Skin. Breath. Touch. Silence. Song.
Connective tissues of the body.
Connective tissues of the whole group.
I am. I feel. I sense. I breathe.
I listen. I speak. I share.
Working through images we make a yourney through our
senses, bodies, and voice -
- to reach relaxed
and spontaneous
state of movement
- happening in our bodies, and in a group
as one big organism.
7 animals dance (taniec 7 zwierzat) BY PAULINA 'PAULA' HOLSKA
Qigong. Dance. Theatre.
Breath. Movement. Meeting.
Grace. Vitality.
Naturalness. Spontaneity.
Expression. Calmness.
”7 animals dance”.
7 energies,
7 chinese “movements-emotions”
7 different constitutions
of me and my body, my tissues, organs,
sensations and feelings,
thoughts,
ways of being in space,
in contact,
in motion,
in silence and in a sound.
To find individual grace – in our movement, posture, body aligment, way of breathing or making pure natural sounds.
“7 animals dance” is a method based on physical theater and work with voice, dance and qigong. It is work with group and individual development of body awarness. Exploring the deeper connections between body, voice and movement depending on intention, internal and external stimulation, from energy of a group.
. . .The approach . .
"7 animals dance" is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge and exploration of this knowledge in work with intuitive body & voice work.
The aim is to maintain health and to heal through certain movements, actions, feelings, sensations, images. The motion which exists in our body can be various – and this variety enables us to “be different” every day, every minute, every wink, every breath.
So it is not only about the movement, about the dance, about the meeting – it is all about what those bring us – in means of health and vitality.
“I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”
― Pina Bausch
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. . . The workshops . .
Exploring how our p r e s e n c e is different, depending on the moment, on the stimulation, on the i n t e n s i o n . How we can change our presence, change our energy, so change qualities, which work on our tissues, organs, anatomy, emotions, thoughts, movements... relation with space and gravity.. and other 'presences' in the space.
* We work with imagination and visualisation, as a key to open doors of that permanent ability of transformation.
* We work with awarness and 'the moment' - how to find true, honest movent and presence in certain energy, how to be "fully ourselves, being fully in certain state..
* Basicly we work with 7 energies, of 7 animals: snake, tiger, crane, panther, dragon, monkey, vermillion bird. Each of them taking into deep embodiement process.
These 'animals' are resembling different states of being present with our body, emotions and soul. The work with images of these animals is rooted in chinese qigong and martial arts, physical theatre, contemporary work with dance and movement, contact improvisation, BMC, and work with voice and ritual actions.
. . . What we do with "movements-emotions". . . ?
In Traditional Chinese Medicne there are 7 basic „movements-emotions”. In those lie every human psychophysical states.
We work with relation: body-image-movement-emotion. Movement-sound-movement. Language – imagination – search for a motion. Search for the quality of movement. Discovering the body memory. Memory of emotions in the body and „through the body”.
We explore those topics, consciously and playfully, and will smooth and "changefull" flow. The whole process is like a journey, with a guide, who speaks a fairy tale, which becomes real.. when embodied.
We go through a subtle process of being with our presence, observing the body 'here and now', and allowing the presence to become vibrant and honest. To reach state in which we can truly share our presence.
Work through imagination and visualisation is a key to permanent ability of transformation.
A search for organic resemblance of 'imaginery inner tissues'. Search for honest movements, mirroring our soul.
To build genuine connectiveness with oneself, the group, space and our individual and collective imagination.
The core of work is how to establish deep connetions with ourselves. TO BE TRUE. TO BE HONEST.
To start from a relaxation state, from "zero", from "I do not know"... to a state of knowing, feeling, tasting (new) qualities in movement, and voice.
To taste, to feel and to investigate those sensations... In our body, thoughts and feelings.
To create performability of the body, which is based on intuition and though opens us for deeper perception.
It is all about extremely subtle work with qualities. Butterfly strokes gently its wing, and it causes a tornado. And tornado gently strokes silky skin of a baby.
> READ EVEN MORE ABOUT THE 7 ANIMALS & THE METHOD. (aspects, theory....):
visiting my '7 animals dance' webpage www.through7animalsdance.wordpress.com