Workshop (retreat)
with Sabine Sonnenschein (AT) & Felix Ruckert (DE):
Retreat / Monday to Friday, October 8 to 12, 2012 / all day,
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
Sabine and Felix direct this retreat together.
Sabine provides the Tantric and Felix focuses on the tools for Contact
Improvisation. Their common base is Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation.
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 we focus on healing awareness and massage/touch:
In the first session we get aware of the space of the heart, the breast
and the breasts. In the second and third session we feel and sensitise
the female and male womb and genitals. Healing awareness in these energetic
centres and body parts enriches us, our dances and our encounters. For
these massages nakedness is not required.
This retreat provides a safe space for personal as well as group experiences.
Be clear with your YES or NO to a dance or to a quality of touch! You
practise to be aware of yourself, to be responsible of yourself and empathic
towards others. You are invited to get aware of your personal boundaries,
limits and taboos. You might respect them, experiment with them or transcend
them. A specific playground for this is for example choosing a partner
for the massage.
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) has been a choreographer and performer since 1992 and has had a tantric approach to life since 2004.
She lives and teaches a fusion of a tantric perspective on the world and dance as a practice of life. She studied contemporary dance, theatre science, philosophy and history of art. Her work has been shown, among other places, in Europe and NYC, 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; she 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 Vienna and at Schwelle 7 in Berlin. She organizes Night of Dance & Tantra in Vienna.
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