TAŃCE PODOBIEŃSTWA
 

What shapes us, what are the threads weaving our life beyond our conscious acts? 

Our body is a storage of memories linked to generations of people behind us.

It is a mystery stored in our blood, in our genes, in our bodies. What fears, joys or pleasures passed on me?  What is me and what is them in me? 

We will safely address these questions, in multiple creative ways, mainly through the body and movement improvisations. We will open the body to new impressions, to discover shapes and possibilities, and activate the imagination.

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We will do movement meditations, contact improvisations, gesture development, performative constellations, creative writing, creating objects and developing experimental performative outcomes mixing our stories with fictions.

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We will incorporate exercises and techniques from the domains of dance, martial arts, yoga, and traditional massage practices, but above all drawing on practices developed through years of exploration and investigation into the integration of the body and creative expression of the actor. 

Our body, voice and mind needs more than fast daily superficial attention. We seek for space and time to truly meet the hidden treasures within the self. In this workshop we will take a journey to the challenging process of repatterning invisible habits, intending to see, accept and move on to whatever lies after that. We will seek and experience the FLOW - the ancient mystery of uncompromising presence, state of extraordinary connection with others in the momentum of improvisation, while mind and feet keeps grounded.

“The Dance of Likeness is  a wonderful workshop to make one feel fully alive and connected in their own body. In an atmosphere of heightened concentration and engagement – and by fostering a space of trust and awareness – Matej gently guides and challenges the participants to push the boundaries of their physicality and perception. Throughout this workshop, the participants develop a keen sensitivity to their surroundings and to each other – the group becomes one living entity, synchronicities happen. It’s an intense and even transformative experience of pure pleasure though movement and attunement to the others; the vital forces take over." 

Dr. Diana Serbanescu - a computer scientist and cultural scholar who leads the "Criticality of AI" project at Weizenbaum Institute and co-founded the "Institute for Creative Anticipation and Performing Arts" in Berlin.