Welcome to a workshop retreat set in the beautiful and quiet countryside, where you will work with somatic practices and improvisation both inside and outside in nature.
This initiative is an in-depth workshop retreat in Tuva Hildebrand's work, which has its base in touch and hands-on (body) work in pairs, experiential anatomy, imagery and poetic guidance that leads into dance and movement explorations. It is inspired by the work of Eva Karczag, Alexander Technique, Skinner Releasing Technique, BodyMind Centering and Contact Improvisation, among other improvisational and somatic methods.
What is knowledge? And how do we learn about ourselves, each other and the world through our sensing body? The practices offered in this retreat brings you into a meditative state of deep presence practiced through movement and dance, relating to other humans and the more than human through all of your senses.
Through movement, we practice shifting our experience of ourselves and the world from analytical and word-based thought into an embodied perception of the materiality of yourself and your surrounding. The exercises will give you tools to move effortlessly in a physically and psychologically sustainable way. You will become aware of how you use your attention and how it affects all of your cells in all of your body.
We practice listening to what is there and daring to be in a place of unknowing and unpredictability; of allowing more possibilities for learning, moving and choice-making - for dancing - to be available. We listen and trust the body’s intelligence, archive and process in intimate meeting with the world it is being formed by and forming all the time. Releasing tension and listening deeply to what is there can open up an unrestricted creativity and open up a playfulness, a language, ideas and images that are sitting deeply in your subconscious.
Depending on your interests you will alongside working with the above also go deeper into directions such as…
- solo moving within a group
- moving into Contact Improvisation from a state of deep listening
- moving in relation to others but without contact
- relating through touching but not specific “Contact Improvisation technique”
- exploring Ecosomatics and the body’s relation to the more-than-human
- working with the playful landscape of sound, voice, language and text.
We will also be processing through conversations, drawing and writing.
When you register for the retreat you will be able to select certain interests you have and Tuva will plan the workshop according to those. However half of the workshop will always be grounded in her work with hands-on, anatomical imagery and poetic guidance into movement.
Tuva Hildebrand: "The practice I will offer is an integration of techniques, methods and ideas that I have learnt the last 16 years of my dancing life; from my mentor Eva Karczag, Skinner Releasing Technique, Alexander Technique, BodyMind Centering, teachers of contact improvisation such as K.J. Holmes, Nina Martin, Bradley Teal Ellis, Margaret Paek and methods from many different improvisation, somatic and dance artists in the post-Judson scene during my time studying regularly at Movement Research in New York from 2013-2018. The last 12 years I have also been developing my own artistic work and practice through making performances for theaters and alternative spaces.
I am not a therapist, I am an artist and pedagogue. The work can have, as any art, therapeutic consequences but it is important to enter the workshop with the intention of exploring a dance practice; a creative, embodied, physical, philosophical and artistic practice."
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE RETREAT YOU FIND IN THIS LINK:
https://mailchi.mp/87ea5affe51e/ik2hobuv9o
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FOOD
All meals will be cooked by Wilma Lagerman: an agro-ecologist, yogi and retreat chef interested in guthealth and the intimate connection between our body, the plants we eat and the agro-cultural industry.
The food is vegetarian, locally sourced and organic.
FULL COST
Sliding scale: 2600-4000 SEK
PLACE
We will dance and live on a rustic and simple farm in the Swedish country side. Surrounded by beautiful horse fields, forests and a lake 45 mins walk through the forest.
The dance studio is in a rustic and very simple rebuilt barn.
You will sleep in a tent or in the dorm. The dorm is on the top floor in the main house and the camping ground is on the field just by the studio.
PARTICIPANTS
This retreat is for anyone independent of background or experience, interested in dance, movement, meditative practices, martial arts, improvisation, body work, embodied ecology and philosophy, and a creative expression of the body growing easefully out of a deep inner connection and awareness.
Tuva welcomes students that has worked with her before to allow for a deep dive into the work, but she am also happy to receive new students with an open and curious mind to this retreat.
We will only be 10 participants in the group which will allow for an in-depth, focused and intimate atmosphere.
VOLUNTEERS
We will need three volunteers for this workshop retreat. You will participate with a subsidized workshop fee in exchange for helping out with cleaning, food preparation and dishes.
If you want to volunteer or if you have any questions email
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MORE INFORMATION AND LINK TO REGISTER HERE:
https://mailchi.mp/87ea5affe51e/ik2hobuv9o
Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis and deadline for signing up and paying is July 27th!
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