Water teaches a fundamental ground: victory comes to those who can face their struggles by letting themselves be defeated.

Matilde

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Before life there was water. Before tension, fluidity. Our body is made basically of water — the echoes of the primordial broth where life began remain a fundamental part of our existence. We are water, and in water we move for the first time: submerged in amniotic fluid we lay the foundations of our movement.

Keeping this memory alive is essential to evolve in the efficiency of movement. This movement rests on relaxation and on the organic flows of energy within the body. Relaxation is the ground of all movement, the ground of life, the ground of sensitivity.

Water teaches us a fundamental ground for learning in ni.butoh: victory comes to those who can face their struggles by letting themselves be defeated, gathering their strength in constancy and resilience.

Make yourself permeable to the dances that flood you.

what we’ll work on

• Organic movement and Noguchi Taiso exercises: an introduction to relaxed tension and the minimum tension necessary
• Active and passive fluid movement techniques
• Specific techniques from the marine realm: the wave, the seaweed, the fish, the octopus
• Improvisations on the techniques practiced
• Improvisations on fetal movement in amniotic fluid
• Improvisations on the marine imaginary: real and mythological

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