At Piotrowice Nyskie Baroque Palace in Poland
Contact Improvisation, Tango, Tai-Chi, Play Fight, Physical creativity, Evolutionary Movement, Open Voice & Singing circles.
With Javier Cura & Komala Amorin
Evolution has designed us through movement, touch and socialisation. We are born to run, jump, walk, climb, fight, cooperate, tell stories, sing and dance. Our brains are a consequence of our wide range of movement, food and social interactions.
The way we move affects our physical, emotional and mental health. Acknowledging our evolution’s design can have a positive impact on ourselves, on our society and on the Earth. We would like to embody the change we wish for us and for those who will follow us.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Surrounded by green farmlands, against the backdrop of blue hills, lush green forests, a meandering river, nearby lakes and the gardens that surround the renovated baroque Palace of Piotrowice Nyskie, www.piotrowicenyskie.pl we will empower ourselves through the joy of “gathering” a diversity of movements together.
We will apply all of these to and through Contact Improvisation, Tango, Tai-Chi, Fusion, Play Fight, Physical creativity, Body Percussion, Voice exploration and Singing circles. We will also share stories, gather plants, cook together, swim, meditate and create different forms to cooperate and to share knowledge.
We will experience how this embodied experience can affect our way of being in the present, our creativity and life joyfulness, and envision ways to bring it over to our everyday life.
WORKSHOP COST
EARLY BIRD before the 14th June:
Sliding scale 410€ to 460€ (discount for students & unemployed)
AFTER 14th June:
Sliding scale 460€ to 500€ (discount for students & unemployed)
NOTE: it is possible to come for a shorter stay of a minimum of 3 complete days.
COST INCLUDES:
Around 6-7 hours daily of movement outdoors and indoors plus music, dance & contact tango jams.
OPEN VOICE lead by Komala Amorin, is a method for rescuing our natural ability to sing spontaneously by opening and expressing the wide range of sounds within. This is a therapeutic process, a powerful opening for self-expression and a spiritual experience. It is a call to be in the present moment and express our inner experiences and emotions, through the singing voice. We will have 3 or 4 sessions plus music voice improvisations.
OPEN SPACE for participant to contribute at its own will with their own experience and or questions. Past years offers ranged from yoga, massage, meditation, to name just some.
ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS & COSTS:
Includes the use of:
- a big common kitchen to cook together + Studio + common bathrooms + an improvised pool + common bikes + when possible being picked up at the nearby village
Tents: 20€/p.night/person & camper: 22-25€/p.night/person
Mattress on floor in shared hall: 20€/p. night,
Shared rooms for 3 or 4 persons: 27-30€/p. night, w/private bathroom & sometimes kitchen
Shared room for 2 persons: 32-35€/p. night, w/ private bathroom & sometimes kitchen
Single room: 37-40€/p. night
FOOD is our community building practical tool.
Taking care of our food (shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc) is a practical way to bring down to earth our community and to open up awareness for the group wellbeing. We will share the costs (which are very cheap in Poland)
DANCE & MUSIC JAMS and CONCERTS
KOMALA AMORIN: we will play with our unique voices and improvise in singing circles.
NICOLA GRUENING & and other accomplished musicians, creators and teachers will be playing some nights.
AND, you can bring also your music instrument and join us for the multiple JAMs.
HOW TO ARRIVE:
we will put in contact participants to share trips together by car, camper or train. http://www.piotrowicenyskie.pl/ . Google Maps:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/v83TLAqji2esMQYL6
From Berlin: 5-6 hours by car – 7.30 to 8.30hours by train or Bus search connections for Nysa or Otmuchów. We will pick you up from either.
From Prague: 3.30 hours by car – 4.30 hours by train or Bus to Horní Heřmanice via Zábřeh na Moravě & Lipová Lázně. We will pick you up from Horní Heřmanice.
Please double check with us the precise info on how to get there.
INFO: javier@theecologicalbody.de , javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com
Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal +49 176 21452059
Facebook: This Event please share!
“The Meaning of Movement”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PNRKQKT5c&ab_channel=acTVismMunich
ANOTHER WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
https://youtu.be/IuDeR5bsDfY
The Ecological Body short video in Bechyne Monastery
https://youtu.be/O2xkeg_7SXo
OTHER VIDEOS:
Underwater contact tango dance: https://vimeo.com/246302562
Contact tango: https://vimeo.com/110580854
Other videos:
With Leilani Weiss www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFejqW6DlVo&t=3s,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U
With Linda Bufali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zqASLdktg
With Brigitta Winkler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc
With Clelia Fumanelli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-NHJgDp5w
With Kami Kvetinova https://www.facebook.com/100084442020246/videos/1133605731340205/
With Sabine Parzer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckX859CTRLo
Javier Cura is a teacher, visual artist, theatre director and movement activist and coach who has worked extensively in the realms of movement, dance and theatre. He has been invited to teach and perform at Fabrik Potsdam Tanztage, Goettingen Contact Impro Festival and Phantastango, Farma Dance Theatre Festival and Alchemie Tango in Prague, C.I.R.A in Strasbourg, as well as to CI Festival San Francisco (USA). He has dedicated himself to researches in anthropological and sociological themes to develop projects in social theatre in Italy, Morocco and Germany. He has collaborated on a research on expression in Contact Improvisation at the Berlin Free University. He has worked as movement advisor for Sickle Cell patients in London Royal Hospital. Through a mix of disciplines that nourish movement diversity, body awareness, consensual touch and creativity, he has created The Ecological Body, with the intention to reconnect with oneself, other beings and the Earth, in an emotional, physical and spiritual way. He defines himself as a movement activist. He encourages people to take care of their own vital movement needs, as these have a massive impact on our physical, emotional and spiritual health, as well as on our Planet’s health.
www.javiercura.net
Komala Amorim is a group leader and trainer. She brings a unique blend of body awareness, meditation, transpersonal psychology and voice exploration, in combination with Taoist, Sufi, Tantric and Shamanic practices.
She is a certified Somatic Experiencing®️ and Craniosacral Biodynamic therapist, a Systemic Ritual practitioner, and a devoted explorer of the healing and transformative power of the singing voice and sound.
Led by her, we will play with our unique voices and improvise in singing circles.
OPEN VOICE, led by Komala Amorim, is a method for rediscovering our natural ability to sing spontaneously by opening and expressing the full spectrum of sounds within us. It is a therapeutic journey, a powerful gateway to authentic self-expression and deep spiritual experiences. This practice invites us to stay in the present moment and to express our inner experiences and emotions through the singing voice. We will have Open Voice sessions plus group improvisations.
https://www.komalaamorim.com/
https://www.facebook.com/komala.sunder
https://youtu.be/iX8d4D0JYJA
https://youtube.com/shorts/2HHo0-ftK8w?feature=share