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Skinner Releasing Technique & Improvisation | Lily Kiara 21-23 September 2024, 10:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:00, Brno
Part of the International festival of improvisation and instant composition
(*This workshop will be led in English. It is necessary that you understand fluent English to participate in this workshop.)
In this workshop we’ll start every day with Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT). Throughout the whole workshop we can experience directly how principles and practices in SRT (technique) support improvising and making dances in the moment (choreography). Subjects that might arise are for example: How may softening and availability affect timing? How may a sense of being in touch with your inner self affect the way you relate to your environment in the dance? How may presence affect clarity and radiance? How may embodied listening influence relationship? Becoming familiar with these practices in the body brings more choices and possibilities and can enhance, enrich or even transform the dances we (tend to) make.
The last day we may bring the practice outside in natural or public spaces. As part of the upcoming festival, some moment of the workshop will be opened for guests who are interested in the work to be present while we work. This moment will be announced to participants in time.
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a visionary approach to dance and movement training, developed by Joan Skinner (1924-2021); a detailed, refined and expansive technique. It is designed to find greater ease in our dancing and dynamic alignment with our environment and a refined tuning with our bodies and imagination. The teaching strongly draws on guided imagery and hands-on partner studies, supporting an experiential understanding of both the technical and the creative process in movement. There is an ongoing fine tuning in allowing ourselves to consciously fall into unknown creative territories. We allow ourselves to be intimately in touch with our inner body as well as align with something greater than ourselves through embodied listening. As we move with imagery that guides us through different layers of the whole self, the imagery can begin to move us. The poetic imagery can attune to physiological layers and includes the mystery of intangible layers present. Embodied listening, inner spaces, presence, dynamic stillness, softening and allowing are some of the essential areas of practice in Skinner Releasing (other than release), that support action into newness. Softening supports the releasing of strength through efficiency and responsiveness. Allowing encourages listening, to one's own dancing first. This way we can become more available. In the technical work and in creating dances, directing and allowing are side by side, as are stillness and action, receptivity and fierceness. Joan Skinner says: “Letting go is a discipline”. It is a continuous practicing. Giving in. Not giving up.
you do not have to be a fire
for
every mountain blocking you
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.
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nayyirah waheed, in salt
Some words on the difference between Release Techniques and Skinner Releasing Technique here: www.lilykiara.nl/srt.html
You can find and order the first book on SRT here, published in 2021: https:// www.triarchypress.net/srt.html Online Skinner Releasing
Network for resources and teachers: www.skinnerreleasingnetwork.org/
BIO:
Lily Kiara (Amsterdam, NL) | dance artist, facilitator, singer-songwriter Lily Kiara danced her first improvised performance on invitation of her dance teacher at the age of eight. She started her professional training at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam (1990-1994), at Bennington College (1992) and Movement Research in NYC. Further on, Skinner Releasing Technique (certified teacher since 2001), martial arts and training in Instant Composition with teachers such as Julyen Hamilton and Lisa Nelson have greatly influenced her work and evolving vision. The work of her late teacher Suprapto Suryodarmo, Joged Amerta Movement through practicing and performing in Indonesia, continues to inspire her on numerous levels. In 2021 she graduated in London as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.
Lily also is active as a folk singer-songwriter, solo and with her bands The RIVER and The Tall Tales. Lily Kiara has been teaching classes and workshops in Skinner Releasing Technique and Creating (Instant) Dances, sometimes together with a musician or lighting designer. She has been teaching at independent studios, companies, festivals, academies and art institutions throughout Europe, USA, Australia and Indonesia and also guides artists in their process of making their own work, tuning into exactly what it is they are making this moment and what could support them in doing so with their highest potential.
“Poetry and stillness are at the heart of my work; poetic embodiment and the depths of stillness, whether working with live musicians or in silence, in group or solo. I’m interested in refinement and layering, in detail of sensation and clarity of action. I love the mystery that’s so clearly part of the dance, while also figuring out how to make some of the intangible tangible in a way that we can actually practice and work through the body with what is beyond the merely physical. I’m interested in revealing what is in the space and stillness being created by the dancer(s) through the dance. When in the theatre I tend to work in stripped down spaces with nothing to gloss over or hide behind, dedicated to connect through the richness and intricacies of the dancing self and all that lives inside and alongside this”.
http://lilykiara.nl
Arnaud Beelen Photography at Tictac Art centre
PLACE:
Saturday&Sunday: Gym MUNI “Pod hradem”, Údolní 3, 602 00 Brno
Monday: Barokní sál Moravské Galerie - Místodržitelský palác / outside
PRICE: 3500czk/student 2800czk
INSCRIPTIONS: Please register by clicking on the following link https://forms.gle/amtPW8yv2xoh6Bqb9 . Thank you!
The project is financially supported by Statutory city of Brno, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic and National Recovery Plan.
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