Deep Blue Sea: Unwinding the Unknown
Workshop
with
Sabine Parzer
In the frame of OsterTanz 2024
Improvisation, Touch- based Improvisation, Somatics (incl. visionary cranio-sacral work, Feldenkrais, fascia release), Authentic Movement
The Deep Blue Sea: Unwinding the Unknown is an invitation to feel, move and release into the depth of our being. Finding movement, compositional creative choices, expression through voice, touch and full body engagement is the goal, but not a must. We invite a sense of universality, a deep inner space to connect and to source from. This workshop expresses my need to create a safe space, where we invite sensorial awareness, internal anatomical understanding, exploration of unconscious movement and emotional states, cellular body memories of different ages and developments. Through dance, movement and touch related practices, we can find a deeper sense of ourselves.
In this high-paced, crisis-ridden and unstable time, I believe we need spaces where we can find safety, inner anchors and orientation in ourselves and in community. We need a container to unwind tension from the outside as well as what has been stored inside. We invite our personal and collective wisdom to articulate in a non-linear way, in a way we can activate resources to contribute to the processing of these contents. This provides a schooling for ourselves and helps our nervous systems find rest. We work with anatomical and energetic structures such as the spine, pelvis and jaw, "domes and bowls" in touch and movement. The exercises provide the framework to work with “what is”, the process, movement and expression, which wants to unwind and transform.
The workshop can serve as a prerequisite for the Holistic Dance Teachers Training with Sabine Parzer, which starts on October 10, 2024 at Tanzfabrik, Berlin. Registration is already open, more information can be found here.
Thu 04.04.2024 / 18:00–19:00: Introduction & organizational information about the Holistic Dance Teachers Training by Sabine Parzer, Kreuzberg Studio 2
Thu 04.04.2024 / 18:00–19:00: Introduction & organizational information about the Holistic Dance Teachers Training by Sabine Parzer, Kreuzberg Studio 2
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in English, questions for clarification and small translations can also be done in German. The workshop combines elements of Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Somatics and Applied Anatomy. The exercises require a high degree of self-awareness and awareness of others, working with breath and partner work as well as optional touch and contact. Throughout the workshop a variety of music, sometimes no music, is used as an important part of the improvisation. The level is open, dancers with different abilities are welcome. Please let us know your accessibility needs in advance. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be provided for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg can be found here. For questions or further information, please contact Zoé Duflot at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Sabine Parzer
Sabine Parzer is head and founder of the Holistic Dance Institute and the artistic director and founder of Contact Festival Austria (2012-17). Her professional experience spans over 30 years of teaching, performing, choreographing and researching in the USA, Europe, Russia, Israel and Brazil. Sabine has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College Chicago in modern dance, and an education in Systemische und Integrative Bewegungslehre® (an extended Feldenkrais® Training). Her choreographies and improvisational scores have been performed since 1990 in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, amongst other cities. She teaches regularly at international dancefestivals such as Impulstanz, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Israeli Contact Festival, Moscow Contact Festival, Kontakt Budapest, Osterimprofestival Göttingen, Potsdamer Tanztage and at Tanzquartier Wien. www.holistic-dance.at
Film by Sabine Parzer & Krisztina Kerekes: Interconnections.
Film by Sabine Parzer & Krisztina Kerekes: Interconnections.