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"Awareness through Movement and Improvisation" 12hour intensive workshop with Christina Klissiouni
From Saturday 18 June 2016 -  03:00pm
To Sunday 19 June 2016 - 07:00pm

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12hour intensive workshop with Christina Klissiouni 

Awareness through Movement and Improvisation

based on Developmental Movement & Somatic practices

"Moving Roots" 

18-19 June

Saturday 15:00-18:00 and 19:00-21:00, Sunday 11:00-14:00 and 15:00-19:00

The earth is constantly present and available providing us with support to discover functional tools in order to move with ease. We often unconsciously interfere with this natural relationship with the force that attracts our body to earth. The way we resist gravity and levity creates our personal habits and our experience of self. Holding unnecessary tension defines the way we communicate in the world with our posture. Our perception of reality is shaped by our level of awareness, our sense of flow in stillness and in movement. 

During this weekend we will practice primarily in slow pace, sensing our body through floor work. We will discover support and coordination through the connection of our breath, inner movement and developmental movements. We will connect and integrate our centre with our periphery. We will develop flow as we play with alignment and movement in stability. Organically structured physical work will lead us to improvisational scores. Free form dancing with presence opens up creative physical dialogues with each other. Our dance may surprise us and we may discover that awakening to our roots can bring us the joy of suspension and flying.

Part of the workshop will take place outside in nature. Thus we will open up our sensory and motor perception, our imagination and playfulness, our curiosity mind, to the external factors of space/time in the environment. In this way we will have a chance to extend our possibilities of expression in a safe way that offers us a reflection and understanding of our being through contemplative movement and interaction.
Open to all levels.

In order for the workshops to take place a group must be completed so please contact Christina: +30 6932 190273 or info@presentbody> BEFORE the 27th of MAY for entry and details.

χριστίνα bioChristina Klissiouni (Greece) is an international dance teacher, performer, choreographer and founder of Helix dance company. She is also a body-psychotherapist and shiatsu practitioner. She is based in Athens. Her work is a 30 year-long exploration of movement/dance study based on Somatics & Contact Improvisation. She started her practice in Contact Improvisation in 1987 studying with the first generation of teachers in NYC (1986-90). Besides her training as a contemporary dancer (Merce Cunningham technique), very early on in her studies, she started exploring Body Mind Centering, Alexander technique, Yoga, Authentic movement, Kinetic awareness, Skinner releasing and other practices that deeply informed her dance practice based on experiential anatomy. Improvisation has always been the foundation of her work. She runs her studio Present Body in the center of Athens since 2009, teaches and performs in numerous festivals/venues in Europe, USA, Asia cultivating “contact” based on awareness, on all levels.
She has co-taught intensive workshops and/or performances with Nita Little, Ray Chung, Ka Rustler, Mary Prestidge, Nien Mari Chatz, Angela Doniy, Shahar Dor, Saliq Savage and many others. She has been deeply influenced by the teachings of master teacher of contemplative movement- ritualistic performance and awareness practice based on Vipassana meditation and improvisation-Suprapto Syryodarmo from Indonesia.
Recently she taught intensive workshops for the second time at Freiburg CI festival(2014), at Israeli CI festival(2014), in Nantes, London, at Grenoble festival(2015), in Tubingen(Germany), Oslo, Budapest improv. festival, St. Petersberg solo festival, and numerous other venues.  

 

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