28 October – 1 November 2024
Partecipants: Max 35
Gaia Terra, Udine, Italy
This retreat is designed for people with experience in contact improvisation who are familiar with the dynamics of the jam, and for those who wish to discover how silence and meditation can enrich and deepen their experience of dance.
Silence, The Contact Improvisation Jam, Meditation, the Talking Circle
Workshop
Schedule
Platform
08.15 / 09.00 Meditation
10.00 / 10.30 Silent Circle
10.30 Silent Jam
15.00 / 16.00 Talking Circle
16.00 / 19.00 Intensive
21.00 Silent Circle
21.30 Jam
Silence
1st. 2nd. 3rd day 21.00 – 13.00 Silence in all areas of the retreat
4th day 00.00 – 24.00 Silence in all areas of the retreat
Meals
09.00 / 10.00 Breakfast
13.00 / 14.30 Lunch
19.30 / 21.00 Dinner
Retreat Focalizers
Virginia Negru
I am a dancer, performer and Contact Improvisation teacher. My passion and journey in dance led me to discover CI in 2006 and since then I am a dedicated researcher and practitioner of this art form. This experience awoke in me also the interest for real time composition which became an important part of my teaching and performance practice. I started teaching and organizing CI events in Romania after an intense period of traveling and dancing around Europe and USA between the years 2011-2015 - learning and participating in CI workshops, festivals and jams. This experience and also other significant personal changes gave me clarity and courage to start teaching and share my life perspective through dance. Along my practice and experience I learned and took inspiration from: Stephen Batts and Ursula Laeubli, Benno Voorhan and Sybrig Dokter, Catrina Choate, Scott Wells, Ekaterina Ericson, Alexandra Soshnicova and Serghei Golovnya, Cyrus Khambatta, Nora Hajos, Nancy Stark Smith, Ralf Jaroschinski, Sasha Dodo, Adrian Russi, Susanne Martin, Anjelika Doniy and many more. At the present moment i am looking for ways of readjusting my interests and dance practice to the fast changing realities, and understand how my experience can be of value to others. I am studying of philosophy, teaching weekly CI classes in Bucharest, performing and sometimes travelling to teach and also learn.
Michele Marchesani
MICHELE MARCHESANI In 1996 he started his work on the human body through Shiatsu, becoming a practitioner and teacher. In 2003 his experience allowed him to develop Tatto Interno – Deep Touch a body based method that merges movement and perception. He taught in Bologna, to continue in Orvieto (VT), Vasto (CH), Padua and Merano. He further developed his technique studying ShinTai, chakras, fascial work and Light Body Activation (Light Body Yoga). Following his interest and curiosity for the holistic approach to well being, he kept feeding his practice investigating disciplines like: Holistic Nutrition, Macrobiotic Cuisine, Oriental Diagnosis, Bach flowers, Chi Gong, Meditation, Breathing Techniques, Reiki, Five Tibetan Rites, and every other discipline that could support his understanding of human beings. In 2004 he discovered and started studying Contact Improvisation (CI). Over the years he has been organizing CI related events and, more recently, he sporadically teaches classes. For the past three years he has been leading the CI group in Orvieto.
Musician and focalizer
Luigi Mattiello
I am a Gestalt counselor trained at the Miriam Polster Institute in Florence and an integrated approach music therapist graduated from the Tuscan Center of Music Therapy. In the social and educational sphere I collaborate with school institutions and mental health centers in prevention and rehabilitation projects with specific Music Therapy resources. As part of the relationship of help, I work with groups of adults through the tools of Counseling, using a Gestalt approach and artistic mediation. I lead groups on the use of voice and song as a vehicle for transforming human potential, an integration path between Gestalt techniques, artistic mediation counseling, vocal music therapy and free singing. In the artistic and personal well-being field I work as a multi-instrumentalist in concert activities called sound rituals / world-music, a path that sees the realization of meditative concerts through evocative sounds from different countries of the world, combined with the ritualistic dimension of the human being that offers the listener the opportunity to create internal landscapes useful for inner growth and the development of his potential. I am an educational teacher at the biennial music therapy course in Florence. Trainer and populariser in the pedagogical and social field with teachers, helpers and parents.
Prices and registration procedures
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How to get there
By train
Nearest airports: Trieste, Venezia
By Car
VIA PETRARCA 45, FLAMBRUZZO (UDINE)
By train
Nearest Train station: LATISANA
then you’ll get a bus to FLAMBRUZZO
By bus
Linea 515 – LATISANA – FLAMBRUZZO ore 13:40 – 14.10
CSR Team
Anna Bertolotti
Born in Tuscany and based in Liguria, Anna studied set and costume design in Milan and practiced it for 15 years, cultivating many different artistic interests, mainly theater acting. She landed on Contact Improvisation six years ago and it was love at first sight. She then became a managing member of Corpoetica and CSR, organizing CI and dance related events in Italy.
Alessandro Papalini
His journey through travel, contact improvisation, meditation, and social work began twenty-five years ago, bringing deep meaning to his life. A professional educator and pedagogist, he holds degrees in social psychology from the University of Siena, where his theses explored and examined human connections through touch and symbol. As a yoga and meditation teacher trained at FIY, he evolved from a fascination with Kashmir Shaivism and its contemporary interpreters to an appreciation for secular Ancient Buddhism via the practice of Vipassana meditation (AMECO). Founder of the Libera Mente APS association, he coordinates projects for refugees and convicted minors and leads Contact Silence Retreats. He is the father of Litò, a wonderful 9-year-old child, and he promised her he will never stop dancing.
