17 – 21 April 2024
Partecipants: Max 35
Gaia Terra, Udine, Italy
This retreat is designed for people with experience in contact improvisation who are familiar with the dynamics of the jam, and for those who wish to discover how silence and meditation can enrich and deepen their experience of dance.
Silence, The Contact Improvisation Jam, Meditation, the Talking Circle
Workshop
Schedule
Platform
08.15 / 09.00 Meditation
10.00 / 10.30 Silent Circle
10.30 Silent Jam
15.00 / 16.00 Talking Circle
16.00 / 19.00 Intensive
21.00 Silent Circle
21.30 Jam
Silence
Meals
09.00 / 10.00 Breakfast
13.00 / 14.30 Lunch
19.30 / 21.00 Dinner
Workshop Focalizers
Nayeli Špela
About Nayeli Špela: In my profession and passion, I work as psychologist and psychotherapist, founder of Moave - psychology in movement NGO. My background in movement comes from growing up being a semi professional handball player for many, many years. This sport tough me about momentum, ability to fall without fear, trust my instincts, trust my body intelligence to adapt, observe the space and have a felt sense perception of it, being fast, but alert etc. etc. After starting dancing contact improvisation I realised, it is all there in the body and so for me felt like arriving home. All this informations came together. For me contact improvisation is about principles that need to be embodied, to be danced and they can only be embodied if they are felt and experienced, rather than understood. I have deep respect for this practice since in my perception it is a teacher of life. Thanks to many, many knowledgeable people I have met in the jams, festivals and workshops, their wisdom and body intelligence have touched me and reshaped me into a more aware, soft and humble human being. I look forward to meeting you in this workshop and learning from you!
Bastien Auber
After several years of Contact Improvisation (and climbing), he began to teach CI in 2011. Since, he has taught many workshops, classes and in many festivals in : France, Spain , Italy, Germany, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, India, etc ... His approach about bodily dynamics is closely linked with the existing movements in nature (in water, earth, air, fire). His teaching is based on the relationship between body and multi-spatial environment (spirals, micro and macrocosme). He is also a geologist, a géobiologist, a dance performer ; he organizes the "1001 Festival" in Grenoble, practice meditation ... and is interested by the settle bodies, by the energetics places on earth, and by the poetry in dance! He lives in moutains around Grenoble and teaching CI is his main Job.
Talking Circle and Jam Focalizers
Alessandro Ismaele Binelli
Alessandro Ismaele Binelli grew up with a passion for the human body and movement, practicing many different sports and studying first Exercise Science and then Osteopathy. In 2016, he began exploring personal research through meditation, yoga, and shamanic practices. In 2021, he fell in love with Contact Improvisation, which opened up an innovative perspective on the conception of the body in movement and in relationship. Shortly after, he discovered Playfight, a discipline of conscious wrestling with a focus on emotions, which led him to start facilitating men's circles and mixed circles, beginning to integrate the emotional body with the physical and mental bodies. Today, his approach to the body is becoming increasingly in-depth thanks to training in biotransenergetic counseling.
Ilaria Vergani
Yoga and meditation Teacher, bodyworker, Dancer and Visual Artist. After graduating in Visual Arts, I began my research in the field of performance, contemporary dance and audiovisual arts working internationally in Europe especially in Germany and Spain where I studied the Master of Performing Practice and Visual Culture at Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid. I met Contact Improvisation in 2016 and it was love at the first sight, since then I have deepened my training studying with many teachers around the globe and being nourished by the warmth of the CI community. Contact improvisation became an important part of my research both in daily and in artistic expression. My practice blends somatic practice with yoga, meditation, and philosophy with creative needs, encouraging a dynamic connection between body and mind. I believe in the therapeutic power of somatic and artistic practices, and I guide students on a journey of self-discovery, using yoga and Somatics as a tool for personal growth and connection to the universe.
Musician
Tomo Haru
Plastic artist and multi-instrumentalist musician, born in Japan in 1981 and raised in Spain, he currently lives between Italy, Spain and Brazil, where he performs his musical projects. In recent years he has also approached the culture and classical music of India. He has always been linked to the world of circus and dance, composing music for different shows. Saxophonist and flutist with musical groups from Madrid and Italy. A fusion of ethnic music that combines the sounds of instruments such as Handpan, Saxophone, overtone singin, didjeridoo, flutes, drums, traveling between nu jazz, classical, trance. Create evocative music, with meditative atmospheres and melodies that transport you to a dreamlike and intimate world.
How to get there
By train
Nearest airports: Trieste, Venezia
By Car
VIA PETRARCA 45, FLAMBRUZZO (UDINE)
By train
Nearest Train station: LATISANA
then you’ll get a bus to FLAMBRUZZO
By bus
Linea 515
LATISANA – FLAMBRUZZO ore 13:40 – 14.10
