contents SOM(A) DANZA ’19

 

CLASSES / CONTENTS

 

MORNING WALK

We will start the day in contact with nature, going for a walk through the rural environment, through the paths between fields. Halfway through, we’ll stop to work on breathing, muscle mobility and stretching exercises. With this walk we will awaken the body, listening and the senses.

 

BODY MIND CENTERING ®

BMC is a psycho – corporal practice based on experiential anatomy and childhood psychomotor development.
In this practice of embodiment we will observe different body systems (their function, quality of expression and wisdom) from which we listen and give personal and creative expression to our bodies and they matters.

In this workshop we will pay special attention to the actual patterns of our bodies and movements, and also to other structures that belong to our embrionary life. We will use the exploration of movements, the touch-contact, the voice / vibration and the richness of artistic materials, to explore, express and integrate our mind-body unity and directing our unique essence. We will explore ways to inhabit our bodies and the relationship with others.

The experiential study of Mind Centering encompasses all body systems: bone structure, nervous system, muscles, organs, fluids, connective tissues, ligaments, endocrine system, as well as perception, reflexes and embryology. It is a method developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

“There is something that is expressed in nature in the form of patterns. We, as part of nature, we also form patterns. The mind is like the wind and the body like sand, if you want to know how the wind is blowing, look at the sand”.

 (Bonnie Bainbridge, BMC)

 

AVAILABLE BODY Anatomy, awareness and movement

We will start working on the anatomical study of the body. From an experiential work and palpation, visualization, sensitization and mobilization exercises, we will take conscience of the own bone and articulate structure, as well as of the muscular activity.

We will go from anatomy to sensory perception and from it, to work in relation to different movement patterns and coordinations. We will learn from exploration and self-discovery from very specific and other more open guidelines, and also from small sequences and actions of movement.

We will focus on the motors involved in the movement, the organization and relationships that the body establishes, as well as the different ways to go through a gesture, a movement. Through a fine and deep listening we will work individually and with the help of various materials and partners to find more freedom of action, efficiency and quality in the movement.

DANCE  THEATER  Moving myself with my characters

We are used to identifying ourselves with a unique way of being: I am like that! and this unique version of oneself, this unique character probably limits our wide range of possibilities to act and move in life. In a playful way and through the expressive movement, improvisations, music, theatrical games, dance, active meditation, free writing, sound and voice, we will bring to the stage those characters, hidden behind the ‘drop scene’ of our unique personality. We incarnate ourselves in “them” or, rather, in our unknowns, discovering their movements, thoughts and words and their way of relating to other characters.

Moving in a body that we may not recognize and letting ourselves be surprised by it will help us to update ourselves and become more open, free and creative beings.

 

AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT

From a circle of people that contains an empty space available I move and I let myself be moved by my internal impulses. Silence is the music. The closed eyes are the guide towards the unexpected, unknown or known movement, towards my internal listening that moves, that emits sound. You look at me, you are testimony of my experience without judgments, without prejudice. My trip is your trip. Your trip is my trip.

Authentic Movement is a wonderful practice, which without stimulation of external music and with closed eyes, allows a deep connection with our inner self, which we perhaps do not know and which needs to be expressed, taking shape through movement, sound and of all the impulses that arise in absolute freedom of expression. A deeply creative experience that starts from one’s own body and the present moment.

 

IMPROVISATION – CREATION

En la primera part d’aquesta sessió introduirem algunes eines i recursos a nivell creatiu que ens ajudaran a potenciar la nostra capacitat de creació i d´expressió a través del cos i del moviment. Posarem l’atenció a textures i qualitats físiques del cos i del moviment (energia/pes/força), i a la relació entre el moviment i espai, el temps i els altres companys/es.
I en la segona meitat de la sessió, donarem forma i expressió a sensacions, impulsos, energies, imatges, que hagin pogut sorgir al llarg dels dies de Som(a) Dansa.

In the first part of  this session we will introduce tools and resources from a creative level that will help us to increase our creative and expressive capacities, through the body and movement. We will pay attention to the textures and physical qualities of the body and movement (energy, weight, force) and to the relation between movement and space, time, and the other peers.

In the second half of the session we will  to give form and expression to feelings, impulses, energies and images, that have emerged during the days  at Som(a) Dansa.

 

MEDITATION – MINDFULNESS

We will work on our ability to pay attention to the experience of the present moment with interest, curiosity and acceptance.

 

 

 

TEACHERS

 

Marina Tsartsara (Barcelona / Grecia)

Marina is an Educator and ‘Practitioner in Somatic Movement’ in Body Mind Centering BMC® and interdisciplinary artist.
She started on the path of art and well-being from a very young age and these concerns have continued to be the reason, the need and the inspiration of her work. She has combined the disciplines of dance, visual arts and body works for well-being.

Her passion is to feel and share the magical journey of life, connecting with herself and with others, developing creatively through enjoyment and listening.

In addition to being a Body-Mind Centering® teacher, Marina Tsartsara has a university degree in Dance and Visual Arts (Dance & Visual Arts in England), is certified as a Chinese Acupressure Therapeutic Massage, and also, she is an Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher and Holistic Life Coach (Holistic Harmony GR).

Since 2007 he has taught and has performed in many places, including: Barcelona, ​​Athens, Rome, Venezuela, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Glasgow, London, Wisconsin and Brighton. Since 2013 and thanks to the help of Arts Council England and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, she has been doing research and acting in galleries and hospitals, uniting art and science.

 

Simona Quartucci  (Barcelona / Italy)


Breathing since she was a child the fusion of different artistic languages, she was trained as a dancer, actress, artistic director and teacher. She graduates in Folkwanghochschule directed by P. Baush and as an actress in the Mesner Technique Program of Javier Galitó Cava. 


She works for choreographers, plastic artists, theater and cinema directors. As the director of Cia Rasatabula creates various pieces of theater-dance and physical theater co-produced by Mercat de les Flors and Sitges Festival Internacional de Teatre, presented in Spain and Italy.

She was taught in Authentic Movement with A. Waksman and B. Waissman, in Integrative Corporal Work and as Emotional Facilitator of Gestalt orientation.
 In between dance, theater and self-awareness, she has taught workshops of dance-theater, corporal expression and body language, and improvisation techniques in different centers in Italy and Catalonia. She is also facilitator in the development of abilities, behaviors and attitudes, management of difficulty and stress, personal and group growth for people and companies such as Afinity, Infojobs, Pirelli, among others.

 

Olga Tragant (Barcelona)

Choreographer, dancer, dance and movement teacher. She was trained in dance in the United States in University of Illinois and in New York in Movement Research, Susan Klein School, Trisha Brown School (New York, 1993 – 1995). She also studied one year in the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam, 1997). Olga is also graduated in Science Degree in Physical Activity, UB, INEF, and she has a Master in Psychology of Physical Activity (University of Illinois). 
Parallel to the dance, she has trained in Anatomy for the Movement with Blandine Calais-Germain and is currently studying the Feldenkrais Method training. As a choreographer she has developed a series of shows and creative projects that have been shown in Catalonia and in various European countries and also in the United States, Japan, Mexico and Morocco.

She started teaching 25 years ago and since then she has taught contemporary dance, anatomy-consciousness and improvisation-creation. She currently runs and is a teacher in the Formation [inside Movement] in tragantDansa.

Since 2002, she has been leading tragantDansa [education and creation in movement], and recently she has expanded her activity in tragantCamp, a rehabilitated space in the rural environment.