Workshop (retreat)
with Sabine Sonnenschein (AT) & Felix Ruckert (DE):
10 a.m. - 10 p.m. (10 a.m. - 1 p.m. / 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. / 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.)
Photo: (c) Robert John Peres, 2011
Contact Improvisation, Tantric meditation and massage are interwoven to a whole.
Contact Improvisation (CI) was developed in the US in the 1970s. As a dance practice and social event CI has a deeply sensual aspect where bodies find each other and come together. In classical CI classes, this aspect is basically ignored. The idea of setting aside sensuality and with it the erotic element, created a space for CI to develop, which is important, but nevertheless based on fiction.
In this retreat, through tantric approach und
techniques, CI becomes a tantric practice and sensual dance experience
in which space for love energy, full of presence and awareness is provided
within a defined form.
We will experience classical basics of CI techniques (dealing and playing
with gravity, effect and use of weight) in a new way because of tantric
approaches towards the world, such as sparsa (touching and getting touched),
spanda (vibration of the conciousness and the world) and surrender to
your lover.
In dance we touch the space - our lover. We make love with the space or
with a partner or several partners as well as the space. You allow the
awareness to experience you, the space, and us. CI, as a tantric practice,
means experiencing an "us," which arises from non-intentionality,
from improvisation, and from the very moment.
Dancing has neither future nor destination, but is always now, in this
moment.
A deep encounter becomes possible, if I am not wanting anything from you, nor you from me. A deep encounter becomes possible, when I don't just use you to feel myself and when my ego does not instrumentalise you, but instead, becomes silent and we experience each other and the space. We do not lose ourselves in one other when our awareness of the space brings us into harmony with the systole and diastole of the universe.
In the evening sessions basics of sensual full
body massage are taught and diverse qualities of touch get experienced.
We refine all of our senses in order to enter into play with one another.
There are impulses that lead us deeper into each other and open spaces
inwardly, and such that allow us to move outwardly, expanding into the
space.
This retreat provides a safe space for personal
as well as group experiences.
Personal boundaries and limits will
be respected.
For participation some experience
in a wholesome as well as physical training is needed, like Tantra, CI
or as well dance, dance improvisation, Yoga, Tai Chi, martial arts etc.
None of the heteronormativity of classical Tantra!
Photo: Regina Mierzwa, 2007Information and registration: info@felixruckert.de
http://www.schwelle7.de/SabineSonnenschein.html
Sleeping: We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.
More... http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 173 - 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
E-Mail: info@felixruckert.de
Traffic Link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
Photo: (c) Robert John Peres (1970, AT) studied theatre science, philosophy and history of art and has been a freelance choreographer and performer since 1992. Her work has been shown, among other places, in Vienna (Tanzquartier Wien, ImPuls Tanz, Tanzsprache, imagetanz,...), Munich, London, NYC, Stuttgart, Prague, Pula, Berlin, and St.Petersburg, http://sonnenschein.wuk.at .
She has been involved with sensitizing the body since 1990, and Contact Improvisation since 1991. She has training in tantric full body massage (AnandaWave/Cologne) and also lomi lomi nui.She was introduced to yin yang massage by Andro, has studied pelvic massage by K. Ruby; intensified her tantric experience at AnandaWave and SkyDancing (Munich), and has been introduced to Kashmir tantrism and Kashmir yoga of touch by Daniel Odier. In Vienna she has practiced tantric body work since 2006, primarily individual work.
She gives workshops focusing on the fusion of Tantra and Contact Improvisation. Teacher at ImpulsTanz in Vienna and several times at Schwelle 7 in Berlin.
is a dancer, choreographer, and conceptor. His experimental dance pieces and installations, his participatory work, but also his choreographies for ballet companies earned him an international reputation as an innovative contemporary choreographers. Since 30 years he is interested in all sort of body techniques. He studied ballet, modern and contemporary dance, Improvisation, Feldenkrais, Yoga, Chi Kung Tantra, Kyudo and much more. He worked as a dancer with several renowned european companies, before concentrating on choreography and conceptual work. Since ten years he is also involved in a practical and theoretical investigation of BDSM and explores connections between BDSM techniques and artistic practices, developing an art and philosophy of sensual communication. He directs the performance space schwelle7 in Berlin and curates and organizes - in collaboration with Caprice Dilba - the annual festival xplore. More at: www.felixruckert.de
Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany, February 2010
(c): Christian Lechner, Sabine Sonnenschein