WILD ENERGY: connecting with our natural vitality through Contact Impro, Tai Chi & Tango

LEIPZIG WORKSHOP & JAMMIX FEBRUARY 22 - 23 WILD ENERGY: connecting with our natural vitality through Contact Impro, Tai Chi & Tango “Our bodies, so much the stuff of the world, so sensitive to our inner images, are more changeable than we think, more fluid, more spiritual, more infused with light than we guess.” J.P.Conger: “The body as shadow” Our hyper-rational live has developed at the expense of our primitive natural vitality, splitting mind and body. As we explore ourselves through movement, conscious touch, somatic awareness, physical relations and imagery, we can reveal our physical limits (pains, chronic tensions, symptoms), but also our possibilities: the seeds of our healing and growth that lie in the connection with our physical emotional body. The mix of Contact improvisation, Tango and Tai Chi elements, offer a variety of sensing and relating possibilities, besides an immense richness of movement. The mix of Contact improvisation, Tango and Tai Chi elements, offer a variety of sensing and relating possibilities, besides an immense richness of movement. This mix will expand the sensorial perception of ourself and others, allowing our creativity to emerge from a playfully and sensorial grounding. The connection through our bodies can become the jumping off place into higher emotional and spiritual realms. This open combination, boundless of a given style, developed in a playful 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 interested in movement creation as a path of knowledge, healing, communication and personal enrichment. DATE & TIME SCHEDULE: WORKSHOP: Saturday FEBRUARY 22nd: 14 - 18.30hrs Sunday FEBRUARY 23rd: 10 - 15hrs Suggested Contribution: Sliding scale 95E - 125E before February 9. After 115E - 135E. Discount for full time students & unemployed. There is also the possibility to attend only for one day. . JAM MIX - DINNER: Saturday 22nd February: DINNER 18.30 to 19.30 Mitbringen Vegetarian Buffet. JAM from 19.30-22.15hrs. (with a playful warming up intro) NOTE: as another way to get to know each other and nourishing community, we would like to share some food together. Please, bring whatever you would like to share. Suggested Contribution for JAMMIX: 7 to 15E (discount for students, unemployed and etc.) The jam & dinner are open to everyone. No need to register, come directly. STUDIO: Soziokulturelles Zentrum "Die VILLA" Lessingstr. 7, 04109 Leipzig, Kleiner Saal, 1. Etage INFO Javier [email protected] or +49 176 2145 2059 or Sophia [email protected] +491783035980 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1132453438408833?active_tab=about 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 dance video: https://vimeo.com/246302562 Contact tango video: https://vimeo.com/110580854 Other videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zqASLdktg www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFejqW6DlVo&t=3s Acro Contact tango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-NHJgDp5w 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