MR x DS4SI’s Range of Motion Speaker Series: Beyond the Binary (Practicum)

DS4SI’s Range of Motion Speaker Series: Beyond the Binary (Practicum)

In partnership with Design Studio for Social Intervention, Moving Rasa joined an evening of collective movement, reflection, and somatic inquiry to close out the Range of Motion speaker series.

Led by Andrew Suseno (Moving Rasa), Stephanie Gouilloud (Project South), and Dzidzor Azaglo, participants were invited to step beyond binaries—beyond fight/flight, know/don’t know, right/wrong—into embodied uncertainty.

How do we relate to fascism in our current times? 

Together, we breathed, moved, and slowed down. We placed questions into space—above doors, under stones—so we could feel them differently. Not just think about them, but sense our relationship to them.

We became animals, drawing on their wisdom to repattern out of fear.

We practiced range: big and small, near and far.

We trained the body to feel what it means to be mobilizable—and to stomp and sing for freedom.

Deep gratitude to DS4SI for creating a space where movement becomes method, and somatics become strategy. We are looking forward to future movement building with DS4SI in September!

Here is testimony from our night:

Friday's practicum was disorienting at first because I had no idea of what to expect. My body appreciated how interactive/movement based the activities were. It left me wanting more but also left me feeling spiritually sated (in a way I've never experienced with others).

K, Design Gym Member

... a lot of people were saying how transformative that experience was for them, specifically being in their bodies, but also stepping out of their body into this space that required them to be aware of their movements, but also their feelings, their sensations. That was one of the things I remember from people just coming up to me, saying that was so incredible. I've never been in a space where I felt so present and so moved and so energized and inspired.

A, ds4si staff

There was this choreography between the three guests - it felt like one thing fed into another so beautifully, even though they were very different, three very different experiences and three very different practices looking at any situation.

A, ds4si staff

People were saying afterwards how surprising it was to be moved so smoothly from each of these modes of practice into the next ... moving with Andrew set the stage for being able to have the difficult conversation that Steph led us through, which then grounded the things we wanted to express vocally inside of Dzidzor's invitation ... the sequence was really powerful.

J, ds4si staff

We look forward to returning to continue work with DS4SI in the fall!