Category: Revisited

Seeds

by Marina Tsartsara & Defne Erdur

 

 

Seeds – inquiring creativity on the transitive line between life and art

 

We will be planting many seeds together this week. With the support of images, materials i.e resources from our inner worlds and the out world surrounding us; trusting the creative potential of each seed that we all bring we wish to host this week in a seriously joyful and joyfully serious way.

We wish for the “essence”, the “home”, the “authentic life force” to find its effortless unfolding.

We will support each other to give and take time, space and nourishment to realize where we are on the cycle of our own creativity : seed in a palm, seed under soil, cracking seed, sprouting, growing, fruiting, decaying… fertile and potent no matter at which state… you are welcome!

 

 

Deepening into Somatic Art® Practice with Marina Tsartsara

During this week we will delve into an in depth research of the Somatic Art® Practice methodology on the subject of the ‘seed’.
The methodology interlaces Somatic, Performance and Visual Art methods deepening into the contents of each workshop through weaving and layering.
Our daily explorations will include Experiential Anatomy (Body-Mind Centering®), Experiential Embryology, Somatic Movement, Relational Mindfulness, Performance methods, Fine & Visual Arts (drawing, photography & video) as well as creative writing.
Part of our explorations will be spending time in nature to ‘borrow’ qualities, materials and inspiration.
We will work on individual, couple and group dynamics/relationships.
Personal reflections and group sharings are important and will be given space as part of the integration of the work.

Body-Mind Centering® is a practice of experiential anatomy and psychophysical integration: embodiment of current and older body structures (embryology and body systems) through consciousness, visualisations and somatisations. The methodology is experiential and the tools are: breathing, voice, touch and movement. Qualities of touch are very important in embodiment via BMC®, as well as relational work and group dynamics.

 

 

MA – Pregnant Nothingness

“Where there is clutter, even valuable things lose their value. Where there is too much, nothing stands out. The essence of Japanese aesthetic is a concept called ‘MA’ (pronounced “maah”) — the pure, and indeed essential, void between all “things.” A total lack of clutter, MA is like a holder within which things can exist, stand out and have meaning. MA is the emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled. … MA is in the purposeful pauses in speech which make words stand out. It is in the quiet time we all need to make our busy lives meaningful, and in the silence between the notes which make the music.
MA is what creates the peace of mind (called ‘heijoshin’ in Japanese) we all need, so that there is room for our thoughts to exist properly, and to thrive.” (1)

This week – as we will be working deeply with our own bodies and images, revisiting information that actually “every body knows”, and as we will be immersed in abundant nature – it feels important and necessary to co-create “empthy space” as an interval, a treshold, laying fallow… To experience timelessness, spacelessness, pregnant nothingness may allow us to transform, discover/recover, reconnect to our creative potential as artists, researchers, teachers, facilitators, students, i.e. curious beings on this planet. Within a clear and simple time-space frame to contain what is being born in our togetherness I will invite each of us to focus on our individual states, needs and desires, our own inquiries. Many modalities ranging from Wheel of Consent, Somatic Experiencing to Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement to Instant Composition will be at our service if and when the collective empty space we hold calls for them. Antonija Livingston’s invitation will be one of our principle mantra “Do. Don’t Do. Modify. Witness. Report. Reset. Recover.”

 

Our daily schedule:

08.00 – 09.00 Breakfast
09.30-12.30 Practice
13.00 – 16.30 Resting & snack
16.30-19.30 Practice
20.00 -21.00 Dinner

Sunday 9th is the arrival day and only welcome dinner is included.

Sunday 16th is the departure day and only breakfast is included.

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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. 

 

“Seeds” is part of Unplugged Revisited, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.

With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.

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

 

 

The Body The Player The Journey

by Rafaela Sahyoun

 

Rafaela Sahyoun creates a playful, physical & sensitive space to experience dance. 

 

The Body The Player The Journey stimulates practitioners to dance their authenticity. An invitation to the modulations of inner and outer connections through mechanisms of perception, approximating each individual to their personal and collective landscapes.

