FLOW & CONNECTION
Dance and somatic practice for choreographic research
© Mira Matthew
- Aimed at performing artists, dancers, actors, performers, musicians, visual artists, as well as anyone engaged in a bodily practice.
This class offers a space of embodied practice designed to awaken the body, refine perception, and cultivate a state of presence and availability.
Through a sensory and dynamic approach, the practice invites a return to breath, grounding, and the living relationship between body, space, time and movement. Particular attention is given to areas of support and transmission of movement — especially the pelvis, approached as a center of gravity, a space of circulation, and a point of support for the overall organization of the body.
The class brings together tools drawn from somatic practices and fundamental principles of contemporary dance: weight, fluidity, rhythm, contact, and spatial awareness. Working with gravity and the continuity of movement supports both physical and perceptual availability, opening toward an organic and embodied dance.
The explorations evolve from individual listening toward relational and collective dimensions, opening spaces for improvisation and instant composition. Touch, imagination, and listening are proposed as supports for developing kinesthetic availability and quality of presence, within a framework of respect and consent.
This is a sensitive training conceived as a practice to nourish the body, creativity, and performativity.
Objectives
• To release the nervous system and reconnect with a refined bodily listening
• To develop fluidity, grounding, and bodily availability
• To nourish imagination and creativity through lived bodily experience
• To explore the relationship between pelvis, movement, space, and time
Approach
The practice is grounded in:
• guided meditations and states of presence (inspired by sensitive dance and fasciatherapy)
• experiential anatomy
• fundamental principles of dance
• improvisation and instant composition
• elements of contact and relational work, within a framework of respect and consent
Contact me for further info: francescaritasaraullo@gmail.com