Training

Slowing down together.
Releasing the holding. Unlocking the locked. Experimenting in the zone of soft engagement.
What can we observe in the process of slowing down, when we are prolonging the intervals between activation and the restful digestion of what happened?
How does taking time change our perception and then our further action?

The questions of this exploration and bodily practice arise from my project research, “Holding space for contact,” where I am exploring a more sense-body-oriented way of being present with each other and with oneself and navigating through the engagement, disengagement, enhancement, distortion, and flexibility of our perception of our inner and outer worlds.

Some of the things we will be exploring: the oscillations between activation and rest, rhythms of expansion and contraction, sensing and activating ourselves from a more fluid state and a more solid state, through the lens of a Body-Mind Centering® somatic movement system we will look into our fluids and bones, we will work with embodying those systems, we will work with touch and movement, we will share about our experiences verbally, trying to come up with less analytical/linear, more creative, poetic, symbolic, inter-personal ways of sharing.

Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) is an experiential, movement-based research method that helps us to sense deeper into the body and move with attunement to the body’s anatomical systems. Going within our body brings us into a close contact with our organic complexity and intelligence, offering us integral support and enrichment of our moving, thinking, and emotional selves. By using movement, voice, breath, anatomical information, and touch we are invited to sense a unique expression of each bodily system, deepen the relationship with our living body, and expand our vitality and capacities for being present, moving, healing, and relating to others.

Anja Bornšek is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and a somatic movement educator based in Slovenia. She graduated in contemporary dance from Salzburg Contemporary Dance Academy SEAD, holds a Masters degree of Contemporary Dance Education from Frankfurt University HfMDK and a Somatic Movement Educator’s certification for Body-Mind Centering method. She creates her own work and teaches at various independant venues as well as institutions such as Zagreb Dance Academy, MA for Contemporary Dance Education – HfMDK Frankfurt, Tanzhaus nrw among other places. In the last 10 years Anja has also been deeply invested in facilitating and developing an audience format called Physical Introduction, a pedagogic/artistic project initiated by prof. Ingo Diehl. Through it she is creating a space for practicing embodied watching and fostering more experience based conversations about “dance” in the performing arts. She has been facilitating Physical Introduction in places like Tanzhaus nrw, Tanz im August, Konzerthaus Berlin, Saarländische Staatstheater, HfMDK Frankfurt, Sommer Szene Salzburg, Tanz NRW, Videonale Bonn and other places. In 2021 Anja received the Ksenija Hribar Award for an emerging choreographer in Slovenia.

9.11.2024, 11:00 – 15:00 (with a 30 min break in between)
10.11.2024, 11:00 – 15:00 (with a 30 min break in between)
Tanzhaus, Lagergasse 57, Graz Austria.

For all curious dancers, movers, dance teachers, body-workers, and all with some kind of movement practice.

Please bring some comfortable warm clothes, water, paper, and pen.

Registration: kontakt@tanz-graz.at