Description
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬
✺ A 4-Day Workshop in Movement, Dance, Poetry, Imagination & Instant Composition ✺
📍 Dance Yurt, Aegina Island, Greece
📅 22–26 September 2026
An open level workshop for movers, dancers, performers, artists, and anyone with a curiosity for embodied creativity, including those with little or no experience.
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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬
The Poetic Body is an immersive movement and body practice that explores the fertile meeting place between dance, poetry, imagination, and the creative act of composing in real time / instant composition.
In this workshop, we will approach the body as a vessel for listening, a source of creation, and a doorway into the unknown. Through movement, instant composition, poetry writing, touch, and relational practices, we will explore how dance emerges from deep listening and the navigation of inner and outer landscapes.
We will practice listening—to the body, to the space, to one another, and to the many voices that inhabit us. We will learn to recognize and trust the material that arises when we move: images, atmospheres, emotions, rhythms, dreams. Rather than deciding what to create, we will learn how to receive, follow, shape, and compose, in real time, what is already asking to emerge. There is much more available to us that what we can think of, it just needs an attentive inside to the sensing and the courage of a body that dares to awaken, step in, see and share.
Working in solo, duet, and group practices, we will explore the principles of instant composition: the art of creating choreography in real time. We will investigate relationships through presence, movement, touch, and non-cognitive forms of communication and perception, discovering how individual imaginations can meet and weave collective worlds, revealing forms of intelligence, urgency, and wisdom larger than our individual selves.
Alongside movement, we will work with poetry writing as a practice of revelation. Words will become carriers of presence, organisms that call in form, openings into experience, and companions to the dancing body. We will move between writing and dancing, seeing and being seen, allowing both expressions to serve the manifestation of each dance piece.
Part of our time together will also take place outdoors, tuning our attention toward the living world and cultivating a listening that extends beyond the human voice. Nature will become both partner and teacher.
Throughout these four days, we will cultivate sensitivity towards our body's natural intelligence, engaging into guided bodywork and touch based practices. We will learn to navigate the inner rivers set in motion through movement and to trust the intelligence that emerges when the body leads.
The Poetic Body invites us to experience the body as landscape, oracle, and creative force capable of bringing us closer to the source. It is a practice of entering the unknown with curiosity, from a sensitive place, allowing movement to become the language through which the invisible materializes and becomes tangible, both to ourselves and to others.
✺ Limited spots available. We will be a small and intimate group of maximum 15 participants.
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𝗣𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗨𝗦
Aegina Island is very well connected at 1h boat ride from Piraeus, the port of Athens, and the port is 1h metro ride straight from Athens Airport. Ferries to Aegina run regularly throughout the day and cost around 12€.
The Dance Yurt is located in the lands of Oikia Karapanou.
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𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘
450€ (All included)
🐦⬛ Early Bird: 400€ (before 10th August 2026)
The price includes:
✓ Full workshop participation
✓ Accommodation
✓ Three fresh vegetarian meals per day
✺ For those in financial difficulty, we offer 2 reduced spots at 350€ in exchange for some helper tasks during the workshop. Contact us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to check for availability. This reduced price is also applied for those living and working in Aegina. ✺
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𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Accommodation is provided either:
⛺ In your own tent (please bring your camping gear)
or
⛺ In shared Bell Tents (maximum 4 people per tent)
Only 8 Bell Tent places available.
Showers and toilet facilities are available on site.
Participants who prefer a different accommodation option are welcome to arrange their own stay. We recommend Stephanie Studios, a lovely local accommodation located approximately 10 minutes walking distance from the Dance Yurt.
Workshop only (without accommodation / find your own accommodation): 380€
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𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗘
𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 22
• From 13:00 – Arrivals and Settling In
• 16:30–19:30 – First Session
• 19:30–20:30 – Dinner
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 23, 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 24 & 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 25
• 09:00–10:00 – Breakfast
• 10:30–13:30 – Morning Session
• 14:00–15:00 – Lunch
• 16:30–19:30 – Afternoon Session
• 19:30–20:30 – Dinner
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 26
• 09:00–10:00 – Breakfast
• 10:30–13:30 – Morning Session
• 14:00–15:00 – Lunch
• 16:30–17:30 – Open Sharing / Showing (optional)
We will open the space to some local and dear audience, and share a bit of the work we have been doing.
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🌿 Limited to 15 participants.
This workshop is designed as an intimate gathering, allowing for depth, attention, and meaningful exchange within the group.
If this invitation resonates with you, we warmly welcome you to join us.
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https://www.maria-sanchez-alonso.com
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