C.I. Workshop The Potency of a Heart, with Alessandro Rivellino (Bra)

At this Contact Improvisation workshop we will weave the relations with some parts of what is inside our bodies and what is inside the space that surrounds, contains and holds us. A meeting happens at the space and time in between oneself and the otherhood. Improvisation arises there. The heart is shaped in a spiral unfolded in itself. Same breeze of soul, pumping blood, as the impulses and affection. It has resonance and intelligence, it can sense, it marks time, as a drum. It is awesome to study the heart and the circulatory system. And what about feeling it? What is heart? The heart is the main organ to understand intuition. Intuition is about having intimacy with movement. Movement is related with time and space, and the body acts as the process of mediation in between all. It is all. Life itself. How does heart, space and time unfold a dancing body? This is a c.i. workshop with énfasis in the relation of the heart with the movement development and the research of improvisation in c.i. You are welcome as you are to make the sinfony stronger with your presence. 💕 It can be poetic, specific, anatomical and crazy. All in a good way and with the amount of tenderness and safety that is needed to open space for dance to come and happen, taking us into learning and enjoyment. It will happen at Dynamo, Zurich, Switzerland. At 6th July, From 10h to 13h and 14h to 17h , the workshop. From 17h to 19h, the Jam. Limited spots! In 2 sessions of 3 hours and a JAM of 2 hours, we complete the journey for Saturday. Investment: Workshop: 70.- Jam: 20.- Workshop+Jam: 80.- Registration: [email protected] Note: If your financial situation is blocking you to come, please write us a motivation letter and what is possible for you. . . . . . . About Alessandro Rivellino Bio 1: Where is the intersection of dreamland and awaken realm at this big reality called Dream? Alessandro Rivellino? What to say? I have been living dance and contact improvisation in a surrendered way as a dancer for 18 years (if i do not count my childhood experiences) and as a teacher for 13, and I had the opportunity to travel to 26 countries, offering and having classes, intensive courses, workshops, residencies and Jams with different and experienced colleagues, what probably gave me a good "floor" to start with 'not knowing with certain quality' ... I have also organized, with more people, different meetings and festivals of this beautiful practice, in Brazil, Italy, Peru, Argentina, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Turkey and Mexico. I come from different dance schools at the somatic level and movement research, today I see that I have danced and taught a good part of my life and yet I feel that I have just started. In my practice I have been integrating various techniques and bringing the potential of dance to life. If I ask myself between my name and my body, the second one is the dearest, and if you ask about my deepest interest in dancing and teaching the answer would be around living questions related to dance itself, to the presence and to the Big Mystery. I Hope through this illusion of you and I being separated, we can drop it, and go beyond our hanging names to explore the in-between field of existence to dance and be danced with and through the visible and invisible forces entangled at each single moment and find the way to be at the arch of beauty. ... Bio2: If I would live from the glory of the past, I would tell you that i have 18 years of surrendering life to dance, and that when I was child I used to dance a lot. And even, i could say about recognizments, goals, and progress. I could say that i was awarded as best dancer, that i was nominated as best dancer another time and director, that I have an award for artistic and research excellence, that I have a masters degree, that I travelled 26 countries teaching, dancing, organizing festivals, labs, retreats, residencies. I could say that I was part of the Experimental dance group for several years, as a student and teacher. That I had funds for creating art pieces that were awarded and nominated, and for studying and travelling. But really, if I cannot forget about that, you will not reach me, there are too many past, too many "I", let's just understand that "wrinkles are the knowledge" and the body knows where to go. If we trust, we will meet at a common field, the field of presence, the only place where dancing, learning and teaching can happen. Life is happening now, as an action, a force, full of mystery and grace, is from there that I want us to be guided. ... . Photo @lazy Gotji