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Contact Impro Tango, Tai chi, Fusion, biomechanics and somatic elementsPLAY is essential for our creativity: it allows us to remain adaptable to life’s continuous changes, finding new solutions.
Play is a way to keep our brain’s long term plasticity through continuous learning.
Play is an embodied experience of joy, essential for our happiness.
And becomes a healthy booster that cuts across many domains of life.
Play is essential to develop and maintain healthy relations because it allows us to take social risks. It develops trust by sharing our vulnerabilities.
In this workshop, we will play into dance, and dance into play.
Through play and games we will approach the structures underlying Contact Impro and Tango, with the intention to develop a unique and personal mix.
We will also use elements of tai chi, fusion dance, biomechanics and somatic to experience a movement diversity that is vital for our well-being.
This open combination, boundless of a given style, developed in a joyful 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. No need for a dance partner, no need for previous experience. Just the will to put yourself into a playful mood.
The workshop will be taught in English.
WHEN:
Friday 27.11, 18:30 - 21:00
Saturday 28.11, 10:30 - 17:00, open JAM: 17:30 - 19:00
Sunday 29.11, 9:30 - 14:00
WHERE:
BRNO, Okružní 1, škola Danza
PRICE - sliding scale
3400 - 4100 CZK. Recommended price: 3800 CZK
REGISTRATION:
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/gbLkJhXHJaQFTAmx9
By filling out the form, you agree to pay the course fee.
After registration, you will receive an email with instructions to pay an non-refundable advance of 1500,- CZK.
Your reservation is only valid after we have received your advance, so don’t hesitate, capacity is limited!
OPEN JAM:
On Saturday from 17:30 to 19:00, there will be a jam, which is also open to people not participating in the workshop.
INFO & QUESTIONS:
dialogyvpohybu [at] gmail .com
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Javier Cura is a movement activist. The interview by Daniel Dietz was created for acTVism Munich
“The Meaning of Movement”.
OTHER VIDEOS:
Underwater contact tango dance: https://vimeo.com/246302562
Contact tango: https://vimeo.com/110580854
Other videos:
With Leilani Weiss
With Linda Bufali
With Brigitta Winkler
With Clelia Fumanelli:
With Kami Kvetinova https://www.facebook.com/100084442020246/videos/1133605731340205/
With Sabine Parzer
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
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DANZA Brno, Okružní 433/1, 638 00 Brno, Česko, Brno, Czech Republic
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