The work focuses on the body’s mobility from the perspective of biotensegrity, aiming to expand awareness of the body as an integrated living network. Practitioners are invited to access information from their bodily experiences unveiling their available perceptible resources.

Through games & improvisation practices, people will be exposed to and experience the following principles:

(1) sensitive & systemic mapping of the body, (2) gravity & body axis, (3)distribution of tension & modulations of tone, (4) the folds of the body, (5) the fabulous universe of spirals, (6) multidimensionality,(7) asymmetry, (8) body pulsations.

In current times it feels fundamental to dance what pulses in & in between us, exploring modes of interaction, negotiation, and trust.

The Body The Player The Journey encourages individual & collective tuning in connection with the new encounters in the fascinating surroundings of Paleochori space, welcoming vitality to dance life in real-time.

 

Our daily schedule:

8.00-9.00 Breakfast
9.30-12.30 Practice
13.00-16.00 Resting & Snack
16.30-19.30 Practice
20.00-21.00 Dinner

Sunday 3rd of September is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included.

Sunday 10th of September is the departure day, and only breakfast is included.

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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. 

 

“The Body The Player The Journey” is part of Unplugged Revisited, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.

With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.

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

 

 

Losing Ground | Intimate Circles

by Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis & Kyveli Kouvatsi

 

…an occasion to listen with your skin, what exists beyond it.

Losing Ground is the result of long movement research into improvisation, co-movement, touch, empathy and consent. This is not a therapeutic technique, although it can work as such. We could say that it is a way to approach the Other through sensory experience. A physical practice of the post-pandemic era for the lost pleasure of touch and the richness that sensation contains. For exploring movement and co-movement, Losing Ground is an occasion to listen with your skin, what exists beyond it.

 

What to expect . . . 

#exercises in pairs with eyes closed

#verbal, non-intrusive instructions adapted to each case

#physical contact only between participants with discreet guidance and supervision

#movement improvisation and exploration

#games that activate proprioception and kinesthesia

#sharing cycles in a non-critical environment

 

Ideal for anyone who wants to . . .

#share a unique dance practice and experience

#explore and develop their communication on a non-verbal level

#explore a different way of dance communication

#to be fed back from an internal information system while working alongside a partner

#try a safe framework of self-expression and exploration through contact with another person

 

a few more words about Losing Ground . . . 

Losing Ground is an original practice in couples with the basic working condition of the closed eyes of one body and the feeling of touch as a moving stimulus. 

Drawing inspiration from somatic practices, it explores moving possibilities in a way containing all the dynamics of our bodily memory without being trapped in it. By sharpening our kinesthetic functions, a dance of kinetic codecision, increased care and alertness can occur.

This practice’s research revolves around how dance emerges through the consent of the two bodies and opens a field of reflection for the concepts of codecision and togetherness. In this practice the roles have joint responsibility but also freedom of choice and the goal is not manipulation or puppeting, but co-movement and codecision. 

Being part of this togetherness, and while practicing trust and receptivity, the two bodies have the opportunity to explore different qualities, speeds, to experience space differently, moving off-axis and in positions that without each other would not they could explore.

The mobility we explore is not based on imitation, but on a way of guiding that contains all the dynamics of our bodily memory, yet without being trapped in it. Thus, each pair with specific tools and through research exercises builds its own communication code that will allow it to gradually co-move more and more complexly.

 

Our daily schedule

8.00-9.00 Morning practice / breathwork (optional)
9.00-10.00 breakfast
10.30-14.00 Losing Ground class
14.00-17.30 Resting & snack
17.30-19.30 Losing Ground practice / impro
20.00-21.00 Dinner

Sunday 25th of June is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included.
Sunday 2nd of July is the departure day, and only breakfast is included.

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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. 

 

“Losing Ground | Intimate Circles” is part of Unplugged Revisited, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.

With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.

