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ANOTHER WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: Summer Residency in Poland July 25-August 3 2025

Posted on 7th May 20257th May 2025 by javier in Uncategorised

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:

“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

5 DAYS RESIDENCY in Le Marche, Italy AUGUST 21-26th

Posted on 4th August 2018 by javier in Uncategorised

NATURAL PRIMAL MOVEMENT, WATER, TOUCH and VOICE MEDITATION….

5 DAYS RESIDENCY in Le Marche, Italy
AUGUST 21-26th

(Italian version below)

Surrounded by Le Marche rounded hills, fruit trees, wild plants, the nearby Adriatic sea, streams and a pool for ourselves, we will explore:

1. PRIMORDIAL MOVEMENT: we will dive into movements that through millions of years of Evolution have designed our bodies: walking, running, climbing trees, gathering fruits, carrying weight, squatting, pounding, hanging, pulling, pushing, throwing, etc. We will relate how these primordial movements are the ground base of many movement disciplines be it Contact Improvisation, Tai Chi, Tango, Parkour, and many expressive dances.

2. MOVING & DANCING IN WATER: Diminishing the stress of gravity on our bodies by moving in the the sea and pool, will provide us a safe environment to expand our movement vocabulary. We will then ground this experience on earth.

3.TOUCH is not optional for human development and existence. There is no movement without a sense of touch. In contact with nature, animals and human beings, we will re expand physically and socially, our sense of touch.

4. VOICE movement developed together with Kundalini and Haitian spine movements and breath will become a daily awakening or closing meditation.

For 5 DAYS, (21-26th August), we will create an ephemeral community, gathering fruits, moving, dancing, singing, cooking, swimming, sharing stories by the fire and through movement.

The farm house Il Canto del Bosco will provide the perfect setting to immerse ourselves in Nature.

This residency is open to people of all experiences interested in movement creation as a path of knowledge, healing, communication and personal enrichment. It is supported by the Notte Nera Festival, happening during the whole week at the medieval village of Serra dei Conti, and culminating in a whole night of performances, concerts and exhibitions on the 25th of August ( http://www.nottenera.it/2018/ )

PROGRAM includes around 6-7 hours of movement work, focusing on micro and macro movements, trekking, fruit gathering and occasional jams.

ACCOMODATION: The Agriturismo (Farmhouse) Il Canto del Bosco (www.cantodelbosco.it ), located near Poggio San Marcello (AN), Italy, offers: rooms for 2 to 5 people + pool + 3 kitchenS + Grill + beautiful surrounding gardens, forest, hills and a donkey. It is about a 15-minute drive from Serra de ‘Conti.
COOKING: There are in total 3 kitchens in the 3 guest houses. Every house will take care of its own suppers. In case we are a very big group we can agree dinners with a nearby restaurant for 10/8€ for vegetarians and 8/6€ for not vegetarians.

DATES: from Tuesday 21st at 16hrs till Sunday 26th at 13hrs. It is possible to come for a reduced stay of minimum 3 days.

COST WORKSHOP: until July 22nd: 170€. After July 22nd : 190€
Discount for students, unemployed and for former participants in previous workshops at Serra de ‘Conti

COST OF ACCOMMODATION: ranges from 15€ to 30€ per night / person according to the type of accommodation. There are also some limited tent places at a cost of 8 € per night/person in case we exceed 15 participants.

INFO: Javier Cura javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com +49 176 2145 2059
More info soon at: www.javiercura.net & www.mossbeynonjuckes.com

Moss Beynon Juckes: is an artist, musician, composer, movement director and workshop facilitator based in Berlin. She works internationally with performance, workshops, residencies and community projects. This has included touring “This Variation” by Tino Sehgal, collaborating with M.A.S. (Music, Art Science) in the U.K and collaborating with Javier Cura. She is currently developing OKO (formerly part of the polyphonic band Tralalka). Her work concentrates on musicality, integrating wellness, performance and symbolic transformative individual and social actions. www.mossbeynonjuckes.com www.mas-productions.com OKO: www.facebook.com/okoproject/?fref=mentions
Videos: http://vimeo.com/30143501 More videos: www.mossbeynonjuckes.com

