Unplugged Revisited workshop | Androniki Marathaki – 8day workshop in Greece
How does it feel to be comfortable in our own skin? Androniki Marathaki will give us the opportunity to revisit this question this summer, by sharing her unique dance improvisation practice in an 8 day workshop in Lefkada!
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“Let’s be comfortable in our own skin” is a dance improvisation practice that invests in discovering ways to coordinate our movement with the sensing of our Bodily Stimulus. It is a direction of managing our movement in the world through processes that concern not how it can be observed from an external point of view, but how the movement itself informs, sensitizes and activates the various organizations and arrangements of the living and whole Body.
This practice is characterized by a study, contemplation and experience of the dance with “bare attention” of what we call “bodily sensations” and a way of practicing that is focused around a precise quality of attention.
A quality of attention that embraces subjectivity, invests in its importance in the art of dance, and at the same time seeks what may be common as a process to arrive at it.
So perhaps what we define as Body and as Dance can organize its meaning differently, supported by what is coordinated, comforting, healthy, delightfully related and above all defined by the fact that it continues to move.
Starting from this practice, in this revisiting, our main focus is on what unravels in the relationship of human movement and movement as an eternal and infinite possibility.
Based on this provocation of differentiating between sensory-revealed movement and that which exists around us in the universe, this workshop wishes to develop the sensoriality of relationships.
Mainly it sensitizes our awareness to embodied landscapes of relationships, to a sensorial exploration of relationships from the densest structures of the human body, to its softest networks and finally to the dialogue that the moving human body can develop with the movement of the world around it .
#The workshop is addressed to those that wish to develop a healthy relation in how they move to/in/with the world and experience movement. It is inspired by dance, somatic practices, neuroscience, Qiqong and infinite moments of practicing alone and with others.
More info about the workshop here https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops-posts/workshop-2/
BIO
Androniki Marathaki is a choreographer, performer and educator in dance. With the support of the Greek Scholarship Foundation she started her artistic research in choreography and improvisation in dance in C.S.S.D. under the name “modulated choreographies”. Since then, by maintaining elasticity to what dance might be and by expanding the boundaries of dance education and choreographing, she is interested in the various ways humans perceive movement and in that way constructing cultural forms and social relations in different environments.
By adopting “practice” as her main choreographing method, she facilitates conditions from which ‘awareness’ can be cultivated for anyone that participates in a dance event. In her work, from a dance performance to a workshop, the different processes of experiencing (choreographing, performing, observing) are interwoven in order to release compositional as well as defamiliarization processes of movement that are also related in everyday life and are able to develop capacities in the world-making and self-creation.
Engaged on a regular basis in somatic practices and as well as eastern practises and philosophies all these years she elaborates her dance practice and shares it in workshops and improvisation dance classes for multicellular groups of people as well as for people with a lot of experience in improvising and somatic practices.
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 REVISITED
“Revisiting Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: sensorial relations” is part of Unplugged Revisited 2023, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program. With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.
ACCOMMODATION & MEALS
Find info and photos here https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops/?filter=services
HOW TO ARRIVE
https://unpluggeddance.com/about/?filter=lefkada
WHEN:
23 – 30 July, 2023
WHERE:
Neochori, Lefkada, Greece
Deadline for applications: 16 July, 2023 / Early bird until 25th of May, 2023 !
Our daily programme
8.00-9.00 breathing & micromoving
9.00-10.00 Breakfast
10.00-12.00 Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: Round A
12.00-14.00 Revisiting Let’s be comfortable in our own skin: sensorial relations
14.00-17.30 Snack & Resting
17.30-19.30 Personal journeys (optional)
20.00-21.00 Dinner
Sunday 23rd is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included.
Sunday 30th is the departure day and only breakfast is included.
Costs for participants: Early bird from 665 euros – accommodation and meals included.
Contact details: [email protected]
For further information, please visit https://unpluggeddance.com/