- Expanding Projecting Unfolding // Tensegrity-Principles & Fascia-Anatomy in Dance

In this workshop we use these principles, based on experiential anatomy, Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Yoga, to access and deeply understand these capacities of the fascial connective tissue in our body. We use this stimulation of the elasticity and adaptability of the fascia / connective tissue in a variety of movement qualities and in dance training. Lightness, strength, permeability, stability, change of levels and dynamics as well as the ability to modulate and articulate are trained and thus eventually joy and expressiveness in dance.

What does this workshop focus on?

With active networking on micro- and macro-structural levels, the connective tissue allows our body to become a moving unity. All force-influences are projected through the skeleton by means of constant shifting in the elastic tissues which allows the forces to be distributed evenly over and over again. In this process, the fasciae have a significant tensioning- and distribution- function. This effect of the so-called tensegrity principle allows forces not only to be directed through the body, but also to align the whole body in space and to project it itself in the sense of locomotion through space.

Participants learn to apply anatomy and movement knowledge in improvisation and short choreographies. The focus is on strengthening the feeling for the individual interplay between skeleton and elastic tissue, so that the dance can unfold in its individual, unique form.

For whom is the workshop recommended?

The workshop is open to participants with somatics or movement experience and is intended for anyone who:

• want to get moving and combine strengthening training with deep relaxation,
• want to deepen the anatomy and physiology of fascia and integrate experiential knowledge into movement and dance,
• want to do an in-depth training in somatics in dance,
• want to incorporate body-awareness practice into dance and choreography,
• Researchers and people interested in all somatic methods who appreciate an interdisciplinary approach.
• Pedagogues, therapists, doctors, etc., who are looking for impulses of a well-founded body and movement perception.

Please don´t hesitate to contact Katja Münker directly if you have questions.

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