Oracular Bodies:
Channelling Movement and Energy

A three-day Mystery School
master workshop with Meg Stuart

PRESENTED BY THE BITING SCHOOL
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EDAM

AUGUST 12, 13, 14, 2025

at EDAM - 303 E 8th Ave

Please direct questions about attending to The Biting School at: thebitingschool@gmail.com

Oracular Bodies: Channeling Movement and Energy
A three-day Mystery School master workshop with Meg Stuart

PRESENTED BY THE BITING SCHOOL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EDAM

In this immersive workshop, you are invited to step into the liminal space where the body is an oracle, and movement a conduit for unseen forces. Drawing from somatic practices, improvisation, energy work, and divinatory traditions, Oracular Bodies explores how we can receive, interpret, and embody transpersonal messages beyond language. Through guided improvisations, trance states, and collective lucid dreaming, participants will playfully engage with movement as divination-channelling impulses from within and with each other. We will experiment with energetic transmissions, vocal resonance, and spontaneous composition, using the body as a site of revelation.

This workshop is for dancers and performers with a minimum of 4 years of professional experience who are interested in merging movement with intuition, ritual, and altered states of presence. Please come with a willingness to listen, move with and surrender to the unknown.

The workshop will be accompanied by Doug Weiss and Alex Mah.

Schedule:

• Tuesday, August 12, 2025: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

• Wednesday, August 13, 2025: 10 am - 4:30 pm

• Thursday, August 14, 2025: 10 am to 5 pm

Participants must be able to attend all three sessions.

What to wear:

• Comfortable clothes that you can move and slide in (we recommend long sleeves and full-length pants, as they are helpful for sliding on the floor)

• Wear minimal jewellery

• Bring knee pads (optional/personal preference). EDAM sells knee pads ($35). Email info@edamdance.org if you'd like to purchase a pair. 

• EDAM is a scent-reduced space. Please help us keep the studio odour-free.

MEG STUART is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to large-scale choreographies, video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects. Recent creations include steal you for a moment (2024) and GLITCH WITCH (2024). Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them. 

She passes down her knowledge through regular workshops and master classes in- and outside of the studio. In 2025, with the support of Forum Dança, she organises the first edition of the ‘Mystery School’, an unconventional and experimental studies programme for performing artists. Meg Stuart received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. www.damagedgoods.be

DOUG WEISS: I was born in Chicago and raised musically in New York City. Over a 30 year career, I have followed the belief that musical virtuosity is about playing what the music needs. From my root teachers Al Foster, Eddie Henderson, George Coleman, Lee Konitz, Clifford Jordan, Lew Tabakin, Joe Williams, Norman Simmons, and Harold Mabern, I have soaked in the lessons of how to speak the language. I bring myself with open ears and heart, and my experiences with those masters, to the table when I play. Following in the footsteps of my mentors Rufus Reid and Todd Coolman I became an active educator and advocate, teaching workshops around the world. I am currently teaching in Maastricht at the Conservatory of Music. I was Professor at SUNY Purchase College, and The New School University, and guest Professor of Kontrabaß at the Jazz Institut Berlin.

ALEX MAH is an interdisciplinary artist, composer-musician, and performer in dance. He lives and practices on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His electroacoustic music investigates time and timbre and his written music explores embodied concepts such as chance, choice, and relationality in performance. He has performed in Canada, the U.S., and Germany and holds a BFA from SFU (Canada) and an MRes from Bath Spa University (U.K.) under James Saunders.