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Workshops

Towards the Egoless Body

workshopActivate body's emotions and memories through the mind's imagination. Based on Body Weather Laboratory, a kinesthetic and movement research founded by dancer/farmer Min Tanaka, this workshop offers a unique mixture of training that investigates the body as a dynamic, transformative entity and explores the intersection of body and various environments. It challenges the participants to examine the preconceived boundaries of physical expression, and leads them towards the primal, potent state of the body, devoid of ego.

The workshop focuses on:

  • partner breathing and relaxation
  • rigorous and dynamic rhythm training strengthening the core
  • sensory work that increases sensitivity to the visual/auditory/kinetic stimul
  • exploration of body in its relation to various environments
  • improvisational etudes

Essential Body I: Access to the Inner Muse

Activate body's emotions and memories through the mind's imagination. This workshop offers a unique mixture of training that investigates the depth of the body. Exercises incorporate partner breathing and relaxation and rigorous and dynamic rhythm training strengthening the core, enhancing listening and expanding the range of movements. The following sensory work increases sensitivity to the visual/auditory/kinetic stimuli and excavates body's primal instinct. Through the synchronicity of body and mind, the potent transparent state of the body emerges, devoid of ego.

Essential Body II: Body and Environment

Does the body stop at the edge of the body? How does body's state change depending on the environment? Is it possible to exist in the immediate environment and the environment in one's distant memory at the same time? This workshop examines the relationship between body and various environments in time and space. The participants will explore how objects, lights, space, sound/music, and voice affect the body and vice versa.

Exercises include solo, duet, and group improvisation.

Essential Body III: Characterization

How to create a character that goes beyond your limits? This workshop helps you discover the buried life of a character through the power of imagination. The exercises that involve the mind and body, voice and movement integration are designed to activate senses and enhance the sensitivity to the constant shift in the state of being. By going through the sequenced exercises from the animal and object work to the sensory and image work, the participants will investigate the metamorphosis into the characters in depth from various angles.

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® CLASS

Unlock the secrets in our bodies through Awareness Through Movement created by Moshe Feldenkrais. An experience of gentle and minimal movement sequences are designed to help us bring deep awareness back to ourselves. Exercises incorporate movement-based imagery and visualization pertain to perception, cognition, and other aspects of motor function. Throughout the lessons, students experience the enhancement of posture and balance, sense of integrity, and access to broader range of motion and mobility.