contemporary dance
Dance is one of the ancient, bodily ways of expressing our inner world through movement.
This is a space of uncertainty and unpredictability, when we do not know what will happen in the next moment. But in order to navigate the heart of this process, we need to know some destinations, have a map and an alphabet with us in order to communicate with clarity and confidence. The main focus of the practice is to harmoniously combine your inner sense of movement with physical vocabulary, to awaken individual creativity. Participants will explore several topics that will help them connect with space, music, gravity, contemporary dance technique, floorwork and other tools that will enrich the dancer's skills.
THEMES
This is a space of uncertainty and unpredictability, when we do not know what will happen in the next moment. But in order to navigate the heart of this process, we need to know some destinations, have a map and an alphabet with us in order to communicate with clarity and confidence. The main focus of the practice is to harmoniously combine your inner sense of movement with physical vocabulary, to awaken individual creativity. Participants will explore several topics that will help them connect with space, music, gravity, contemporary dance technique, floorwork and other tools that will enrich the dancer's skills.
THEMES
- Moving in cooperation with gravitational force
- Following the direction of the momentum
- State of resistance and state of relaxation
- Connections of isolation and integrity
- Developing creativity through improvisational tasks
- Feeling the Influence of speed, time and space
- "Paper Body" games
- Group work through the principles of Play-Fight Practice
- Dialogue between gentleness and precision
PAPER BODY
I started developing this workshop format in 2020 during my first online courses on improvisation. And by 2024, this has grown into a full-fledged process that aims to create a vulnerable space by reading our habits of controlling spontaneity and desires to "reach and complete" through the language of the movement.
Playing with gravity teaches us to build a dialogue with what we do not know and improvisation is a process of not knowing the next step. We can't improvise with ideas of "how it's going to be." Then we will be in the idea of the future and will always be much earlier than the "now" movement.
The falling leaf process is a pure reflection of our state of body and mind, which opens up an honest field for development and observation of our blocks. Through this practice, we can mentally and physically participate in the surprising improvisational flow without losing interest in creativity, play and connection with other people. The main quality of this process is how playfully, gently and still precise we can accept the challenge, the unknown of spontaneity and the new sensations of adaptation of body and mind in the moment.
Playing with gravity teaches us to build a dialogue with what we do not know and improvisation is a process of not knowing the next step. We can't improvise with ideas of "how it's going to be." Then we will be in the idea of the future and will always be much earlier than the "now" movement.
The falling leaf process is a pure reflection of our state of body and mind, which opens up an honest field for development and observation of our blocks. Through this practice, we can mentally and physically participate in the surprising improvisational flow without losing interest in creativity, play and connection with other people. The main quality of this process is how playfully, gently and still precise we can accept the challenge, the unknown of spontaneity and the new sensations of adaptation of body and mind in the moment.
During the practice, we would like to keep open the questions:
• Is it possible to build a dialogue with what we do not know?
• How can we adapt at the moment of creation?
• Is the relaxed mind directing the body in a completely different direction of the flow?
• Does the presence in the form of a body with a formless consciousness give the perception of free movement?
• Is it necessary to challenge your patterns to explore yourself in motion more deeply, or is it a comfortable enough continuation of familiar skills?
• Is it possible to build a dialogue with what we do not know?
• How can we adapt at the moment of creation?
• Is the relaxed mind directing the body in a completely different direction of the flow?
• Does the presence in the form of a body with a formless consciousness give the perception of free movement?
• Is it necessary to challenge your patterns to explore yourself in motion more deeply, or is it a comfortable enough continuation of familiar skills?
upcoming events
Movement workshop in Barcelona
Insired by Fighting Monkey, Play-Fight Practice and The Attentive Act
16 - 20 September 2024 / 9:00 - 14:00
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_QC5hNqfEH/
Insired by Fighting Monkey, Play-Fight Practice and The Attentive Act
16 - 20 September 2024 / 9:00 - 14:00
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_QC5hNqfEH/