Category: Main

Young Girls Wanna Dance Their Spirit

by Lilach Pnina Livne

 

..and in the midst of all this and all the time we will explore the spirit of the “Young Girl” within us! 🙂
Livne creates a reflective space in this course, where reflection becomes an integral part of the dance itself. Reflection becomes a material we could all see, feel and experience.

 

The workshop proposes a new logic of creating dance – using Livne’s ‘Spirit Dance’ method – to let the intuition, chance, real inner process, complex humanity, chaotic sexuality, aesthetic confrontations, independent thoughts, trippy imaginative visions – to exist while someone else is watching you!

 

Can we ever truly dance freely when someone else is watching?

 

Can a “performative space”, where humans (performers) are meeting other humans (audiences), create a different logic for art? One that relies on full subjectivity as a tool for expression, rather than predefined images and frames?

 

The main goal of this workshop is awareness. To constantly be aware of who you are, as a “performer”, in every moment, and to sometimes, even in the middle of it all – to self
reflect, re-construct, re-create, re-choose.

 

We will explore the spirit thatwas lost in the process of performing dance, and we will explore the creation of new relations between all the elements that make up the medium of dance and performance and how situations and moods such as friendship & compassion can be an integral part of experiencing dancing with other people in the same space –  as a performing state in a dance performance and as an audience witnessing this kind of being.

 

We will explore “where I am” in mind and body when I dance and challenge this question by different practices of “the body is here and the mind is there”.

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All Unplugged Dance workshops are open to everyone who wants to meet, share, dance and self-explore through movement and creative process. There is no need for previous experience in dance classes, although if there is one, it is welcome. 

“Young Girls Wanna Dance Their Spirit” workshop is part of the Main Unplugged 2023 program, and shares the week with “IMPRINT#LOVE: A Writer’s Workshop”.

In the Main Unplugged we host every year new educators and artists from all over the world, through an open call process, in order to meet and highlight dance practices and methods that may exist around the world and approach dance as a practice of embodiment. We choose to emphasize on the importance of embodiment in dance education, research and choreography, in order to approach dance in a more open and inclusive way that can relate to self-determination, empowerment and expression. A dance -metaphorically and literally speaking- beyond the pursuit of a perfect form, that serves a liberating process of acceptance and joy. 

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Regulatory Bodies | In Plain Sight

by Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis

 

Regulatory bodies or looking at how bodies regulate and being regulated by the space they inhabit.

 

In Plain Sight is a workshop that invites anyone to reflect upon the human body and its nature through and beyond identities, to experience the presence of shifting bodyscapes and to explore the vastness of our blurry sensorial limits. Inspired by meditative practices of the gaze, Giorgos will introduce participants in slowness and reflection, while dealing and relating with nature and its patterns, shapes and textures.

We shall explore a canvas of great compositional possibilities where human body can be lost and found between a woody land, rocks and water. From candle gazing to creating dances of polymorphous moving flesh we shall play and question the nature of nature in order to see and be seen.

 

 

What to expect

To be part of a co-exploring community in a safe and non judgmental space.

To move freely through simple guidance.

To share thoughts, reflect and understand better the other and the self.

To practice gaze and to have the chance to be gazed similar to the way one meditates on a candle flame.

To spent time in the nature and on the studio (platform)

 

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All Unplugged Dance workshops are open to everyone who wants to meet, share, dance and self-explore through movement and creative process. There is no need for previous experience in dance classes, although if there is one, it is welcome. 

“Regulatory Bodies | In Plain Sight” workshop is part of the Main Unplugged 2o23 program and shares the week with “IN REFLECTION/RESONANCE” workshop 

In the Main Unplugged we host every year new educators and artists from all over the world, through an open call process, in order to meet and highlight dance practices and methods that may exist around the world and approach dance as a practice of embodiment. We choose to emphasize on the importance of embodiment in dance education, research and choreography, in order to approach dance in a more open and inclusive way that can relate to self-determination, empowerment and expression. A dance -metaphorically and literally speaking- beyond the pursuit of a perfect form, that serves a liberating process of acceptance and joy. 

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Find the BOOK YOUR SPOT button at the end of this page. 

IMPRINT#LOVE

by Delicia Sefiha

 

This workshop creates a space for connecting our bodies to ideas, experiences, understandings,
questions and practices around love.

A space for treating love as a new territory to be discovered and as a script we are all collectively composing. Love as an active embodied practice.