Javier Cura is a teacher, visual artist and theatre director. You can find him at Fabrik Potsdam Tanztage in Germany, Farma Dance Theatre Festival, Alchemie Tango in Prague, C.I.R.A in Strasbourg, as well as in Contact Impro Festivals in Goettingen (Germany), or San Francisco (USA). He has also dedicated himself to researches in anthropological and sociological themes developing them in social theatre projects in Italy, Morocco and Germany. He has collaborated on a research on expression in Contact Improvisation and Movement at the Berlin Free University. He is devising a movement therapy for Sickle Cell carriers been tried at the Royal London Hospital. He is currently working on the project “The Ecological Body”. www.javiercura.net

Videos Javier Cura: Underwater dance: https://vimeo.com/246302562
Contact tango video: https://vimeo.com/110580854
Other videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zqASLdktg www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFejqW6DlVo&t=3s
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ITALIAN VERSION:

PASSI PRIMORDIALI, ACQUA, CONTATTO e MEDITAZIONE VOCALI…. tra il mare e le colline Marchigiane, Italia

DAL 21 AL 26 AGOSTO

Circondato dalle colline marchigiane, alberi da frutto, piante selvatiche, con vicino il mare, corsi d’acqua e una piscina, esploreremo:

MOVIMENTI PRIMORDIALI: ci immergeremo nei movimenti che attraverso milioni di anni di Evoluzione hanno disegnato i nostri corpi: camminare, correre, arrampicarsi sugli alberi, raccogliere frutti, trasportare pesi, accovacciarsi, appendersi, tirare, spingere, lanciare, ecc. Metteremo in relazione questi movimenti primordiali per ritrovarli alla base di discipline fisiche quali la Contact Improvisation, il Tai Chi, il Tango e altre forme d’espressione.

NUOTARE E DANZARE IN ACQUA: Ridurremo lo stress della forza di gravità sui nostri corpi muovendoci in mare e in piscina. Questa esperienza ci fornirà un ambiente sicuro per espandere il nostro vocabolario di movimenti. Trasporteremo, infine, questa esperienza sulla terra ferma.

IL SENSO DEL TATTO non è un opzionale per lo sviluppo e l’esistenza umana. Non c’è movimento senza tatto. In contatto con la natura, gli animali e gli esseri umani, espanderemo fisicamente e socialmente il nostro senso del tatto.

LA VOCE verrà sviluppata insieme ai movimenti della spina dorsale haitiana e alla Kundalini Yoga. Di questo modo la voce e il respiro diventeranno una meditazione quotidiana al risveglio o nella chiusura della giornata.

Per 5 GIORNI, (21-26 agosto), creeremo una micro comunità, raccogliendo frutti, muovendoci, ballando, cantando, cucinando, nuotando, condividendo storie accanto al fuoco e attraverso il movimento.

Questo workshop è aperto a persone di tutte le esperienze, interessate nel processo di creazione fisica come percorso di conoscenza, di guarigione, di comunicazione e di arricchimento personale. Il workshop rientra tra le attività del Progetto culturale e Festival Nottenera che si svolge a Serra de’ Conti (AN) e che quest’anno inaugura il nuovo format culturale “Ospite” che si svolgerà sabato 25 agosto. ( http://www.nottenera.it/2018/ )

PROGRAMMA comprende circa 6-7 ore di lavoro di workshop, concentrandosi su micro e macro movimenti, trekking, raccolta di frutta e occasionali Jams.

OSPITALITÀ: L’Agriturismo Il Canto del Bosco ci offre l’ambiente ideale per immergersi nella natura. Si trova nei pressi di Poggio San Marcello (AN), Italia, ed offre: camere da 2 a 5 persone + piscina + cucina + area grill per cucinare in modo indipendente + splendidi giardini circostanti, boschi e un asino. Si trova a circa 10 minuti di auto da Serra de’ Conti. (www.cantodelbosco.it )
Ci sono in totale 3 cucine nelle 3 case del Agriturismo. Ogni casa si prenderà cura dei propri pasti. Nel caso in cui fossimo un gruppo numeroso, potremmo concordare delle cene con un ristorante nelle vicinanze per 10-8 € per i vegetariani e 8-6 € per i vegetariani.
�DATE: dal Martedì 21 alle 16hrs alla Domenica 26 Agosto. È possibile partecipare per un soggiorno ridotto di non meno 3 giorni.
COSTO WORKSHOP: 170€ fino al 22 Luglio. 190€ dopo. Sconto per studenti, disoccupati e per chi ha già partecipato a precedenti workshops a Serra de’ Conti.

