Of Body and Words

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The National Dance Center Bucharest returns to Timisoara and invites you to a contemporary dance workshop, coordinated by Valentina De Piante Niculae!

Valentina de Piante:

“Sometimes, when I need to write about a workshop, I cannot find the right words. Sometimes the body doesn’t really need letters, because it knows more than language and knows that words often tell lies that are hard to believe.
The language of the body is different.

You will begin by patiently waiting for a signal, maybe a feeling of emptiness, helplessness, conflict with others or even yourself. Can be a movement that creates a certain sensation and the body starts building its own language.

We will work with the material brought to the surface by the body, a material of movements… these, only these, give birth to words, which the body believes, sensations not grasped until now, images, maybe the need to create a vibration inside the body through your limbs, a growing necessity.

We will discover the way a conscious body is increasingly creative and how a sensitive body gives birth to ideas and themes that can be performed. I propose that in my lectures, before anything, we should open a waiting space, a listening space, so that afterwards we create an order in the body, focusing our attention on the basic organization, on the movement schemes and breathing schemes. That is why I start with the Awareness through Movement lessons from the Feldenkrais® method, which are a way of knowing the kinesthetic possibilities, the abilities related to the body and awaken possibilities of moving the bones on several planes. You will work with different movements, with small gestures that become explosive.

Immersing inside the body also means immersing in the subconscious, the organic process that makes the personal imagination concrete.”

The workshop is part of the project CNDB on tour in Timișoara.