SUBSTANCE AND SPACE Body-Mind Centering® into Contact Improvisation
with Nina Wehnert
October 29 - November 2
Substance and Space
Body-Mind Centering® into Contact Improvisation with Nina Wehnert
In our early lives in fluid environment and through fluid movement our body tissues grew. We went through a history of folding and unfolding, of migrating, spiralling, embracing and touch. These aspects are still inherent in all our body tissues and in our many ways of expression of life. We will use this understanding of body growth and travel through the richness of embryology - a story of fluidity and space; receiving and giving, condensing and expanding, being and resting.
We will explore milestones in our movement development - aspects of an intrinsic movement alphabet and initial movement vocabulary that formed the sentences, poems, novels of our movement and being. We will open to the inner potential for growth and continuous learning through the relation with ourselves and the world around us.
Movement alone and with a partner, specific anatomical details and clear touch, will take us into the dance. Basic Contact Improvisation aspects will be deepened and provide the ground for more physically challenging dances that can develop from the supposedly “simple”. We will explore fluids, organs and our nervous system and integrate them into the research of the dances.
Nina Wehnert is a certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®). She is part of the core team of moveus, the licensed BMC® Training Program in Germany. She lives in Berlin and Italy and teaches BMC® internationally at Contact Improvisation Festivals, in Workshops and Trainings since many years. She has studied Contemporary Dance and Yoga, is dancing Contact Improvisation since about 30 years. She is offering her own BMC® Training Program in Berlin and is also teaching with movement artisans (axis syllabus) in Berlin.
You can find recorded online classes on her website:
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