Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King invite you to a YSDT: Play workshop for all levels of movers.

YSDT believes technique is a means of furthering our bodies as instruments for creative expression. By pushing the exploration of physicality, space, and relationships (to people and objects) and how our thought process guides these physical manifestations, technique allows us to better articulate emotion in the service of narrative.

This process-driven workshop is rooted in the following core values:

• Facilitating an environment of imagination/play in order to help participants make connections and find new solutions for problems inside and outside of the classroom.
• Validating the individual through empowered choice-making.
• Modeling the power of collective action by honoring diverse perspectives and a multiplicity of bodies, abilities, and experiences while working together as a group.
• Centering the power of storytelling in pursuit of social justice.