Hi everybody,
we invite you to spend 4-beautiful days in the Croatian coast side with the exploration of our inner ecosystem that are reflected back through nature.
PROGRAM
Dance Ecosystems in an creative self expression and body-mind orientated retreat, that will invite you to explore your own physical, psychological, mental, emotional and environmental systems that influence your sense of being and perception.
We will focus on the environments, and how natural laws and different elements influence our movement and dance, help us to move, react and embrace our inner world. This topic will be explored through Contact Improvisation, Somatic Practice, BodyStorytelling approach and Aquatic water bodywork.
In an ecosystem everything is interconnected, we will play on the relation between us and the environment to keep the dancespace open and connective relational oriented.
What is AQUATIC WATER BODYWORK
We will integrate in our practice also Aquatic Bodywork, so we will play with the floating quality that open us up to new movement possibilities and new ways to relate to the world.
Starting taking consciousness and explore the water element, we will start discovering it from a different point of view. Then we will dive into this new world, where gravity and time have have another meaning.
And like proficient astronauts we will sense the joy and the pleasure that the water element can give us.
What is CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation is an improvised dance form based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.
What is BODYSTORYTELLING
BodyStorytelling is an approach, that connects our psychological aspects (such as beliefs, inner images about ourselves, values etc.), our emotional body and our present moving experience while dancing,moving, interacting or just witnessing others.
The main purpose is to bring more awareness into our body sensations and with soft presence observe what is the source of our movement. How can that be resonating with our every-day life experiences and behaviour.
We want to open the doors for expression that is playful and unforced. During this movement improvisation, we explore our sense of self, of our body, emotional and mental balance, focus attention (that can be directed differently towards ourselves or the environment) and explore our perception of the space and our understanding of it.
What is SOMATIC PRACTICE
A somatic practise is a journey into what we use to call "body", a journey in wich we are both the explorers and the land we immagine to explore. A somatic practise gently relate to the present moment in order to experience a creative and prolific dialogue between ourselves, the others and the environments we're living in. Every living-being has its own direction, a rythm, a living cycle, a vibration, a texture, tendencies to slip or to join: each different movement creates the shapes and therefore the functions of our body-architecture.
TIMETABLE
THURSDAY - 13th July
18.00 Welcome and subscription
19.00 Opening circle
20.30 - Warm Up + JAM
FRIDAY - 14th July
8.00 - Breakfast
10.00 - Class
12.30 - Lunch
15.00 - Class
17.30 - Beach time
20.00 - Dinner
21.00 - JAM
SATURDAY - 15th July
8.00 - Breakfast
10.00 - Class
12.30 - Lunch
15.00 - Class
17.30 - Beach time
20.00 - Dinner
21.00 - JAM
SUNDAY - 16th July
8.00 - Breakfast
10.00 - Class
12.30 - Lunch
15.00 - Class
17.30 - Closing circle
after - Beach time
WHERE
The workshop will take place at "Theatre in the Woods", a wonderful place close to Rovigno, Croazia
FOOD
The breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the timetable will be provided by the organization team.
The food will be vegetarian.
Write us if you have any kind of allergy or intolerance.
SLEEP
It will be possible to sleep in the tents where we will have our workshops or in the dance space.
Bring your own sleeping bag and mattress.
TRAINERS
Nayeli - ŠPELA PETERLIN (Slovenia)
Nayeli Spela Peterlin is group facilitator and psychologist. Her background comes for sport, teamwork exploration and personal development trainer. As passionate movement researcher and contact improvisation dancer, she is constantly exploring and reflecting apon the relation between dance and life.
She is mainly working on the field of personal development, using different movement techniques (such as improvisational dance, acro yoga, counter balance exercises, soft- skills and non formal education approach - kinesthetic learning, body work etc.) and leading workshops and trainings where she can empower and supporting people to self expression and exploration.
Her main focus of work is on Awareness (Of the Body, Mind and Emotions), mechanisms of Self reflection and bodywork. In the workshops, she combines psychological knowledge, concepts and theories with self- expressive movement methods.
BENAMIN IBRY (Italy)
Benjamin is a mover, a Craniosacral therapist and a Body-Mind Centering student. His research is influenced by the work of Dominique Degranges and Jaap Wan der Val. Recently he has been working on proprioception and kinesthetic fluidity in the water and in the air.
DAVIDE CASIRAGHI (Italy-Slovenia)
Davide Casiraghi is a dancer, Contact Improvisation teacher and Yoga Alliance certified teacher based in Slovenia.
He is exploring Contact Improvisation since 2010. His study is started in Milan and continue in Europe with the many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences.
He see CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, explore curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.
In Slovenia he is co-founder with Nayeli Spela Peterlin of Movement Research LAB Project and organizer of Sunday Contact Jam in Ljubljana:
http://movementresearch-slovenia.weebly.com/
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For more info contact us on:
info@moave.si
http://www.moave.si/
or
davide.casiraghi@gmail.com
www.contactimprov.it
Davide +39 333 6738420
Nayeli: 00386 40 201 613
Looking forward to meet you.