Moving From Touch | A Somatic Movement Workshop Series with Tuva Hildebrand

For all levels of experience, background and abilityWarmly welcome to a series of four workshops on embodied anatomy, sensory awareness, guided touch and movement improvisation with Tuva Hildebrand - drawing from BodyMind Centering, Alexander Technique and the work of Eva Karczag.How are you listening? Are you thinking or actually listening to what is there - allowing it to move you? What is knowledge? How do we learn about ourselves, each other and the world through our sensing body?Time: Sundays May 3, 10, 24 and June 14th.Where: Alma Söderberg StudioIn this slower in-depth workshop series we use guided touch through hands-on partnering to bring you into a meditative state of deep presence through movement and dance, relating to other humans and the more than human. We listen to and follow our breath, weight, cells, organs, skeletal landscape and senses. We listen to the materiality of our body and the environment it relates to on a micro and macro level.Methods we use are inspired by the work of somatic dance pioneer Eva Karczag, BodyMind Centering, Contact Improvisation and Alexander Technique, among other techniques. You will experience embodied anatomy, visual imagery, poetic verbal guidance, hands-on (bodywork inspired) partnering, solo and group dance improvisation, reflecting and conversating.Through touch and movement, we practice shifting our experience from analytical and word-based thought into an embodied perception of the materiality of yourself and your surrounding. We practice listening deeply to what is there and daring to be in a place of unknowing and unpredictability; of allowing more possibilities for learning, moving and choice-making – for dancing - to be available.We listen and trust the body’s intelligence, archive and process in intimate meeting with the world it is being formed by and forming all the time.The exercises offer tools to release unnecessary tension, access strength and move effortlessly in a physically and psychologically sustainable way. You will notice how you use your attention and how it affects all of your cells in all of your body.Releasing tension and listening deeply to what is there can open up an unrestricted creativity, a playfulness, a language, ideas and images that are sitting deeply in your subconscious - as well as a more non-violent way of relating.--Please note:Every other Sunday our exercises will lead into solo movement explorations and every other Sunday our explorations will be integrated with contact improvisation inspired forms of moving.–-You can sign-up for a single class or attend all classes. Note that we will be working through the anatomy of the body with progression - focusing on different parts each class (such as the spine, pelvis, skull, ribbasket, heart, lungs, limbs and more) - even though there is always a holistic perspective.--Cost:Single workshop: 300krAll four workshops: 950kr10 class clip card: 1500kr5 class clip card: 2000krA clip card with PIS (10 or 5 classes) can be used on any of our classes (including this workshop series).Info here: http://plattformimprovisationsomatik.com/malmoTo register to secure a spot sign-up here: https://forms.gle/D8m5FXRx8Ri3QSav5——Somatic practice is an umbrella term mounted by Thomas Hanna in 1975 referring to alternative western bodymind practices such as Alexander technique, Feldenkrais, Ideokinesis, BodyMind Centering, and more, which are all influenced by eastern practices such as Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Ji Chuan, Zen Buddhism, Tantra, Vedanta, eastern medicine and philosophy, and western medicine, western philosophy such as phenomenology and western psychology. During 1960 until today dancers in a wide range of communities have integrated these practices into their dance training and practice into what can be called somatic dance improvisation.Tuva Hildebrand is teaching somatic dance methods in the lineage of female somatic dance pioneer Eva Karczag, Alexander Technique, BodyMind Centering, Ideokinesis, Skinner Releasing Technique and Open Source Forms.Contact Improvisation is a dance form developed in the 1970's in the US by Steve Paxton and fellow dancers. It has its base in the martial art Aikido, Zen meditation and post-modern dance but has evolved since then until today into different forms. The core of contact improvisation is to investigate how to allow yourself to be moved by gravity, while listening to the contact point between you and the floor, wall or another body.The contact improvisation form Tuva Hildebrand is teaching is strongly connected to the US lineage, in the post-Judson and Paxton legacy, having studied with K.J. Holmes, Bradley Teal Ellis, Margaret Paek, Nina Martin and Paul Singh among others.More info about the teacher: http://tuvahildebrand.com