Unplugged Main workshops_week 1 | DELICIA SEFIHA & LILACH PNINA LIVNE
Movement journeys and creative explorations around the practice of love and the spirit that was lost in the process of performing dance…
When: 6 – 13 August, 2023
Where: Lefkada, Greece
Deadline for applications: 30 July, 2023 / Early bird until 11th of June, 2023 !
Workshop 1
IMPRINT#LOVE by Delicia Sefiha
This workshop creates a space for connecting our bodies to ideas, experiences, understandings, questions and practices around love. A space for treating love as a new territory to be discovered and as a script we are all collectively composing. Love as an active embodied practice. Journeying through moments of movement improvisation, creative explorations, witnessing, reading, writing and sharing, we’ll connect with, question, challenge and express our love imprints; our embodied love practice systems, and, maybe, we’ll discover new ones.
What to expect:
#Moments of movement improvisation, creative explorations, witnessing, reading, writing and sharing.
#Movement journeys; we’ll build improvisation worlds, we’ll play, we’ll create our own love scores, we’ll find ways to release our embodied love practice systems (and maybe, we’ll discover new ones).
#An archive; we’ll attempt to find a collective way we can archive our shared journey.
More info about the workshop here https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops-posts/imprintlove-a-writers-workshop/
Workshop 2
Young Girls Wanna Dance Their Spirit by Lilach Pnina Livne
The workshop proposes a new logic of creating dance – using Livne’s ‘Spirit Dance’ method – to let the intuition, chance, real inner process, complex humanity, chaotic sexuality, aesthetic confrontations, independent thoughts, trippy imaginative visions – to exist while someone else is watching you!
Can we ever truly dance freely when someone else is watching? Can a “performative space”, where humans (performers) are meeting other humans (audiences), create a different logic for art? One that relies on full subjectivity as a tool for expression, rather than predefined images and frames?
The main goal of this workshop is awareness. To constantly be aware of who you are, as a “performer”, in every moment, and to sometimes, even in the middle of it all – to self reflect, re-construct, re-create, re-choose.
We will explore the spirit that was lost in the process of performing dance, and we will explore the creation of new relations between all the elements that make up the medium of dance and performance and how situations and moods such as friendship & compassion can be an integral part of experiencing dancing with other people in the same space – as a performing state in a dance performance and as an audience witnessing this kind of being. We will explore “where I am” in mind and body when I dance and challenge this question by different practices of “the body is here and the mind is there”.
More info about the workshop here
https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops-posts/young-girls-wanna-dance-their-spirit/
Daily schedule:
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:30 – 12:30 Workshop 1
12:30 – 16:30 Resting & Snack
16:30 – 19:30 Workshop 2
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
BIOS
Delicia Sefiha is a Greek/Jewish UK (London/Bristol) based dance artist working within a range of different aspects of dance, including performance, choreography, education and community projects. She holds a degree in Combined Creative Arts (Contemporary Dance and Literature) and an MRes in Choreography and Performance. She is currently working as a freelance dance artist for various theater, site specific, on screen and community projects, a dance educator and the artistic co-director of AllouAqui Dance Theatre, which she founded alongside dance artist Xavier De Santos. Her choreographic practice dives into our humanness and our fantasy worlds to playfully interweave them, creating stories and characters that reveal aspects of the realities they exist in while attempting to shift them. Often in a mix of movement, imagery, text and sound her work takes various shapes and forms; from dance theater performances and improvisation pieces to site-specific installations and screendance projects. Her current research explores intertextual relationships among movement/creative practice, literary texts and sociocultural practices.
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Lilach Pnina Livne is an artist, choreographer, dancer, researcher, feminist, mother. Developer of the movement & choreographic method: Spirit Dance Livne’s practice focuses on the relationship between choreography, philosophy & religion – questioning the potentiality of inventing other forms of life through art. Livne treats the performance medium as a field to practice our ‘body-being-in-the-world’ and her method offers a reversal in the logic of image creation which helps to manifest different kinds of realities, groups, gangs, organizations, forums, cults, etc She creates performances, exhibitions, parties, conferences, prayers, books, schools, labs and presents her works in visual art contexts, philosophy contexts and dance contexts. In 2021 Livne opened a New Art Institution which brings a new relation between Art & Reality called – LILACH PNINA LIVNE, at Israel. The institution contains four main elements: a Gallery, a School, a Magazine, a Studio. A place to practice the new method Livne brings into the world, a place where girls, teenagers, dancers, non-dancers, mothers, artists, non-artists, olders can unite, meet themselves and others through art and practice a different way of “body-being-in-the-world”. The institution is an independent initiation of Livne which appears from the need to create a new kind of system – a system that is supporting new kinds of relations – between the dancer and the choreographer, the artist and the institution, the artist and the curator, the experiencer and the viewer, the practice and the performance. A research-process-based project which pushes borders and is willing to expand the way we produce, consume and engage with the art – creating a more ‘Continuous-Relation’ with the art itself & its audience.
WHAT IS UNPLUGGED DANCE
A dance educational program in Lefkada Greece including original dance workshops with inspiring international educators and artists of contemporary dance and somatic practices. A living and practicing experience including dance workshops, accommodation and meals.
All Unplugged Dance workshops are open to everyone who wants to meet, share, dance and self-explore through movement and creative process. There is no need for previous experience in dance classes, although if there is one, it is welcome.
WHAT IS UNPLUGGED MAIN PROGRAM
In the Main Unplugged program we host every year new educators and artists from all over the world, through an open call process, in order to meet and highlight dance practices and methods that may exist around the world and approach dance as a practice of embodiment. We choose to emphasize on the importance of embodiment in dance education, research and choreography, in order to approach dance in a more open and inclusive way that can relate to self-determination, empowerment and expression. A dance -metaphorically and literally speaking- beyond the pursuit of a perfect form, that serves a liberating process of acceptance and joy.
ACCOMMODATION & MEALS
Find info and photos here https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops/?filter=services
HOW TO ARRIVE
https://unpluggeddance.com/about/?filter=lefkada
To register, visit https://unpluggeddance.com/event/main-program-_-week-1/
Costs for participants:
Early bird from 710 euros – accommodation and meals included.
Contact details: [email protected]