To dance the slightest thing, only the necessary. In this state, without dance there is no life.

Matilde

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When a new dance arises from the mystery of existence, it is born with its own breathing, its own breath, which intertwines with the dancer’s breathing in a constant negotiation. The habits, fears and desires of the person dancing contaminate the breathing of the dance. This makes it hard to listen and adapt to the changes of that breathing, even to miss the moment when one dance ends and another begins.

The body is the lung of the dance. In the lung-body we remove the breathing of the person dancing, in search of a dance that keeps the body alive, without a person. A ritual dance to cleanse the body of our own breathing. After overcoming the first fear of the emptiness of breath, the Person can grow calm and connect, through dance, with a subtler form of life.

In this way we train the mechanisms needed for the person’s breathing to make more and more room for the breathing of the dance. We allow ourselves to be affected by the dance in the very mechanism that keeps us alive.

what we’ll work on

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• Breathing as the engine and material of dance
• Birth and death of the dance
• Expansion and contraction — the phases of breathing
• Shared breathing and counter-breathing
• The lung-body: dancing without the person’s breathing
• The 12 points of breathing
• Breathing as a dramatic element

upcoming dates