Journeying through moments of movement improvisation, creative explorations, witnessing, reading, writing and sharing, we’ll connect with, question, challenge and express our love imprints; our embodied love practice systems, and, maybe, we’ll discover new ones.

What to expect:

#Moments of movement improvisation, creative explorations, witnessing, reading, writing and sharing. 

#Movement journeys; we’ll build improvisation worlds, we’ll play, we’ll create our own love scores, we’ll find ways to release our embodied love practice systems (and maybe, we’ll discover new ones). 

#An archive; we’ll attempt to find a collective way we can archive our shared journey. 

 

A small section of one of the Collective Love Manuals composed by the participants of the first IMPRINT # LOVE A Writer’s Workshop.

Love is in the everyday. It infiltrates every small movement.
Love is moving and emotional and temperamental.
It offers softness and comfort through touch, weight, distance, voice.
Remember that your body, the whole thing, is an antenna.

Use it like that.

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All Unplugged Dance workshops are open to everyone who wants to meet, share, dance and self-explore through movement and creative process. There is no need for previous experience in dance classes, although if there is one, it is welcome. 

 

“IMPRINT#LOVE”  is part of the Main Unplugged 2023 program and shares the week with “Young Girls Wanna Dance Their Spirit” workshop

In the Main Unplugged we host every year new educators and artists from all over the world, through an open call process, in order to meet and highlight dance practices and methods that may exist around the world and approach dance as a practice of embodiment. We choose to emphasize on the importance of embodiment in dance education, research and choreography, in order to approach dance in a more open and inclusive way that can relate to self-determination, empowerment and expression. A dance -metaphorically and literally speaking- beyond the pursuit of a perfect form, that serves a liberating process of acceptance and joy. 

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Find the BOOK YOUR SPOT button at the end of this page. 

IN REFLECTION/RESONANCE

by Anna Konjetzky & Huby Sahra & Quindell Orton

 

In this workshop we invite you to dive in 5 thematic zones of research: awakening our senses, practicing collective care, decentralizing the body in a wider eco system, queering normativity, and rewriting/deconstructing patterns.

These Ideas and topics will be explored and translated through movement, using the body as a source of knowledge, sharing and discovering together physicalities and practices for present and future.

 

Each day we will propose different exercises and scores linked to each zones, but also explore with the participants how to develop their own practices, exercises and scores to embody the different zones.

In that sense the workshop focusses on a self-exploration and creative process, as it proposes clear tasks and experiences to the participants, but also invites them to find their own approaches and translations of the zones in their bodies.

It is a proposal to engages as much on a choreographic and compositional level, using the body to translate ideas and topics into movement and physicalities, and it is also about creating a space for collective experience, using the body as a source of knowledge, which is shared and physicalized through movement, reflecting and exploring together around ideas and desires for the present and future.

 

Sensitizing 

Letting the world enter our body and tasting it.
This work is about creating practices for awakening the senses, opening the channels, and expanding to receive the world in a more sensual, sensitive somatic way.

 

Queering

Unknowing the known.
This zone is about changing habits, refusing normativity, questioning systems and structures.

 

Decentralizing

Breaking hierarchies. Existing next to each other.
This work is an attempt to practice co-existence in a larger ecosystem, creating allyships, practicing companionship and kinship beyond human bonds, and taking humans out of center stage.

 

Rewriting

Rewriting a new past for a different future.
We want to question what are our references, if the heritage we transmit is the one we want to continue, knowing that everyday we continue building an archive, a heritage for our future self, future generations and the future of the earth.

 

Care

Building a relationship up on tenderness and awareness.
This zone is about how we share, how we exist together in response-ability.   A practice of care means to put oneself in relation to somebody/something else , to connect, to listen.

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All Unplugged Dance workshops are open to everyone who wants to meet, share, dance and self-explore through movement and creative process. There is no need for previous experience in dance classes, although if there is one, it is welcome. 

“IN REFLECTION/RESONANCE” workshop is part of the Main Unplugged 2023 program and shares the week with “Regulatory Bodies | In Plain Sight” workshop

In the Main Unplugged we host every year new educators and artists from all over the world, through an open call process, in order to meet and highlight dance practices and methods that may exist around the world and approach dance as a practice of embodiment. We choose to emphasize on the importance of embodiment in dance education, research and choreography, in order to approach dance in a more open and inclusive way that can relate to self-determination, empowerment and expression. A dance -metaphorically and literally speaking- beyond the pursuit of a perfect form, that serves a liberating process of acceptance and joy. 

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Find the BOOK YOUR SPOT button at the end of this page.