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Nien Mari Chatz

“NOMADANCE”

Contact Improvisation & Creative Movement
with Nien Mari Chatz (Germany/France)

You do not have to be good…
you only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…
(Mary Oliver, Dream Work)

Listening to oneself and our body’s intelligence might reveal to us the
secrets of our inner landscapes, inviting us to dance and share our vision of the present moment.
A poem, a partner, music, silence, or the empty space can become the beginning of a journey.
Dancing sun, moon, ocean, shadow with our hearts and spirits ready, will awaken our appetites to move and might transform us into dancing nomads who embark into new adventures without knowing which path will present itself.
We will practice :
Becoming a witness to the body and nourishing its knowledge, discovering new ways of moving.
Dancing without effort from our own feeling of beeing where we are and who we are.
Improvising together with a partner without loosing ourselves.
Exploring acceptance, softness, letting go, as well as manipulation, decisionmaking and getting wild.
Our explorations will be grounded on
1.Bodywork and Hands-on practice (based on Release and Body Mind Centering)
2.Contact improvisation
3.Authentic Movement

Nien Mari Chatz
NMCH, born in Germany,
completed her dance studies at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, during which time she studied Release technique, Body Mind Centering and Contact Improvisation with the founders of these forms. From 1986- 96 NMCH has been faculty of the SNDO , and is actualy teaching in France and abroad.
In performance, NMCH collaborates with dancers, choreographers and visual artists internationnally.

As a dancer and teacher I am interested in creating experimental situations which allow the body to feel good and confident. I trust that learning through play can go far, that silence and patience are interesting, that clear fokus and lightness in dancing allow for both, non-violent communication and animalistic power, and that such practice will free up new, more subtle, authentic and diversified possibilies for creative interaction.
I am interested in the integration of dancing and living, and in healing through creating.

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Shahar Dor

“Improvisational solo performance intensive”

In this intensive we will practice ways to create a poetic, intimate & exposed presence in improvisational solo performance.
We will aim to extend movement possibilities and creative freedom, while specifying the physical story telling in relation to space, scenery, coherency and image. We will work to connect between inner world - our unique intelligence and vocabulary and the need in a specific & communicative body while presenting work.
We will work in solo, small groups and in front of the big group.

This practice consists of being moment to moment, having a communicative, breathing body and a taste of artistic vision as we perform.

we will approach the work in a gentle and dynamic way opening up to the opportunities embodied in the details of body, movement, space, breath, posture, technique, musicality….thoughts…point of view, allowing our character to communicate a reality through a relaxed and available body and mind.

Participants are asked to bring supporting costumes/objects (dress..suit..cloth.. shoes..umbrella..water pipes…) that will allow them more playfulness, depth, troth, satisfaction, possibilities, challenge and creativity as they explore and show work.

Shahar Dor is a movement artist. He explores, perform and teach the art of improvisational performance through movement, theatre, music and video. In the last 10 years Shahar has been deeply involved with improvisation; collaborating with artists from all over the world, leading various dance & theatre projects, teaching and performing in Israel and Europe.
Shahar is known for his character driven and cinematic approach towards the body in performance. His practice and exploration draws on a variety of movement-presence-performance techniques, vocal work, music & video, martial arts and the practice of meditation. His image based teaching and works creates an extensive spontaneous expression and shows a remarkable degree of humor, sensitivity and freedom in the communicative aspects spontaneous performance.
In 2005 Shahar formed Hunch- a movement, improvisation and Performance training program. An 8 month course, aimed for people whose interest is in deepening their practice of art and presence through the exploration and practice of the performer’s skills.

"please note the additional request:

Participants are asked to bring supporting costumes/objects (dress...suit...cloth...shoes...umbrellas...water pipes...) that will allow them more playfulness, depth, reality, satisfaction, possibilities, challenge, creativity...as they explore and show their work."

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Orly Portal and Shai Dayan (Israel)

"Music and Dance ‘On the Way Home"

The Five Great Elements Workshop

Music and dance are powerful primary channels, through which one can experience his or her oneness with existence. In ancient cultures they were used as ritual tools to bridge between man and God, but in western society they got placed upon a stage, fenced off as art, and lost of their accessibility as a daily, direct, joyful and liberating experience.
Music and dance are tools that enable us to learn the way to freedom - a state in which a person ceases to perceive oneself as separate from the whole, and becomes liberated from the need to be someone or something.
In the core of the experience of freedom lies the realization that there’s one source to all.

The Five Great Elements (according to Yogic tradition) - In one small seed treasured the entire universe. In order to manifest itself, the seed needs EARTH to contain and nourish it, WATER to revive it, AIR to breath and move its components, FIRE to transform them and ETHER to give space for all to happen.
Like the seed, man built of a body that contains and nourishes him, emotion that flows within, desire that drives him, knowledge that transforms him and a soul that unifies him. These are the cornerstones of our worldly existence.

The value of that perspective is that when we become aware of these forces, and the way they act in the outside as well as the inside world, we can learn a lot about ourselves and the world; and maybe it can remind us that we are not a separate and limited unit in a strange world, as we tend to feel, but the world itself.

Each person has his own particular constitution, built out of a different combination of the great elements; no two humans are the same. But the deeper we go, the clearer it becomes that we are, in fact, unified.

In the intensive we will explore end experience the great elements with our body, mind and spirit. Each day will be dedicated to a different element.
We will use movement, music, voice and conversation to get familiar with the different forces. We will witness their manifestations in the different levels of being, from the simplest body functions, to the more subtle states of awareness. It is a process of unfoldment, which means removing rather then adding.
Come with open minds and a sincere will to let go.

The workshop is for all freedom seekers.
Shai Dayan – Musician, meditation teacher and
alternative therapist. Composes music for dance projects and films. Studied philosophy and meditation in India for 5 years. In the last 11 years explores the connection between music and meditation, and their use as tools to understand our true nature.

Orly Portal – Dancer, teacher, movement and voice therapist. Developed a unique technique of belly dancing teaching as a healing tool. Instructs improvisation workshops and performed with different international artists around the world.

Orly and Shai have been running the On The Way Home project for two years now. It includes annual curses, one-time workshops and performances, both privet and institutional.
Both of them are artists not for the sake of art, but as a path to freedom, as a tool to peel off identities, personality and ego.

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BinahMO and Margrita R. Wahrer

"A PLAYFUL AND HUMEROUS DANCE-BODY-VOCAL-PERFORMANCE INTENSIVE"

We are discovering serenity of our authentic individual and original movements between the wide range of inhibition and childlike behaviour. Our intention is to reveal unintentional and relaxed professionality through serenity and grotesque from the hairtips to the big toe.This workshop gives us the opportunity to discover movements and moments with ourselves and others in dance, poetry, schrillness, homour and silence.

BinahMO

is a movment dance artist. At the moment she is a solo performer in various ways for adults and children. She is also offering dancetheatre workshops and healing sessions for adults and children.

Margrita R. Wahrer

Freischaffende Schauspielerin, Tänzerin, Clownin, Kinikclownin und Stelzenläuferin. Mitwirkung in verschiedenen Tanz- und Theaterproduktionen. Entwicklung von eigenen Tanztheaterstücken, Clownsstücken, Stelzentheaterfiguren und Maskenfiguren. Auf Bühnen, Tanzböden, Gassen, Marktplätzen, Mittelaltermärkten, Wäldern, Kuhweiden und vieles mehr.......................... Improvisiert in Krankenhausfluren- und zimmern als ?Frau Blume? auf Kinderstationen.