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 […]
Beginner’s Mind – Lior Ophir
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few” Shunryu Suzuki Towards the upcoming autumn contact silence retreat I was asked again to write a short text. Reading what I had written towards what was my first contact silence retreat in Gaia Terra last January, and reflecting towards the […]
All you find is you – Nina Radovanovic
Once a friend told me “You are so weird, you either go to those strange festivals whereeverybody touches everybody (referring of course to CI events) or you go to those foreigntemples where you have to keep quiet the whole day (referring to my Vipassana retreats)”.I was so happy to find out that I can combine […]
Who moves who? – Roberto Bellatalla
https://www.contactsilence.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Gana-Bellatalla-Duo-VICINO-LONTANO-2022-II.mp4 Between lines, points, spirals, an invisible thread holds bodies and ropes together, like the grass that grows in the interstices, new forms are generated, perfect in their unpredictability, surprising at every deviation, true propulsion, with agreement and disagreement.You listen out of the corner of your eye, the eye on a shoulder blade, on the […]
Words no words – Alessandro Rivellino
I was challenged to write through the subject of silence. It is, to start with, a challenge made by itself. Paradox of words and no-words. But well, read carefully: silence can have nothing to do with absence of sounds. Is just that the sounds-words generally activate some specific parts of us. Sounds are present inside […]
Polarità – Elisa Ghion
In this period I am particularly interested in observing how polarities interact with each other. Thepresence of one makes the presence of the other vivid. Their relationship creates movement.Fast/slow, Close/far, high/low, private/public.I evaluate the two extremes, I observe the spectrum that exists between them, I consider it a field in whichto move, but before that, […]
Silent Thoughts – Britta Schoenbrum
Silence .moving into silence – spaces – sitting lying being – be the beginner mind : open curious – listeningobserving not knowing – no judgment – acknowledging what’s present – NOW – what´s there ? bethe question in silence – focus – again listening to the silence – connecting to ones inner space –hearing ones […]
Where we are when we don’t know where we are – Defne Erdur
“Where we are when we don’t know where we are”, this is how Nancy Stark Smith described the space opened up by improvisation: a zone where provisions are temporarily suspended, where the ground is momentarily lacking and yet where we seek our way together. I come in silence, in curiosity, in trust and peace asking […]
Dance as a ground for the evolution of consciousness – Mathan Levkovich
When the invitation came to join the Contact Silence retreat, a sense of curiosity emerged in me.Dancing for me is a language. A language that exists in a realm that cannot be fully described by words.A language which is an experience, an experience that can alter my state of being. There are two conceptual frameworks that […]