THE SENSORIAL ANIMAL: Contact Impro, Tango & Tai Chi

THE SENSORIAL ANIMAL "Touch knows differences." "The thin-skinned person is sensitive and intelligent; the thick-skinned, coarse and ignorant." “De Anima”, Aristotle Contact Impro, Tango and Tai Chi, are movement languages that develop through the sense of touch and from the combined proprioceptive awareness of both partners. In these dances, our sensorial being extends beyond ourselves and into our partner, creating a new sense of WE. In this way, the dance partners widen their somatosensory system, creating through physical and emotional complicity, an always evolving being with an expanded consciousness. Dancers that interact physically with a partner show improvements in balance, in physical-emotional resilience, as well as in learning and memory capacity. This mix will joyfully nourish physical coordination, rhythm, and spatial creativity. Empathy is facilitated by physical touch and as interpersonal touch is a crucial form of social glue, it will also deepen our sense of “community” and “togetherness” in a time of alienation. 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 27th June from 11 to 18.45hrs. Sunday 28th June from 10.30 to 14.30hrs WORKSHOP & JAM PLACE: 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. The doorbell for the 4th floor is located at the garage door. WORKSHOP COST: Sliding scale 95E - 120E before 31st May. After 110E - 135E. There is the possibility to attend just on Saturday. Discount & exchange for students & unemployed. JAM MIX: Saturday 27th June: 19.15-22.15hrs. (with a playful warming up intro). COST: 7 to 15E (discount for students, unemployed and etc.) INFO & REGISTRATION: [email protected] +4917621452059 Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal 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