Contact improvisation workshop with Alessandro Rivellino - Presence, grace, mistery

Alessandro is visiting Australia and sharing his offerings and blessings ✨ Melbourne 🌏 Saturday 28th 2pm to 8pm Welcome!!! Description: Presence, Grace, Mystery This workshop will open space for some of the most precious things of Contact Improvisation. It is directed for everyone that wants to be there. It will suggest that experience is born by witnessing yourself, being attentive, but not heavy. By making partnership with gravity we have the gateway for the playfulness, the force of life that crosses us all. You know, any mo-ve-ment is a precious thing, I would say that even if you repeat it, it will be new. Presence is always here, we just tune attention to empower it. I like to invert the assumption that we dance, for the one who says that we are danced. Let's embody this surrender and enjoy the poetry that is behind words. Your first task is to lower your expectations, but knowing that we will consider dance itself as a teacher, and the floor and the sky will be available to dance with. More bodies will appear, we will have the grace of improvisation inside the clearest bases. Welcome. Bring yourself. As you are. . ALESSANDRO RIVELLINO (Brasil) I have been living dance and contact improvisation in a surrendered way as a dancer for 21 years and as a teacher for 16. Had the opportunity to travel more than 33 countries, offering and having classes, intensive courses, workshops, residencies and Jams with different and experienced colleagues, which probably gave me a good “floor” to start with ‘not knowing with certain quality'... I have studied a little bit of: BMC, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Antigimnastics, Muscular Chains GDS, Craneosacral Osteopathy, Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, Anthropology, Philosophy, Choreography, Performance Studies, Sitespecific, Butoh, Authentic Movement, Zen Buddhism, Ancient Technologies of the Sacred; and a lot of Contact Improvisation. I am passioned by the Contact Improvisation practice and I am engaged in organising retreats for it to receive its depth, with different containers, either in silence or within a somatic approach, bodywork research or getting inspiration with nature, the biggest pleasure is to offer space and time to the practice in itself. I come from different dance schools at the somatic level and movement research, I have the luck of having a masters degree and different awards and nominations as a dancer and choreographer. Today I see that I have danced and taught for big part of my whole 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. . registration and more information [email protected] 0439987101