A Day of Dance

Dance Fusion at the Southampton Cultural Center will hold an open dance workshop led by Jody Oberfelder, a director, choreographer, and filmmaker, from 3 to 4:45 p.m. on Saturday. A performance by Ms. Oberfelder’s company of “The Brain Piece,” a choreographed union of movement, film, neuroscience, and sound, will follow at 6.

The workshop, for ages 9 and up, will involve improvisation and an exploration of how ideas lead to movement and movement leads to ideas. Participants will construct a vocabulary from intuition and instinct and learn the skills to articulate it. The intention of “The Brain Piece,” according to Ms. Oberfelder, is to allow the audience “to experience dance as a language that goes directly into the brain, like smell.” Her collaborators include three dancers, Eric Siegel, who is a film director, three composers, a neuroscientist, and a pianist. 

Tickets to the performance are $40, $20 for students 21 and under. Participants in the workshop, which costs $35, can attend the performance for free if 21 and under. For adult workshop participants, performance tickets are $20.