SOM(A) Dansa ’19

SOM(A) Dansa body – dance – wellness

August 24th to 28th 2019

with Marina Tsartsara, Simona Quartucci and Olga Tragant

SOM(A) DANSA is a 5 day residential course or stage, in tragantCamp (l’Alzina de l’Aguda, la Noguera, Lleida).

Throughout this five days we will work on various corporal-somatic and dance practices that pay special attention to:

self-listening
conscience
exploration
self-awareness
and creativity
towards personal growth

Professionals of each method or line of work will accompany us throughout this journey full of experiences, and also, will help us to discover and expand our potentials.

It will be days to enjoy yourself and others in a quiet and very pleasant rural environment, which will bring us proximity, exchange and learning.

Adressed to anyone interested in body practices and dance who want to improve their physical and / or emotional well-being. It is open to people with different ages and experiences in body and dance work.

CLASSES / CONTENTS

The stage will integrate the following practices:

MORNING WALK with Olga Tragant
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 with Marina Tsartsara
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.
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AVAILABLE BODY Anatomy, awareness and movement with Olga Tragant
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.
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DANCE – THEATER Moving myself with my characters with Simona Quartucci
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 ‘legs’ of our unique personality.
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CREATIVE MOVEMENT with Olga Tragant
In 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 discover the possibilities of our bodies to develop corporal/physical vocabulary and to give form and expression to feelings, impulses, energies, images, memories, etc.
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AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT with Simona Quartucci
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.
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MEDITATION – MINDFULNESS with Marina Tsartsara
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.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Dates: from 24th to 28th of August 2019
Arrival: Saturday 24th between 10 – 11h
Ending: Wednesday 28th after lunch
Lodging and meals: in tragantCamp

Price:

Price with everything included: 395€ (classes, lodging, meals and activities)
Price without lodging: 335€
Precio without lodging and meals: 295€

Limited capacity

Applications and payments

SCHEDULE

ACOMMODATION, MEALS AND TRANSPORTS

acommodation
We provide a shared room for the group. It is a comfy space with tatamis, futons and some beds.
We can also offer a double room with the extra charge of 10€/night.

meals
Our cooker will prepare healthy and delicious meals, with seasonal products and manly vegetarian ingredients.

transport

For the courses, we try to organize ourselves and share available car seats among participants.
One can get to Ponts (7km away from l’Alzina) by bus, on the route from Barcelona to Andorra, or one can get to Cervera (25km away from l’Alzina) on the route from Barcelona to Cervera. If you arrive by bus, we can come to look for you at the station. It is essential to organize it previously with time.
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ABOUT tragantCAMP

what is tragantCamp?
Headquarters of tragantDansa located in the rural setting of l’Alzina de L’Aguda, in the Noguera region (Lleida).
It was born with the desire to be able to offer various activities in a natural environment, a place to enjoy and concentrate without the distractions, rhythm and stress that cities can generate.

what do we do?
MOVEMENT WORKS – DANCE – BODY PRACTICES – CONSCIOUSNESS – CREATION – ART – NATURE

A program of Residential Courses during weekends, long weekends and holidays.
Rental of spaces for groups, ensembles, companies or individuals who want to organize: workshops or courses, rehearsals, laboratories, work meetings, seminars or retreats, etc. in a space that allows concentration, coexistence and / or silence.

who are we?
14 years ago, Olga Tragant and visual artist Jaume Amigó, acquired some old chicken farms that had been in disuse for many years. Throughout this time they have been restoring these spaces. For years, the space held the work studio of artist Jaume Amigó and now we have recently opened a space for dance activities and body practices.

where are we?
tragantCAMP is located in l’Alzina de l’Aguda, an small village of 20 inhabitants located in the Noguera region (Lleida), between the towns of Guissona and Ponts, 125 km away from Barcelona and 110 km away from Lleida. Surrounded by wheat and rye fields, and some small forests of oaks and holm oaks, it constitutes a quiet and peaceful environment, with especially starry skies.