THE OBVIOUS INVISIBLE: Walk, touch and balance into Tango spirals & Contact Impro.

THE OBVIOUS INVISIBLE: Walk, touch and balance into Tango spirals & Contact Impro. Walking is a biological dialogue with our environment. During our evolution, the variability of our environment created our rich plasticity of movement. By contrast, nowadays lack of movement and comfortable contexts, create stiffness and mind dullness through repetition without variation. Dancers that interact physically with a partner like in Tango and Contact Impro, show improvements in balance, physical - emotional resilience, as well as in learning and memory capacity. The mix of Tango and Contact Impro elements, will joyfully nourish physical coordination, rhythm, spatial creation and sensorial emotional interaction. This mix is not only a way to boost our neuroplasticity and physical fitness, but also a playfully creative and deeply human way of entering in contact with oneself and others. FOR WHOM: This workshop is open to people of all ages and experiences interested in movement creation as a path of knowledge, healing, communication and personal enrichment. The workshop will be taught in English and German. WORKSHOP DATE & TIME SCHEDULE: Saturday 25th April: 10 - 18.45hrs WORKSHOP PLACE Berlin Zentrum für Yoga und Stimme. Paul Linke Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin. 4. Etage, Hinterbau. Die Klingel für das 4. OG befindet sich an der Gewerbetür, nicht am Haupteingang (Vorderhaus). WORKSHOP COST: Sliding scale 80E -100E - 125E before 12st April. After 95E - 115E. Discount for full time students & unemployed. Cost does not include jam. JAM MIX: Saturday 25th April: 19.15-22.15hrs. (with a playful warming up intro). COST: 7 to 15E (discount for students, unemployed and etc.) JAM PLACE: Zentrum für Yoga & Stimme. Paul Linke Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin. 4. Etage INFO & REGISTRATION: [email protected] +4917621452059 Whtsp, Telgr, Sig Javier Cura is a movement activist. The interview below 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 With Emi Farashi: www.youtube.com/shorts/lp37LxT-Sms 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