Dancing on poetic ground - SRT as a foundation for composing with movement & voice
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Location: North Italy
DANCING ON POETIC GROUND
Skinner Releasing Technique as a foundation for composing with movement and voice
This workshop offers the practice of Skinner Releasing as an entry into dancing and making dances that may include our sound and voice.
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a poetic and experiential approach to movement, dance and creative process developed by American dance artist and pedagogue Joan Skinner (1924-2021), having been further evolved and refined since its advent in the early 60s.
SRT stimulates the process of letting go of unnecessary tension, releasing new possibilities in how we perceive and how we dance. Poetic imagery, shared partner studies and improvisational practices allow wide-ranging and nuanced kinaesthetic experiences of movement, often providing a sense of wholeness. Allowing movement to happen, awareness as a first step to change, and playfulness are some of the essential principles of this experiential and process-oriented practice. Engaging with suppleness, economy, suspension and a multi-directional alignment provides the experience of ease, strength, presence and freedom, in both movement and stillness.
Mornings:
Each day starts with a Skinner Releasing class in which dancing becomes a way to open the body and to become receptive to our intuition and imagination.
Afternoons:
Inspired by the morning Releasing practice, the afternoon sessions offer ways into making dances, using voice, words and movement. Emphasis is given to the sensuous dancing body and our intuition, guiding us in what wants to emerge and become material. Approaching vocalization as another kinaesthetic dimension of dancing, we investigate the spectrum of breath, sound, pre-verbal expression and words, and how to direct our spontaneity and the fluidity of receptivity. Attention is given to being in relationship with the material as we create and perform it, and as it is living within the composition.
About the project
Landscape for Composition will be divided into 4 Intensive Weeks of 7 days each, distributed from November 20225 to May 2026. Every day will be structured with 6 hours of scheduled practice with 1 ½ hours lunch break.
17-23 November 2025 Lilo Stahl
12-18 January 2026 Bettina Neuhaus
23-29 March 2026 Vera Mantero
11-17 May 2026 Kirsty Simson
Fee: The cost for each week of study is € 240,-. It includes 27 hours of workshop and two days of co-facilitation.
The cost of the entire study program is € 960,-. This includes 4 weeks of studying with invited teachers for a total of 108 hours plus all the other research activities that will be shared with the group
How to participate
Application will open on 5th of May via the application form
The selection is made with the only aim of creating an environment that supports learning and to gather a group of people that have a similar understanding of the practice.
There are only 20 spots available for the entire program. A few spots will be available for attending only 1,2 or 3 weeks. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire program.
Registration closes end of July 2025
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