio at 1067 PacificPeople became a learning lab for cross-pollinate weedy movement practices. The three hour was organized where one hour was a class facilitated by a rotating roster of Weed Facilitators and followed by an open score plant- movement jam. All movement levels were welcome.The Collective Weed Improvisation Jam celebrated the idea of By By By Utopia to explore collective situations to improvise and play, movement as potential for healing and constructing social sculptures with humans and urban wild plants, we call weeds. We were beginning by “planting” together.
Facilitated by andrea haenggi and rotating guest facilitators including Jill Sigman, Catherine Grau, Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Irons and Iele Paloumpis

FORMless Selfies/AT TRANSART BIENNAL, UFERSTUDIOS BERLIN, GERMANY, AUG 5, 2016

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FORMLESS SELFIES: A PROCESS LAB BY ANDREA HAENGGI
By looking through the lens of the ubiquitous selfie we can see without naming, becoming formless and finding pleasure in new states of visual being. Using improvisation, somatic choreographic score instructions and mobile phones as departure strategies we will create and discuss, pushing toward boundaries as movers and thinkers, drawing on each other’s tools to challenge individual identity in an attempt to become formless as a group of Selfies.
Does movement become more important then the form of Self? Why do we love taking and viewing photos of faces? How can we—individually and together—liberate ourselves from our selfies? Do we want to become formless? What kind of formless identities will we create alone, one-to-one and as a group? What does it mean to become formless in the real of selfie-culture?
This Process Lab allows for a dynamic exchange between participants from diverse fields of artistic practice. The workshop will through the use of technological devices bring each of us —and our body and mind—into a formless state that allows new forms to emerge aligning with the idea of The Imperceptible Self. For artists in the field of dance, visual art, improvisation, somatic and new media movement based art. All Levels. Advanced registration is required.