This service will use InterPlay forms–adapted for Zoom–to explore our experience of uncertainty and unknowability in the face of the pandemic. InterPlay is an active, creative way to unleash the wisdom of the body, a mixture of storytelling, improvisation, movement, voice, and dance. Using Breakout rooms and other Zoom features, we will work in pairs and small groups to begin to explore, narrate, and embody our experiences of life in the bardo, in limbo, on the fence (choose your myth or figure for the state of precarious uncertainty) as we wait to see in what form schools and colleges will be reopening in August or September, how long it will be until there is a vaccine, and where and how the pandemic will manifest itself next in the body, in our nation, and in the world.

This service will draw on the creative and spiritual practices of InterPlay. InterPlay is about playing with movement, voice, stillness, and storymaking to refresh our souls, find amusement, and retrieve the wisdom of our bodies. Its incremental forms enable us to bypass our defenses to begin to tap into the experience of embodied creativity. Community based, it plays with the physicality of relationship, learning how to be full in oneself while being with others.