Body Skills 001: Dance Lifts (Playful Sincerity Events)
The first workshop in the new Body Skills series.
Body Skills is a new workshop series focused on practical, learnable skills for working with the body—how we move, coordinate, support one another, and build trust through physical experience.
Rather than choreography or performance, Body Skills explores the underlying mechanics and principles that make movement feel safer, easier, and more expressive across many contexts.
This first session, Partnering & Lifts, introduces foundational skills from Contact Improvisation and partner dance, with a focus on lifting and being lifted in ways that are efficient, responsive, and collaborative.
Hosted by Wisdom Happy, the workshop breaks down lifting not as strength or technique alone, but as a set of transferable skills rooted in physics, awareness, and communication.
Together, we’ll explore:
how counter-pressure and leverage reduce effort and increase stability
how to use momentum and timing instead of force
how prediction and listening make partnering feel intuitive
ways to approach lifting that prioritize safety, trust, and consent
an exploration of masculine and feminine dynamics as patterns of giving, receiving, initiating, and responding—without rigid roles or expectations
The session is taught through guided exercises and playful experimentation, with options to observe or participate at your own pace. No prior dance experience is required.
This is not about looking good or getting it “right.”
It’s about learning how bodies work together—and how that knowledge carries into movement, connection, and everyday life.
This event is hosted at the Frontier Tower:
We are transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village—a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.
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Why should I become a citizen?
Be part of creating the first self-governed vertical village
Connect with the most creative people in the city
Get access to all floors, free event space & movement floor
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