Il COSTO DELL’ ALLOGGIO va da 15€ a 30€ a notte /persona in base alla tipologia di sistemazione. Sono inoltre disponibili alcuni limitati posti tenda al costo di 8€ a notte/persona nel caso in cui si superassero i 15 iscritti.

INFO: Javier Cura javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com ph/whatsapp +49 176 2145 2059 www.javiercura.net
MOSS BEYNON JUCKES è un’artista, interprete e compositrice. Lavora nelle discipline di voce e corpo, teatro e musica. Le sue performance comprendono “The Passion of Lady Vendredi” con la MAS Productions al Teatro Roundhouse and Soho, Londra, “One Revolution, Respiration”, al Sophiensaelle di Berlino, “These Associations”, al Unilever Series al Tate Modern, Londra, e “This Variation” di Tino Sehgal – in Amsterdam, Berlino, Atene, e alla Documenta13 di Kassel 2012. Ha insegnato al “Multiple Bodies, Multiple Voices and Pathways” per Smash Berlin, al Hlasohled Voicescope – Centre for Voice, Praga, e alla Universität der Künste di Vienna e Berlino per gli studenti di belle arti. Fa parte del gruppo di musica balcanica “OKO”
www.mossbeynonjuckes.com www.mas-productions.com OKO: www.facebook.com/okoproject/?fref=mentions
Video: http://vimeo.com/30143501 Altri video su: www.mossbeynonjuckes.com
JAVIER CURA Dopo 20 anni di ricerca, sperimentazione e insegnamento, Javier Cura ha sviluppato un approccio metodico al movimento in generale, applicandolo a teatro fisico, arti marziali, Contact Improvisation e tango. In questo sistema è confluita la sua esperienza in diversi campi e forme d’arte, dalle arti visuali al teatro, alla bioenergetica, al movimento somatico e alla linguistica. È stato uno dei creatori del Contact tango, in cui si combinano le possibilità espressive della Contact Improvisation e del tango. Come performer, coreografo, artista o insegnante lo si ritrova al Fabrik Potsdam Tanztage in Germania, al Festival di teatro Farma Dance, ad Alchemie Tango Praga, al C.I.R.A. di Strasburgo, così come ai Contact Impro Festival di Friburgo, Goettingen (Germania), o San Francisco (USA). Ha collaborato con la Libera Università di Berlino (Freie Universität Berlin) a una ricerca sull’espressione nella Contact Improvisation e nel movimento. Si è dedicato a progetti di teatro antropologici e sociali in Italia, Marocco e in Germania. Attualmente lavora nel progetto “Il Corpo Ecologico” in collaborazione con alcuni ricercatori delle Nazione Unite.

Videos Javier: Underwater dance: https://vimeo.com/246302562 Contact tango video: https://vimeo.com/110580854

Other videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zqASLdktg www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFejqW6DlVo&t=3s

Notte Nera// 12-20 august// Night Fabulists in English

Posted on 30th June 2017 by javier in Uncategorised

“Telling stories that people believe in is the foundation of a bigger society.

When stories manage to make people cooperate and work together it gives them immense power.

An imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts power in the world.”

From “Sapiens, a brief history of Humankind” Y. Hariri

We are coming to realise, as human beings, that the stories we have believed in have caused dramatic changes on the whole Earth. Among other concepts we have believed in the separation between Man/Woman and Nature, and in that way, we created and then became ruled by a primitive form of industrial consumerism.

This extravagant belief is miles away from the reality we are now slowly coming to accept: that we have been created by, and we live because of our close interdependence with all living beings.

With movement, words, sounds, music and theatre, we will create and reconstruct our communal stories to nourish a deepening connection between ourselves and all things alive and not.

For one week, (12-20th August), we will create an ephemeral community, allowing the complexities and contradictions of connections to manifest, exercising a pluralistic open mind through sharing and mainly, through exploring diverse ways of storytelling.

