● group format
Movement, dance, improvisation
class formats & topics
philosophy, for life and dance
Actually, i am quite different. i just rarely get round to it.
Ödön von Horváth
Somatic dance workshops
Let’s create something meaningful together
what they are
A workshop lasts between 75 and 150 minutes and is designed to have participants glide into the body by means of playful, low-threshold movement tasks.
The topic of a workshop can range from “catch & fall” over “communication” to “inhabiting a water body”.
Participants work either on an individual or a group level, in most cases a mix of both. Sessions may involve partner exercises with touch and without.
No matter what the focus is, they will always be a journey that very gently guides the participants from their headspace into a sphere of exploration and moment-to-moment awareness that allows for unique ways of getting into touch with the experience of having, and being, a body.
The trajectory starts with sensation- and imagination-oriented proposals for shifting the focus while these serve also as a physical warm-up. The main part of exercises, scores and games elicit innate creativity and expression of each mover. This invites to let loose. Before the end of the workshop everyone will slowly come back to themselves, be guided to find time and space to unwind and ground themselves.
Some of the tools employed Some of the elements explored Some of the principles introduced, and effects reported by participants- awarenesss of the breath and breathing spaces- Inviting the senses- Imagery? visualisation- Primal movement, locomotion- Self-touch- Focusing- Free dance- Contact improvisation- Various movement qualities
“What I am after isn’t flexible bodies but flexible brains.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
- Open focus- Acceptance (of what is)- Spontaneity- Acknowledgment without judgment- Noticing without concluding- Nervous system regulation ( auto- and coregulation)- Dropping (from agitation and activity) into being- Shift from rumination to emptiness- Joy, inner peace- Deeper sense of trust- shift from holding to releasing, letting go- Unity, connection- Time, Space, Speed, Zoom- Qualities of touch- Rhythm- Weight and gravity- Communication, intra- and interpersonal- Instant composition- Coordination- Observation- Balance- Reaction- Walking, lying down, sitting- Group dynamics