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.
To feel how to be here and now in our own bodies, with your own body, breath, emotions, feelings and thoughts – amongst other people and with other people – and in nature.
“I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”
― Pina Bausch
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.
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.
Connection to subtle dreamlike states of presence to use them consciously as a factor which shapes our bodily and performative possibilities of (re)actions. Imagination has no limits. Are we limitless?
Building an elastic web of impulses leading to patterns. Discovering the most interesting patterns, seeds of a 'dragon tale' we discover, and extract from potential which exists in the quality and energy of our meeting.
Weaving choreography of dreams.
Growing these tales, speaking them out with our skills, allowing the organic (self)organisation to be the main 'director'.
The 7 animals dance workshops:
It is a meeting with our bodies and souls, and our nature. Exploring subtle and deep ability to change, to transform, to shine with our presence - in the space, in the air, in the group.
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.
The workshops are an intense and subtle process, through body, breath, voice, movement, sounds, rhythms. Finding them in our bodied. Finding them in the relation in a group.
To make movements from the body, not from our head.
To make sounds from the body, not from our throat.
To experience being a snake, a tiger, a crane, a panther, a dragon, a monkey, a cermilion bird, at the same time...
...being truly and deeply ourselves.