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

DADAtelier on unpredictable dance | one-week wild open LAB

by Ainara Lopez Makalilo

 

You’re walking. And you don’t always realise it
But you’re always falling
With each step, you fall forward slightly
And then catch yourself from falling
Over and over, you’re falling
And then catching yourself from falling
And this is how you can be walking and falling
Laurie Anderson

 

This workshop is a non-conventional experimental open laboratory of research and creation aimed at exploring new ways of moving and relating to environment.
We will relate to elements and the states we go through by finding new strategies. We will get in touch with what surrounds us in surprising different ways, exploring the intersections of bodies and their environment. This workshop is focused in the meeting between body and landscape, the individual/ collective body and space.

In this second edition, we will explore the act of walking and the wandering:

#different ways of walking, of guiding and being guided

#sensitive wanderings and how we can approach elements, textures, other bodies, ours;

#how to deal with what we can feel through our senses but also with the invisible, and observe the movements that arise from these encounters.

#we will create different experiences around the act of remembering and build sensitive maps and cartographies in motion out of these researches.

#we will set up a play yard and will try through DADA technics to create absurd choreographies.

#we will go on a journey around different sceneries (urban and nature), ending up the week with a wild final presentation open to audience.

 

The distance between my body and my shadow, the walk, the fall, environment seen otherwise, unlikely moving behaviours; becoming a body for the first time, transforming into exquisite-corpses, improvising in improbable spaces, stepping back, letting go, moving on. Gravity and lightness, memory, the invisible, the unpredictable, let’s deform together daily patterns

 

Based on the experience with DaDá collectives (L’atelier D and La Sangria Discreta) and the Moonwalk project (an itinerant dance project during a moon cycle), this workshop is aimed at abandoning conventions and exploring the unknown, the unpredictable, through exercises developed outdoors.

The exercises proposed are inspired by improvisation, Butō dance, performance, authentic movement, Body weather techniques, DaDÁ, as well as the desire to write and share personal languages outside the everyday.

 

Our daily schedule:

08.30 -09.30 breakfast
10.00 – 12.00 Practice
12.00 – 16.00  Resting & snack
16.00-19.30  Practice
20.00 -21.00 Dinner

 

*In case the group is interested, there is a possibility of a day work in Nidri town. Please be aware that a taxi back to Neochori village would be no more than 5 euros per person.

Sunday 25th of June is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included.

Sunday 2nd of July is the departure day, and only breakfast is included.

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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. 

 

“Dada Workshop on unpredictable dance” is part of Unplugged Revisited, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.

With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.

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

 

 

 

 

Revisiting Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: sensorial relations

by Androniki Marathaki

 

“How can we sense the relationscapes of the Body?

How to rest in the differences and similarities of our movement and of the eternal movement of the world? 

As questions only release movement, this is an invitation of the dance that is released from that void of material existence, tangible reality of the human body and its relationship to the infinite, eternal and wild movement of the world.

How to actualize their dialogue, their conflicts, their heterochronisms and synchronicities? Or rather, how do you realize yourself through them? For me, in those intervals there is a Dance to be experienced.”

Androniki

 

 

“Let’s be comfortable in our own skin” is a dance improvisation practice that invests in discovering ways to coordinate our movement with the sensing of our Bodily Stimulus. It is a direction of managing our movement in the world through processes that concern not how it can be observed from an external point of view, but how the movement itself informs, sensitizes and activates the various organizations and arrangements of the living and whole Body. This practice is characterized by a study, contemplation and experience of the dance with “bare attention” of what we call “bodily sensations” and a way of practicing that is focused around a precise quality of attention. A quality of attention that embraces subjectivity, invests in its importance in the art of dance, and at the same time seeks what may be common as a process to arrive at it. So perhaps what we define as Body and as Dance can organize its meaning differently, supported by what is coordinated, comforting, healthy, delightfully related and above all defined by the fact that it continues to move.

 

Starting from this practice, in this revisiting, our main focus is on what unravels in the relationship of human movement and movement as an eternal and infinite possibility.

Based on this provocation of differentiating between sensory-revealed movement and that which exists around us in the universe, this workshop wishes to develop the sensoriality of relationships.

Mainly it sensitizes our awareness to embodied landscapes of relationships, to a sensorial exploration of relationships from the densest structures of the human body, to its softest networks and finally to the dialogue that the moving human body can develop with the movement of the world around it .

