DANCE AS A FORM OF PLAY: Contact tango Berlin Workshop & Jam

DANCE AS A FORM OF PLAY
Contact tango Berlin Workshop & Jam

Contact Impro Tango, Tai chi, Fusion, biomechanics and somatic elements

Play is essential for our creativity: it allows us to remain adaptable to life’s continuous changes, finding new solutions.
Play is a way to keep our brain’s long term plasticity through continuous learning.
Play is an embodied experience of joy, essential for our happiness.
And becomes a healthy booster that cuts across many domains of life.
Play is essential to develop and maintain healthy relations because it allows us to take social risks. It develops trust by sharing our vulnerabilities.

In this workshop, we will play into dance, and dance into play.
Through play and games we will approach the structures underlying Contact Impro and Tango, with the intention to develop a unique and personal mix.
We will also use elements of tai chi, fusion dance, biomechanics and somatic to experience a movement diversity that is vital for our well-being.

This open combination, boundless of a given style, developed in a joyful environment, provides the possibility to deepen the understanding of ourselves and our physical, emotional relation with society and Nature.

FOR WHOM:
This workshop is open to people of all ages and experiences. No need of dance partner neither of previous experience to participate. Just a will to put yourself into playing mood.

DATE & TIME SCHEDULE:
WORKSHOP:
Saturday 14 Nov. from 11 to 18.30hrs
Sunday 15 from 10.30 to 14.45hrs

JAM MIX:
Saturday 14 Nov. from 19.15 to 22hrs.

JAMMIX COST: 7 to 15E

WORKSHOP COST:
Sliding scale 95E - 120E before 31st October. After 110E - 135E.
There is the possibility to attend just on Saturday. Discount for full time students & unemployed.

WORKSHOP & JAM PLACE:
Zentrum für Yoga und Stimme. Paul Linke Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin. 4. Etage, Hinterbau. Die Klingel für das 4. OG befindet sich an der Gewerbetür. The doorbell for the 4th floor is located at the garage door.

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INFO
[email protected] or call +49 176 2145 2059 via Whatsapp/ Signal or Telegram.

Javier Cura is a movement activist. The interview by Daniel Dietz was created for acTVism Munich

“The Meaning of Movement”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PNRKQKT5c&ab_channel=acTVismMunich

OTHER VIDEOS:
Underwater contact tango dance: https://vimeo.com/246302562
Contact tango: https://vimeo.com/110580854
Other videos:
With Leilani Weiss www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFejqW6DlVo&t=3s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U

With Linda Bufali www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zqASLdktg
With Brigitta Winkler www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc
With Clelia Fumanelli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-NHJgDp5w

With Kami Kvetinova https://www.facebook.com/100084442020246/videos/1133605731340205/
With Sabine Parzer www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckX859CTRLo

Javier Cura is a teacher, visual artist, theatre director and movement activist and coach who has worked extensively in the realms of movement, dance and theatre. He has been invited to teach and perform at Fabrik Potsdam Tanztage, Goettingen Contact Impro Festival and Phantastango, Farma Dance Theatre Festival and Alchemie Tango in Prague, C.I.R.A in Strasbourg, as well as to CI Festival San Francisco (USA). He has dedicated himself to researches in anthropological and sociological themes to develop projects in social theatre in Italy, Morocco and Germany. He has collaborated on a research on expression in Contact Improvisation at the Berlin Free University. He has worked as movement advisor for Sickle Cell patients in London Royal Hospital. Through a mix of disciplines that nourish movement diversity, body awareness, consensual touch and creativity, he has created The Ecological Body, with the intention to reconnect with oneself, other beings and the Earth, in an emotional, physical and spiritual way. He defines himself as a movement activist. He encourages people to take care of their own vital movement needs, as these have a massive impact on our physical, emotional and spiritual health, as well as on our Planet’s health.
www.javiercura.net