CORPO ÁGUA
(WATER BODY)
w/ Catarina Ascensão & Constança Morais
15 March, Centro Upaya (Lisbon)
To Listen
To Observe
To Open our Senses
Slowness
Dance
Inner Sound
To Connect
- Catarina
We start with our own dance. The encounter with ourselves, with the music, with the floor, with the space. Then, we find the dance with the other. We will observe how the fluids of our body circulate, how they inspire our movement, embracing the waves and ripples. We evoke the fluidity of the water that allows us to travel in the Dance, like the current of a river that never stops. Sound and Silence. We observe the slowness and the details. Allow the body to do it on its own. Seek the paths without effort.
I would like to be a waterfall for a day
and cry all that holds my heart
- Constança
We will then let our waters dance us in a movement-cry-laugh that cleanses our physical, emotional, and mental body, connecting us to everything.
This workshop will bring together the work of two lovers of somatic movement, contact improvisation, and process work. Catarina's movement and touch work meets Constança's life-dance approach. All of this meets you and the group, always following the wisdom of the bodies.
Venue
This workshop will happen at Centro Upaya, an oasis in Lisbon (Campolide) where you immediately feel safe and at home. The dance floor is delicious and everything about the space is softly inviting us to relax and open.
(photos by Luna Buerguer - https://lunabuerger.com)
About the facilitators
Today, Catarina lives her life as a mother, a dancer, a teacher, an event organiser, a doula and a space holder in La Drome - France. Graduated in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. Master's degree attendance in Education through Art - Theatre. Along with this artistic path, she develops a parallel path through holistic healing, focused on the merging of the movement with subtle touch. The body, its expression and the relationship between beings, are her main focus of research. She deeply believes in a natural balance of things. She loves to laugh while dancing and to observe the music of people moving together. Know more about her story and work here.
As a Somatic Experiencing therapist and Life-Dance teacther, Constança is moved by a deep faith in life’s intelligence and awe for how it operates through our individual and collective body-minds. She explored several movement meditation practices with teachers all over Europe, studied Movement-based Expressive Arts Therapy at Tamalpa Institute and Somatic Experiencing with Liana Netto at Associação Brasileira do Trauma. Her home is in Sintra. This land and the immense ocean nearby are an endless source of insight, poetry and remembrance that all we’re here to do is to allow and serve the universal dance as it unfolds. Know more about her story and work here.
Practicalities
Schedule
This workshop takes place from 10h to 19h at Centro Upaya with a 1h30 break for a shared lunch.
Price
First Slot (10 places): 55€ - ongoing
Second Slot (10 places): 65€
Third Slot (10 places): 75€
Discounts
- 10 % for Release Members (you can become one by quickly filling up this form)
- 30% for students or people in situation of unemployment (send us an email with proof of your status to request this discount)
*the discounts are not cumulative
Join us!
To join please fill up the registration form here.
For inquiries, write to releaseembodiedarts@gmail.com.