UNPLUGGED REVISITED WORKSHOP | MARINA TSARTSARA & DEFNE ERDUR – 8 DAY WORKSHOP IN GREECE
Marina & Defne are inviting you to delve into a week of creativity on the transitive line between life and art.
Where: Neochori, Lefkada, Greece
When: 9 – 16 July, 2023
DAILY SCHEDULE
08.00 – 09.00 Breakfast
09.30-12.30 Practice
13.00 – 16.30 Resting & snack
16.30-19.30 Practice
20.00 -21.00 Dinner
Sunday 9th is the arrival day and only welcome dinner is included.
Sunday 16th is the departure day and only breakfast is included.
Deadline for applications: July 2, 2023 / Early Bird until 25th of May, 23!
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Seeds – inquiring creativity on the transitive line between life and art
We will be planting many seeds together this week. With the support of images, materials i.e resources from our inner worlds and the out world surrounding us; trusting the creative potential of each seed that we all bring we wish to host this week in a seriously joyful and joyfully serious way.
We wish for the “essence”, the “home”, the “authentic life force” to find its effortless unfolding.
We will support each other to give and take time, space and nourishment to realize where we are on the cycle of our own creativity : seed in a palm, seed under soil, cracking seed, sprouting, growing, fruiting, decaying… fertile and potent no matter at which state… you are welcome!
Deepening into Somatic Art® with Marina Tsartsara
During this week we will delve into an in depth research of the Somatic Art® Practice methodology on the subject of the ‘seed’.
The methodology interlaces Somatic, Performance and Visual Art methods deepening into the contents of each workshop through weaving and layering.
Our daily explorations will include Experiential Anatomy (Body-Mind Centering®), Experiential Embryology, Somatic Movement, Relational Mindfulness, Performance methods, Fine & Visual Arts (drawing, photography & video) as well as creative writing.
Part of our explorations will be spending time in nature to ‘borrow’ qualities, materials and inspiration.
We will work on individual, couple and group dynamics/relationships.
Personal reflections and group sharings are important and will be given space as part of the integration of the work.
MA – Pregnant Nothingness with Defne Erdur
This week – as we will be working deeply with our own bodies and images, revisiting information that actually “every body knows”, and as we will be immersed in abundant nature – it feels important and necessary to co-create “empthy space” as an interval, a treshold, laying fallow… To experience timelessness, spacelessness, pregnant nothingness may allow us to transform, discover/recover, reconnect to our creative potential as artists, researchers, teachers, facilitators, students, i.e. curious beings on this planet.
Within a clear and simple time-space frame to contain what is being born in our togetherness I will invite each of us to focus on our individual states, needs and desires, our own inquiries. Many modalities ranging from Wheel of Consent, Somatic Experiencing to Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement to Instant Composition will be at our service if and when the collective empty space we hold calls for them. Antonija Livingston’s invitation will be one of our principle mantra “Do. Don’t Do. Modify. Witness. Report. Reset. Recover.”
More info here https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops-posts/somatic-art/
BIOS
Defne Erdur (TR) is trained in Contemporary Dance (PhD), Sociology (MA), Intermodel Expressive Art Therapy, Body Therapies (Deep Tissue Release, Trigger Point & Movement, Integrative Craniosacral Therapy), Meditation (World Peace Initiative), and Trauma Healing (Somatic Experiencing, Integral Somatic Psychology, Full Embodiment). In 2016 she completed her PhD thesis on Contact Improvisation in Turkey (DANCE EDUCATION ON THE TRANSITIVE LINE BETWEEN LIFE AND ART: Contributions of the Technique, Methodology and Pedagogy of Contact Improvisation to the Physical, Artistic and Psycho-social Development of Amateur Dancers). For the past two decades she has been regularly teaching and sharing her research around the world. Besides giving her workshops (Hunting Gathering Cultivating, Every Body Knows, Consent Improvisation) and holding residencies (MA- Pregnant Nothingness, Moving Library) she prefers co-teaching, co-creating with other facilitatiors and researchers. In years she has worked with different populations (professional and amateur movers, therapists, women, LGBTQ+ people and migrant children and youth). Her movement teaching practice is mostly informed by her intensive trainings with Simone Forti, Julyen Hamilton, John Britton, Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simson, Nita Little, Frey Faust, Keith Hennessy, Martin Keogh, Aydın Teker, Marcia Plevin and Julia Buckroyd. Currently, in response to many worldwide crisis, she is mainly interested in sharing trauma informed movement practices and resting practices. www.defneerdur.com
Marina Tsartsara is a Dance and Visual Artist & educator (MSc), a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher in the oficial Body-Mind Centering® trainings in the UK, Spain Greece, and a Mindfulness teacher. Since 2014 she have been researching and developing the Somatic Art Practice, an interdisciplinary practice that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the two branches of Mindfulness & Drawing and BMC® & Visual Art. Her BA (Hons) and MSc studies are on Dance & Visual Art and Screendance (Videodance). Her MPhil is on Performance Autoethnography researching on the subject of the personal experience of genetic/chronic physical illness via dance and visual arts (Medical Humanities). She is a Holistic Life Coach, Yoga Vinyasa teacher and a Hakomi student. Main influences in her teaching come from dear teachers like: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Curious, Charlie Morrissey, Julyen Hamilton, Deborah Hay, Miranda Tufnell, Rosemary Butcher, Kirstie Simson, Liz Aggiss among others. https://www.somaticwellbeing.info/
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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
Seeds 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.
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ACCOMMODATION & MEALS
Find info and photos here https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops/?filter=services
HOW TO ARRIVE
https://unpluggeddance.com/about/?filter=lefkada
HOW TO REGISTER
https://unpluggeddance.com/event/1953/
Cost for participants: Early bird from 665 euros – accommodation and meals included
Contact details: [email protected]