Eco Somatic Landing
Workshop
with
Ka Rustler
In the frame of SommerTanz 2023
Embedded in a complex network of environmental factors, biological and socio-cultural influences, we go through transforming processes. Movement is our primary source of action and only through movement we are able to decide with physical integrity.
In this workshop I want to share my research on the dynamics, creativity and intelligence of our remarkable bodily diversity, and illustrate how body cells and systems influence us and we influence them through touch, movement, neurobiological knowledge and our inner mindset.
Using accessible physical practice, improvisation and somatic experiencing we will integrate different aspects of our micro-landscapes (inside the studio), explore macro-territories (depending on the weather conditions also outside the studio) and find out in what form newly made aware areas of different body layers influence skills and movement qualities, our perception and how we create our understanding and experience of the world.
A journey where living, still, impetuously strong and sensually creative forces embody our dance and movement.
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in German and/or English and body language. There will be partner work, but touch is never mandatory. If participants are comfortable with touch, exercises on different qualities of touch, body connections and movement impulses will be part of the work. Ka works in this workshop with clear personal responsibility and mindful self-awareness and awareness of others. The physical intensity of the exercises, movements and dances can be adapted individually by the participants. Information about our location & studios in Kreuzberg, which are unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. ( For questions or further information regarding accessibility, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de .
In this workshop I want to share my research on the dynamics, creativity and intelligence of our remarkable bodily diversity, and illustrate how body cells and systems influence us and we influence them through touch, movement, neurobiological knowledge and our inner mindset.
Using accessible physical practice, improvisation and somatic experiencing we will integrate different aspects of our micro-landscapes (inside the studio), explore macro-territories (depending on the weather conditions also outside the studio) and find out in what form newly made aware areas of different body layers influence skills and movement qualities, our perception and how we create our understanding and experience of the world.
A journey where living, still, impetuously strong and sensually creative forces embody our dance and movement.
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in German and/or English and body language. There will be partner work, but touch is never mandatory. If participants are comfortable with touch, exercises on different qualities of touch, body connections and movement impulses will be part of the work. Ka works in this workshop with clear personal responsibility and mindful self-awareness and awareness of others. The physical intensity of the exercises, movements and dances can be adapted individually by the participants. Information about our location & studios in Kreuzberg, which are unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. ( For questions or further information regarding accessibility, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de .
Ka Rustler
Ka Rustler has been researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 35 years. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Teacher, co-chairwoman of the BMCAssociation and the Glia Association, second-generation pioneer of Contact Improvisation, member of the early collective Tanzfabrik Berlin and co-founder of the Authentic Movement Research Group Unwinding the Body. As a co-author of multifaceted productions, she performs with numerous artists and creates social and ecological contexts that are situated within a feminist understanding of embodied subjectivity. Ka teaches internationally, designs training curricula at private and state institutions and in her work combines methods and systems whose application and relevance interface performance, neuroscience and somatics in natural and urban environments. Living next to the forest, neighboring a farrowing brook, she is married, mother of two children, stewarding a permaculture garden with newts, violet carpenter bees as well as edible treasures and (potent smoothie) weeds.