Where we are when we don’t know where we are – Defne Erdur
“Where we are when we don’t know where we are”, this is how Nancy Stark Smith described the space opened up by improvisation: a zone where provisions are temporarily suspended, where the ground is momentarily lacking and yet where we seek our way together. I come in silence, in curiosity, in trust and peace asking […]
Dance as a ground for the evolution of consciousness – Mathan Levkovich
When the invitation came to join the Contact Silence retreat, a sense of curiosity emerged in me.Dancing for me is a language. A language that exists in a realm that cannot be fully described by words.A language which is an experience, an experience that can alter my state of being. There are two conceptual frameworks that […]
E=mc2 – Anna Da Pozzo
E = mc 2Did Einstein dance contact? Today at school I explained this wonderful scientific revolution condensed into a formula.When the time comes for this topic my eyes shine and my enthusiasm infects the students… and then… I am tempted… and if I would put it in the suitcase for the Contact Silence Retreat? I […]
VICINO LONTANO – Roberto Bellatalla
CONTACT AND SILENCE – Lior Ophir
Towards the upcoming winter contact silence retreat I was asked to write a “brief text about dance and silence”. Sitting down to write my text, I realize that what I can and what I wish is to share some personal thoughts, feelings and curiosities towards the upcoming meeting. I hope this text can inspire also […]
CONSENT IMPROVISATION – Defne Erdur
silently and gently getting back to touch, reclaiming contact with careAfter a long, precarious period of witnessing our own inner movements and surviving small, confined spaces for moving, maybe witnessing others via online platforms we will now meet in opening bodies in open spaces!As always, we will all be coming from different places and shades […]
YES, WE ARE HAPPY – Alessandro Papalini
Since our project started, we have been able to welcome five wonderful groups of dancing meditators, coping in our own way with the pandemic and all that this entails. It was immediately clear to us, but also to the participants and to the people involved in the project that what we were doing was special, […]
NATURAL RYTHM – Nina Radovanovich
I used to think that I hate a routine and I was always running away from fixed schedules, fixed places and definite time, searching for freedom of making decisions in a moment, guided by my volatile desires. Few years ago, I found myself in an ashram in India, where I had no space for personal […]
IL SILENZIO DEL CORPO – Elisa Ghion
As I think about the next CSR, I wonder what relationship exists between the silence of the word and the silence of the body. It is not easy to speak and listen at the same time. Either you do one thing, or you do the other.The silence of the listener is an active silence, organized to […]
QUANDO IL SILENZIO SI FA DANZA – Michele Marchesani
“Tra un suono e l’altro cerco lo spazio di un gesto, sfiorando confini che da un lato sono musica dall’altro braccio, testa, gambe.” Come sarebbe bello rendere il suono “sospensione” e il silenzio “stabilità”. Invertire il ruolo di chi è “pausa.” Aprire un varco di ricchezza lì dove normalmente si pensa ci sia staticità, […]