Where does our stories meet and do they? How can we find moments of unity and moments of diversity and yet still nourish communication and acceptance?

To invent, rediscover and communicate our stories, we will draw upon: elements of contact improvisation, martial arts, voice movement and symbolic action, music, ecological concepts, stories composition, and shadow theatre.

PROGRAM

This week residency workshop will be developed partly in the farm house Il Canto del Bosco (www.cantodelbosco.it ), enjoying its gardens, pool and the forests that surround it. And partly in the rehearsal space in the medieval village of Serra de’ Conti, in between Le Marche hills in Italy.

The performance will be shared during Nottenera Festival in Serra de’ Conti (AN), Italy. (www.nottenera.it )

Note: It is not mandatory to participate in the final performance.

COSTS AND REGISTRATION

Cost: Early Bird registration up to July 22nd: 225€. After July 13th: 265€. Special discounts for students, unemployed and former participants to Nottenera workshops.

Note: There is no previous experience or a limit in age to participate

INFORMATION: fracarnevaliinator@gmail.com +39 3355384925 Francesca Carnevali

and javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com +49 176 2145 2059, when in Italy +39 3331623932

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ACCOMMODATION

The Farm house Il Canto del Bosco (www.cantodelbosco.it ) in Poggio San Marcello (AN), Italy, will host us and offers: bedrooms for 2 to 5 persons + pool + kitchen and grill were to cook our own lunch + beautiful surrounding gardens, forests and a donkey. It is only 10 mins by car to Serra de’ Conti.

The dinners have already been arranged at a cost of 9E for vegetarians and 8E for not vegetarians

The accommodation cost varies in relation to the bedroom: and it goes from 15€/night/person to 30€/night/person. Once we arrived to 15 participants there are also some limited number of tents possible for a cost of 8€/night/person. Please note that the cost of accommodation might vary a bit in relation to number of participants: more participants, less cost and the other way round

BIOGRAPHIES

JAVIER CURA

After 20 years of researching, experimenting and teaching, Javier Cura has developed a methodical approach to movement in general applying it specifically to Physical theatre, martial arts, Contact Improvisation and Tango teaching. He has condensed into this system his experience in different fields and art forms ranging from Visual arts, Theatre, Bioenergetics, Somatic Movement and Linguistics. He has been one of the generators of the Contactango form which combines the possibilities of Contact Improvisation and Tango. As a performer, choreographer, artist or teacher you can find him at Fabrik Potsdam Tanztage in Germany, Farma Dance Theatre Festival and Alchemie Tango in Prague, C.I.R.A in Strasbourg, as well as in Contact Impro Festivals in Freiburg, Goettingen (Germany), or San Francisco (USA). He has collaborated with the Berlin Free University on a research about expression in Contact Improvisation and Movement. He has also dedicated himself to researches in anthropological and sociological themes developing them in social theatre projects in Italy, Morocco and Germany. www.javiercura.net

Videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Py1SiCrco www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s20bn5Xej8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc

Contactango video: https://vimeo.com/110580854

Underwater contactango: https://vimeo.com/106280101

MOSS BEYNON JUCKES is an artist, performer and composer. She works with voice and body, theatre and music. Performances include “The Passion of Lady Vendredi” with Mas Productions at The Roundhouse and Soho Theatre, London, “One Revolution, Respiration”, Sophiensaelle, Berlin, “These Associations”, Unilever Series at the Tate Modern, London and “This Variation” by Tino Sehgal- in Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens, and in Kassels’Documenta13. She has taught “Multiple Bodies, Multiple Voices and Pathways” for Smash Berlin, Hlasohled Voicescope- Centre for Voice, Prague, Universität der Künste in Berlin and Vienna. She is part of the Balkan Band “Tralalka”. www.mossbeynonjuckes.com Video: http://vimeo.com/30143501

FRANCESCA CARNEVALI is a social and community theatre operator, graduated with a Master degree at Turin University in 2009. She conducts theatre workshops for business companies and in social communities. Since 2007 she works as an actress with the theatre company Fabula Rasa. In recent years she has devoted herself to her own research on the social value of dance Contact Improvisation.