The vital forces of silence and dance – Fabio Rotondo
“Black. Silence. Dark and quiet, the absence of everything, of lights and sounds. The fascination of emptiness, of nothingness in which one can get lost, regenerate and transform.” I like to look at silence as a sacred place, which favors inner listening and the perception of self; a place in which to cultivate a practice […]
Active boredom – Catalin Diaconu
Getting bored with my movement patterns… getting bored with “I lift you, you lift me” CI dances… getting bored with this phrase… getting bored with getting bored… Jokes aside, which I for sure love, I think patterns are great (when I’m not their prisoner), lifts are great (when they make sense), and boredom… if I […]
Enough space to arrive and enough silence to hear – Nayeli Špela
As autumn has arrived, also stillness is becoming very present in my movement practice. In the last years, It has become more and more clear to me that stillness doesn’t necessarily mean no external movement. Many times, as paradoxes work, it is quite the opposite. I see stillness as a time-space dimension of presence. In […]
Trusting the silence – Leonardo Lambruschini
“Animals and trees teach how not to know, how to tolerate being in the world without the obsession to understand. They know how to surrender, they know and teach a primary and radical trust” – Chandra CandianiDuring the intensive we will give space to silence to bring stillness into the movement and broaden the perception […]
Linus and Emelie
Linus and Emelie are two professional musicians and sound healing practitioners fromSweden.Emelie has been studying classical percussion and chamber music at Örebrouniversity in Sweden and is now freelancing with different artist and projects.Linus has been studying drums since childhood but changed his course five years ago to become fully dedicated to bansuri and Indian classical […]
Circle – Nayeli Špela
A circle is a place where our dance continues and we witness each other through another chanell. We still improvise and we also allow ourselves to reach and be reached with what is present and alive in us, around us, within us, outside of us. If we allow our bones to speak,… what would they […]
Just dancing – Steve Batts
I understand Contact Improvisation to be, in a very simple way, just dancing. I don’t really separate it from the rest of my dancing. My own “definition” of Contact Improvisation is: “The exploration of the limits and possibilities of moving with poetic intent, but without a plan, in close proximity with other people, and the […]
When I wake up I need you – Nathaniel Damon
When I wake I’m wanting youWhen I wake I’m needing youWhen I wake I’m so lonelyWanting youWhen I wake I’m wanting youWhen I wake I’m needing you soWhen I’m fallingI am falling into your armsWhen I wake I’m needing youI’m loving youI’m falling into your armsWhen I wake I’m in your loveI’m in your loveI’m […]
The state of improvisation – Angela-Mara Florant
Silence and the state of contemplative dance are keys for diving into deep improvisation. Using these methods helps our movements to truly be rooted in the present moment. The softness and flexibility of this state of mind opens the tissues of our bodies and we become more flexible and yielding. The softening of the body […]
Il corpo nel silenzio – Michele Marchesani
A body that recognizes silence is not just any being, it moves knowing that it is violating a space. It decides to break what surrounds it with the certainty that it will always be given consent, availability. The skin is the first to feel it. Always attentive to the border, it divides what is inside […]