Body-voice practice and movement research

This training is based on improvisation, instant composition, physical theater, Butoh dance practices and somatic body work.
The class begins with a guided group warm up, the Djalma Warm Up, focusing on the relationship between breath and movement and energy work, both individual and group. The idea is to free the body-mind of tensions, habits and common places, to access our creativity from a more genuine and sensitive place. It is a kind of cleansing ritual, between trance and meditation.
Then we continue with the more experimental and compositional part. Through improvisation exercises both individually and in pairs, we will further explore the connection between movement, breath, voice and eventually the word. Breathing will become a tool for creative choreographic work. We will also use the concept of automatic writing or fluid awareness to explore how our voice(s) - expressed as sound or language - and our movements can articulate, inhabit and animate each other, creating unexpected qualities, images and emotional landscapes. The different aspects of our voice will be explored physically: its sonority, materiality, resonance. Inspired by the absurdity and poetry that arise from this playful dialogue, we will develop our own dramaturgy of body-language.
In addition, we will explore the relationship between movement and imagination. Imagination understood as an inner space that can emerge on the surface as a physical event that transforms us today and now.

Open to performers, dancers, actors and anyone interested in creative body research.

Class language: German (optional: English and Spanish)
Duration: 1h30 min
Fee: 10 reduced/ 12 Euro normal
Urban Sports members are welcome.
Due to Corona Measures only with pre-registration and full contact.
Registration: akasugu@gmail.com
www.anakavalis.com
https://zbk.berlin/services/the-resonant-body