DANCE AS A FORM OF PLAY

“DANCE as a form of PLAY” BERLIN WORKSHOP & JAM May 31 - 1 June Contact Impro Tango, Tai chi, Fusion, biomechanics and somatic elements Why is it evolutionary important to keep on playing even through adulthood? Play is essential for our creativity: it allows us to remain adaptable to life’s continuous changes, finding new solutions. Play is a way to keep our brain’s long term plasticity through continuous learning. Play is an embodied experience of joy, essential for our happiness. And becomes a healthy booster that cuts across many domains of life. Play is essential to develop and maintain healthy relations. Play allows us to take social risks. It develops trust by sharing our vulnerabilities. In this workshop, we will play into dance, and dance into play. Through play and games we will approach the structures underlying Contact Impro and Tango, with the intention to develop a unique and personal mix. We will also use elements of tai chi, fusion dance, biomechanics and somatic to experience a movement diversity that is vital for our well-being. This open combination, boundless of a given style, developed in a joyful environment, provides the possibility to deepen the understanding of ourselves and our physical, emotional relation with society and Nature. FOR WHOM: This workshop is open to people of all ages and experiences. No need of dance partner to participate. DATE & TIME SCHEDULE: WORKSHOP: Saturday 31st May: 11 - 18.30hrs Sunday 1st June: 10.30 - 14.30hrs Suggested Contribution: Sliding scale 95E - 120E before May 16th. After 110E - 130E. There is the possibility to attend just on Saturday. Discount for full time students & unemployed. JAM MIX: Saturday May 31: 19.15-22.15hrs. (with a playful warming up intro) Contribution for JAMMIX: 7 to 15E (discount for students, unemployed and etc.) STUDIO: Zentrum für Yoga und Stimme. Paul Linke Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin. 4th Floor, Hinterbau (Back Building). Die Klingel für das 4. OG. befindet sich an der Gewerbetür, nicht am Haupteingang (Vorderhaus). Please ring on the big garage door on the 4th floor. Go all the way till the end of the patios. INFO: [email protected] or call +49 176 2145 2059 via Whatsapp/ Signal or Telegram. Javier Cura is a movement activist. The interview by Daniel Dietz was created for acTVism Munich “The Meaning of Movement”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PNRKQKT5c&ab_channel=acTVismMunich OTHER VIDEOS: Underwater contact tango dance: https://vimeo.com/246302562 Contact tango: https://vimeo.com/110580854 Other videos: With Leilani Weiss www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFejqW6DlVo&t=3s www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U With Linda Bufali www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zqASLdktg With Brigitta Winkler www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc With Clelia Fumanelli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-NHJgDp5w With Kami Kvetinova https://www.facebook.com/100084442020246/videos/1133605731340205/ With Sabine Parzer www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckX859CTRLo Javier Cura is a teacher, visual artist, theatre director and movement activist and coach who has worked extensively in the realms of movement, dance and theatre. He has been invited to teach and perform at Fabrik Potsdam Tanztage, Goettingen Contact Impro Festival and Phantastango, Farma Dance Theatre Festival and Alchemie Tango in Prague, C.I.R.A in Strasbourg, as well as to CI Festival San Francisco (USA). He has dedicated himself to researches in anthropological and sociological themes to develop projects in social theatre in Italy, Morocco and Germany. He has collaborated on a research on expression in Contact Improvisation at the Berlin Free University. He has worked as movement advisor for Sickle Cell patients in London Royal Hospital. Through a mix of disciplines that nourish movement diversity, body awareness, consensual touch and creativity, he has created The Ecological Body, with the intention to reconnect with oneself, other beings and the Earth, in an emotional, physical and spiritual way. He defines himself as a movement activist. He encourages people to take care of their own vital movement needs, as these have a massive impact on our physical, emotional and spiritual health, as well as on our Planet’s health. www.javiercura.net