Company members from Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers will lead this engaging lecture-demonstration that invites participants to explore improvisational movement and discover the power of following their own physical impulses. Blending guided instruction with creative exploration, the program will be accessible to movers of all ages and experience levels. 

Inspired by Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks, the session incorporates a selection of shoes as catalysts for imagination and motion. Together, we’ll consider prompts such as: If you were wearing this shoe, how might you put it on? What activity might you do in it? How might your body move differently because of it? Through these playful inquiries, participants will experiment with gesture, posture, and expressive movement. Wellspring’s facilitators will demonstrate core improvisational techniques while encouraging community members to join in at their own comfort level. By the end of the program, attendees will leave with a deeper awareness of their own creative instincts—and the joy that comes from letting movement tell a story. 

Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum, and curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum.