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CI AND CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT
Through life I´ve practiced a great variety of sports and disciplines such as acrobatics, dance, martial arts, Parkour, and free running among others. Doing so allowed me to get in close contact with my body and observe through the mix of disciplines in my own experience, the base (or logic) of movement and how our body functions (since it is common to all disciplines).
All of this added to my experience with expression through my career as an cctor and dancer is what brings me to offer sessions of Contact Improvisation and Conscious Movement work outs.
WHY LEARNING TO MOVE WHEN YOU CAN MOVE TO LEARN?
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation is a shared dance between two or more people in which the physical point of contact becomes the focus of exploration of movement through improvisation. There are no rules to follow in the movement, it is a free form where no one leads. It is the result of a constant listening. Where and how am I being touched? We focus on what we receive and answer with honesty, physically, creating a chain of movement by action and reaction.
It is an experience of great connection, listening and healing fitting for people of all ages and conditions.
To learn the form of Contact Improvisation we put our focus on listening sensations arising through contact. Now a day, it is common to learn through exercises that facilitate technique of specific movements. The risk of that is to lose ourselves in those means as if they were the objective, stoping this way the moment to moment awareness of the dance, anticipating and trying to control and get a result.
This ends up being the opposite to the fluidity of Contact Improvisation, in which you never know which is gonna be the next movement. It is important to not confuse these exercises that offer you vocabulary for dancing as the end, but to observe them as processes that happen and you must not look for.
We keep present, listening with an active relaxation in the body; not in the mind trying to create something.
We explore the infinite possibilities that our body offers when moving in contact with other people, the different levels in which to move, the different type of contact, how to share the weight and our center, how to get to “fly” with the other and much more. These are some of the points we explore in the sessions I offer:
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Listening of contact
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Grounding and center listening
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Falling and rolling
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Lifting and fliying
CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT
Conscious movement is the approach I use to share the different disciplines, be it CI, acrobatics, martial arts or Parkour. All of them are based on the same basis or logic of the movement. I try to focus on the physical awareness, in choosing every movement and not do them inconsciously or out of habit. To reach that, I use different exercises and activities that empower and incentive intuition and playfulness. Through them, we get to the understanding of the technique experiencing it.
I offer personal trainings focusing on the different disciplines depending on each person and their needs or desires.
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