 

#The first part of the workshop is focused on the primary stages of the practice “let’s be comfortable in our own skin” and introduces the practice  to everyone, while the second part focuses on the revisiting version of sensorial relationscapes.  

#In the afternoon there is one last optional session during which participants choose and explore it personally. The proposed journeys for this session are offered as scores and activate the : ”exploring my personal practice” | “witnessing and offering to others” | “practicing pausing in 4 postures” | “my free time in dance floor” | “articulating my dance” | “discussing my dance”). 

#The workshop is addressed to those that wish to develop a healthy relation in how they move to/in/with the world and experience movement. It is inspired by dance, somatic practices, neuroscience, Qiqong and infinite moments of practicing alone and with others.

 

Our  daily programme 

8.00-9.00 breathing & micromoving

9.00-10.00 Breakfast

10.00-12.00 Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: Round A

12.00-14.00 Revisiting Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: sensorial relations

14.00-17.30 Snack & Resting 

17.30-19.30 Personal journeys (optional)

20.00-21.00 Dinner

 

Sunday 23rd is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included.

Sunday 30th is the departure day and only breakfast is included.

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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. 

 

“Revisiting Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: sensorial relations” is part of Unplugged Revisited, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.

With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.

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

The Nomadic School of Moving Thought | e x p a n s i o n | from Art to Life

by Sonia Ntova

 

Οur self as a geographical multitude. The I of the many. The self of the earth. The vitality of the vibrant matter. The ‘I’ becomes we. The ‘we’ is been decentralized from the human. The human becomes part of nature. Nature becomes a collective topography. Care is been applied as a way to sustain and nurture life. A sensitive micro-perceptual world active to feel the relational ability to move and be moved.

 

A creative school where the practices of embodiment and care are the essential elements throughout the whole week. 

This ‘school’ is not only about acquiring skills but taking a step further by applying them to other aspects of our daily practice. It is a process that moves towards a sensitive ecological understanding of “becoming”.

The somatic practices that we will be shared during the week, are a series of movements and interactions for everyone to investigate the sensorial self.

The practices suggest the body as an ontological space that functions with care for equal relationships in the world.

#We will work daily in different locations.

#We will work on somatic practices and instructions that will expand our sensorial world. 

#We will investigate our sensory perception and expand our imaginary potential. 

#We will work individually and in groups. 

#We will reflect on the training practices.

#We will enter into the dance archive of ecofeminism, corporeal art, somatic practices, and sustainable body.

#We will create different modalities of learning, and we will apply notions of embodiment through our common daily life in Palaichori.

#We will permit our encounter to evolve the practices further.

 

The further application of the practices in daily life examines and wishes to unfold an alternative way of thinking and raises questions about the sensory dimensions of existence in the current era. It activates the body as a vital force that acts collectively and sensitively, bringing forward the importance to re-evaluate the common space. 

By activating our attention, critical reflection and emancipatory potential, the school aims to create a space where ‘discourse, fantasy and corporeality’ (Massey, 1999) formulate landforms of mutual understanding and care.

The school invites all different bodies to attend. No experience with movement/dancing is necessary.

 

The school includes:

Somatic practices outdoors

Conversations and collective reflection

Walks

Writing

Collective raw cooking

Interaction with the locals

Sharing

 

Our daily schedule 
8.30 – 9.30 Breakfast / Collective cooking on 22nd
9.30 – 11.30 Somatic Practice
11.30 – 13.00 Meet my roots walk / Collective cooking on 18th
13.00 – 14.30 Snack / rest
14.30 – 16.00 Slow practice- Moving Thoughts / Under the shadows
16:30 – 19:30 Somatic Practice / Sharing – meeting the locals (last day)
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner

Sunday 16th of July is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included. Sunday 23rd of July is the departure day and there will be an Early Ritual and Salutation Breakfast!

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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. 

 

“The Nomadic School of Moving Thought | e x p a n s i o n | from Art to Life” is part of Unplugged Revisited, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.

With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.

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